The funeral procession for a pilot, who died after a plane crash in south Shropshire, will depart from the airport which he owned in Welshpool.

A couple who went on a break for over a week to Welshpool while their pet dog starved to death at home have both been jailed for 12 weeks and banned for life from keeping a dog.

Residents of a village on the Powys/Shropshire border are being left ‘terrified’ by cars speeding since the opening of a new bypass, it was today claimed.

Another two Little Chef restaurants in Shropshire and Mid Wales have been boarded up after bosses of the roadside restaurant chain announced they would be shutting nearly half of its outlets.

Anti-social behaviour has been highlighted as the scourge of town centres across Shropshire and Mid Wales on a new-look police website.

There were ‘unbelievable’ scenes in Welshpool when Sky Sports pundit Chris Kamara came out of retirement to help the struggling side.

Fresh tributes were today paid to a pilot killed in a plane crash in Mid Wales.

Controversial plans for a 1,000-cow ‘super dairy’ on the outskirts of Welshpool will be decided by the Welsh government.

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The families of two men killed in a plane crash in Mid Wales today paid tribute to them.

An investigation into a light aircraft crash in Mid Wales which killed both men on board could take months, officials said today.

Investigators today appealed for people taking photographs at the time a plane crashed near Welshpool to come forward as they continue to piece together how the tragedy happened.

Fears were today growing that an ex-easyJet pilot was the second man killed when a plane crashed into a mountain on the Shropshire/MidWales border.

An urgent investigation was under way today into how a small plane crashed into the side of a mountain on the Shropshire/Mid Wales border in apparently perfect flying conditions.

An airport boss was one of two people killed after their plane crashed into the side of a mountain on the Shropshire/ Mid Wales border.

Two people were killed this afternoon after a plane crashed on a mountain near Welshpool on the Shropshire/Mid Wales border.

Residents were left walking through raw sewage after waste spilled onto the streets of Welshpool.

Sky television cameras are to film a Welshpool Town football match this month – with a former Premier League star talking to the field for the club, it was revealed today.

A crunch meeting to discuss funding the running of leisure centres in parts of Shropshire will take place tomorrow, amid claims some could see their budgets cut by up to 40 per cent.

Tributes were today flooding in to a 14-year-old cyclist who died after tragic road accident between Oswestry and Welshpool.

A 14-year-old cyclist has died following a collision with a car between Oswestry and Welshpool, police said today.

Struggling Welshpool Town have a new fan – in Sky TV football pundit Jeff Stelling. The Lilywhites, languishing second from bottom in the Spar Mid Wales League, had little festive cheer, with a 10-1 hammering at Waterloo Rovers followed by a 7-1 beating at home to Llansantffraid Village

A heritage railway running between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion needs to raise £100,000 to install automatic barriers following a health and safety probe.

Shropshire and Mid Wales were today on flood alert with more rain expected over the next 24 hours – as residents started to count the cost of fierce winds which lashed the region.

A tame falcon has been found in a village near Oswestry – and is believed to have journeyed about 100 miles to get there.

An estate agents has been fined £75,000 after an elderly maintenance contractor died when he fell from a roof while carrying out work for them.

A car parts company based in Shropshire and Mid Wales which has secured a £12 million contract with Vauxhall Motors will be expanding to Wrexham.

A headteacher has resigned from her post just months after her school was placed in special measures by inspectors.

A farmer who stole 860 pairs of ladies’ knickers from washing lines in Mid Wales has been given a curfew after he admitted that he needed help.

A 48-year-old man who admitted stealing ladies’ underwear from various washing lines in Welshpool has had his case adjourned for sentencing.