Twenty jobs are to be created when a Shropshire village’s only pub, which closed five years ago, reopens in June following a £75,000 investment.

One of the biggest bonfire and firework displays in Shropshire has been axed after 10 years.

About 2,000 people gathered for fireworks and to see a 40ft high birthday cake made out of wood being burned to the ground to mark the 10th anniversary of the Welshampton Festival of Fire.

Thousands of people were expected to watch a 40ft high birthday cake made out of wood being burned to the ground today at an annual bonfire extravaganza in Shropshire.

A grade II-listed country house set in 26 acres in Shropshire has gone on the market with a price tag of £1.25 million.

Up to 20 jobs could be created as part of plans to breathe new life into a village pub in rural Shropshire which has stood empty for four years.

Company bosses applying to extend the life of a Shropshire landfill site say 70 jobs would be put at risk if they were forced to close the site.

Parish councillors have objected to plans to extend the life of a north Shropshire landfill site.

Wind speeds in Shropshire reached between 50 and 60mph last night, and council engineers were called out to deal with 17 roads blocked by blown down trees or branches.

A £300,000 scheme to breathe new life into a town centre and plans for 18 homes in a rural village were due to be discussed at two public meetings in north Shropshire today.

A royal entourage from a southern African country – including its Queen – descended on a north Shropshire village to visit an ancestor’s grave.

A petition is to be launched calling for traffic calming measures in a north Shropshire village where part of a house was demolished when it was hit by machinery, which fell from a lorry.

Crowds descended on a north Shropshire village as a “secretly-built” wooden structure was set alight as part of a spectacular sculptural bonfire which sent flames shooting into the night sky.

Shropshire Council chiefs have said they are happy with the number of people who took part in the first day of a plastic bottle recycling trial, as part of the county’s new kerbside collection service.

Traffic travelling through a north Shropshire village where a 19-tonne piece of machinery fell off the back of a lorry and smashed into a house needs to be slowed down, councillors have been warned.

Pictures taken after a 20-tonne piece of machinery fell off a lorry and into a Shropshire house.

A 20-tonne piece of machinery fell off the back of a lorry and smashed into the side of a house in Shropshire.