A thieving window cleaner was caught red-handed stealing from one of his customers in Shropshire – after a suspicious neighbour filmed him leaning through an open bedroom window.

A £40,000 cannabisIS factory was discovered during a police swoop on a house in Shropshire.

Arsonists smashed the window of a parked car in Telford before setting it alight, police said today.

A teenager has been left devastated after yobs left her car unfit to drive as they tried to steal it from her home in Telford.

A man has been given an indeterminate jail sentence for assaulting his victim with a pick axe handle leaving him with serious injuries.

Three men were arrested today on suspicion of murdering a 24-year-old man who died 18 months after he was attacked in Telford.

Council snoopers will be sifting through bins in Telford’s Woodside and parts of Madeley in a pilot scheme to increase the authority’s recycling quota.

Fears a killer shrimp sweeping Britain had reached Telford were allayed this afternoon by Government experts.

Residents of a Telford housing estate have hit out at Severn Trent Water after the company failed to fix a leaking pipe which has left a pool of filthy water outside their homes for more than two weeks.

Council bosses are being urged to back the closure of two infant schools in Telford to pave the way for the creation of new primaries.

Four derelict homes in Shropshire have been bulldozed after a suspected arson blaze ripped through the buildings.

A man was today in hospital being treated for a fractured skull and broken bones after he was assaulted in Telford, police said.

Thieves have stolen more than £150 in donations from a Shropshire grandmother who was raising the cash for soldiers injured on the front line.

A fire which killed a six-year-old Shropshire girl and her father was not started deliberately, police said today. Kay-Leigh Cooke and her father Andrew Lineton, 33, died in the blaze in Briarwood, Brookside, Telford, on Sunday.

A Telford police officer cleared of attacking a sleeping man as he lay in bed with his baby is still suspended from duty, police chiefs said today.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after fire crews spent almost two-and-a-half hours tackling a blaze at a Shropshire home.

A Telford housing estate is to be transformed by a £45 million scheme which will see new shops and homes being built, it was revealed today.

A drunk who launched an unprovoked attack against a man in a Shropshire pub has been jailed for 30 months after being told by a judge he was “not fit” to live among society.

A Shropshire family was forced to melt snow in their bath and use it to flush the toilet and to cook their dinner after pipes in their kitchen froze in the bitterly cold weather.

A Shropshire student has been hailed a hero by police after saving a man’s life when he threatened to jump off a bridge in Telford.

A 24-year-old man accused of murdering a Telford factory worker today appeared in court.

A 24-year-old man accused of murdering a Telford factory worker appeared in court this afternoon.

A taxi driver was hit in the face with a brick and another had his eyebrow “bitten off” in a vicious attack in Telford. Taxi bosses are warning some parts could become “no-go areas”.

At least £10,000 worth of fake computer games, DVDs and CDs were discovered by police following a dawn raid on a Telford home.

MULTI-MILLION pound plans have been unveiled to build homes and shops on Telford’s Woodside estate.

A 25-year-old burglar from Telford who targeted 14 homes in a three-month crime wave has been jailed for nearly three years.

Letter: I have some sympathy with Diane Parks of Horsehay, and her dealings with Elite Management Ltd regarding a parking ticket.

A Shropshire family fled their home after an electrical box outside the house caught fire.

A 23-year-old woman was injured in a terrifying ordeal in which she was grabbed and shoved to the ground by a man who accosted her on a footpath in Telford.

Former Shropshire paedophile Raymond Hewlett, who is wanted for questioning by detectives working for Madeleine McCann’s parents, is close to death, it was reported today.