Newport is a healthy market town that can withstand a new supermarket being built, a planning inquiry has heard.

Creative media students at TCAT have made a video promoting the borough’s high streets.

Council bosses deliberately shunned plans for a supermarket in Newport in a bid to support an application for a store on their own land, a public inquiry has heard.

A 60-year-old man was taken to hospital with facial injuries after a crash outside a school in Newport today.

Firefighters were called to a care home in Telford in the early hours of today after a patient hoist caught fire.

Telford’s ice rink will close on May 27 for work on a £4 million refurbishment scheme to begin.

The Prime Minister this afternoon paid tribute to a 25-year-old airman from Telford who was killed while on active service in Afghanistan.

Arthur Hubbard doesn’t count. The 62-year-old from Knighton, who has worked and paid into the system since he was 15, is unemployed.

Fears over speeding in Shifnal are growing after more than 160 cars were clocked in one hour breaking the speed limit along one road, according to a road safety group.

The family of an RAF serviceman from Telford killed in Afghanistan has paid tribute to a ‘tremendous’ son who will they miss forever.

A public inquiry into controversial plans for a supermarket on an industrial estate in Newport started today.

Drivers faced tailbacks of almost two miles on the M54 near Telford after a car crashed into the central reservation.

It took them nearly 53 thours to complete and even the cover of darkness failed to stop them.

The body of a 25-year-old airman from Telford who was killed in Afghanistan will be repatriated on Thursday, the MoD said this afternoon.

Wellington will now have its own version of the Olympic torch relay after a bid to bring the real torch to town was scuppered.

Snow hit parts of Shropshire today as the county continued to shiver through spring.

The family of an airman from Shropshire killed in Afghanistan were today attempting to come to terms with the loss of a ‘loving, sensitive young man’.

Shropshire county cricketer Martin David Delaney, has appeared before magistrates accused of plotting to break into a Telford house.

Hundreds of scouts from across Shropshire will be getting out and about this week for a modern-day ‘bob-a-job’ challenge.

A man was hit with his own mountain bike and left unconscious after an attack by two men in Telford.

An airman from Telford who was killed in Afghanistan was ‘extremely popular, courageous and hugely respected’, military chiefs said today.

Robbers fled with hundreds of pounds in cash after threatening staff with a crowbar during a terrifying raid at a bookmakers in Telford, police said today.

Telford’s new look ice rink will reopen in October after undergoing a £4 million transformation, council bosses revealed today.

A 25-year-old airman from Telford was one of two British servicemen who were shot dead by members of the Afghan police force in Helmand, the Ministry of Defence said today.

Fears were today raised over the way Telford & Wrekin Council hire new employees after only one person was interviewed for a £109,000 post.

A controversial £200 million shake-up of secondary education in Telford – which would see six borough schools bulldozed – could be reviewed, it emerged today.

Fundraisers were today celebrating after completing a trek up and down the Wrekin – an astonishing 36 times.

Hundreds of jobs have either been created or safeguarded by local companies that have won Olympic contracts valued at up to £25 million, it was revealed this afternoon.

Six men and a woman have appeared in court after more than £100,000 of cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin and cannabis resin was seized in Shropshire.

An 11-year-old boy realised his dream yesterday as he reached the top of The Wrekin. Ellis Thompson, of Hadley, Telford, who was born with a serious heart defect, was said to have loved the experience.