A woman was trapped in the wreckage of her car for more than an hour after it collided with a lamp post in Telford.

A woman in her 20s was airlifted to hospital with multiple injuries after the car she was driving flipped over on the A49 near Ludlow.

A soldier on leave has been hailed as a lifesaver after keeping a woman afloat in the River Severn in Shropshire as he tried to rescue her from drowning.

A teenage farm worker has died after apparently falling into a grain silo in Shropshire. The 18-year-old has been named locally as Hugh Jones.

A five-year-old boy was airlifted to hospital after suffering serious injuries in a head-on crash in Telford.

Extra ambulance crews are being drafted in as the emergency services in Shropshire brace themselves for one of busiest weekends of the year.

The driver of a car that overturned on a country lane near Shrewsbury today has escaped injury.

Just one in ten 999 calls made to Shropshire’s ambulance service is for a life-threatening emergency, according to latest figures.

Police today issued a fresh appeal for witnesses following a road collision near Ellesmere in which a man died.

Ninety-nine per cent of emergency calls for ambulances in Shropshire are answered within five seconds, according to a new report. And almost all of those calls are answered within one second.

New Year’s Eve celebrations in Shropshire sparked nearly 150 emergency calls to the ambulance service.

A young child has been taken to hospital in Birmingham for specialist care after a crash on the Shropshire/Herefordshire border.

Ambulance chiefs have withdrawn personal issue emergency response bags from paramedics in Shropshire because of safety fears.

A woman has died and two people were taken to hospital following a two-car crash in Shropshire today.

Five people were injured and traffic gridlocked following a spate of accidents across Shropshire.

A 32-year-old man called the ambulance control centre for Shropshire with a 999 request for an ambulance because he “couldn’t walk after dancing too much”, it was revealed today.

A 23-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl had to be rescued from the upper floor of a Telford block of flats after a fire broke out following what police suspect may be an arson attack.

Half of the callouts over the last two months to people in difficulty in open water in the West Midlands were in Shropshire, ambulance bosses revealed today.

Two motorists had to be cut free from the wreckage of their vehicles following a collision on a main road in north Shropshire.

An open letter to NHS bosses in the West Midlands claims that spending £10,000 on a research project to find out how what makes leaders “cool” is morally and ethically wrong.

A former Shropshire ambulance worker has launched a website to expose what he feels is an appalling waste of NHS money on a research project to find out what makes a leader “cool”.

West Midlands Ambulance Service today defended spending £10,000 on a project to find out what makes a leader “cool”, after it was condemned on a union website.

A woman has died and four others were injured following a two-car smash close to the Shropshire/Staffordshire border.

Motorists suffered rush-hour delays when a lorry jack-knifed after colliding with a car causing chaos. Drivers had to be diverted through narrow streets.

A cyclist was taken to hospital suffering from serious head injuries and a suspected broken leg today after he was in collision with a car while riding at a roundabout in Telford.

Three people were taken to hospital today after two smashes on roads in the region.

A bus carrying Shrewsbury Town players back from a match was involved in a collision with a car on the M6, the manager said today.

Motorists faced delays when a car was severely damaged by fire on a main road into Shrewsbury.

Ambulance response targets in Shropshire have been met only once in 10 months, a report to county health chiefs has revealed.

A lorry overturned and slid into a ditch on a Shropshire road after the driver said he had to take evasive action to avoid a crash with an overtaking vehicle.