Drivers, businesses and farmers in Shropshire spoke with one voice today and demanded action on the ever-increasing cost of fuel.

Hundreds of people were taking part in events across Mid Wales today to mark St David’s Day, the celebration of the patron saint of Wales.

Pupils and staff were forced to evacuate a school in Mid Wales today following a suspected gas leak.

Rating: *** It’s been some years since I last enjoyed the food of Steve and Kerry Houlker. The proprietors of the Upper Rectory, at Berriew, writes Andy Richardson.

Welshpool Air Show could be axed this year because of a lack of air displays, it emerged today.

Part of a house has collapsed on to a busy main road on the Shropshire/Powys border.

Organisers of Welshpool Carnival are being forced to reschedule this year’s event because of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, it was revealed today.

One of Shropshire’s oldest residents, who had family links to the Appleby’s Cheese dynasty has died peacefully, just three days before her 105th birthday.

A major employer from the Mid Wales is to close its centre in the region and move its operations to Wrexham.

Jobs could be lost at one of the main employers in Welshpool because it is undergoing ‘re-structuring’, bosses said today.

More than 500 people turned out to pay their respects to Mid Wales Airport owner Bob Jones who died in a plane crash on the Shropshire and Mid Wales border.

The funeral procession for a pilot who died after a plane crash on the Shropshire-Wales border 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.

Will wonders never cease? I’m happy to report that my recent absence from your teatime routine had nothing to do with my usual medical quagmire and everything to do with sunning myself under African skies – two weeks in The Gorgeous Gambia and I’m refreshed, full of zest and raring to get ranting!

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.