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Emergency services at Upper Road in Shrewsbury after a car collided with a building, causing a gas leak

Gas leak sparks evacuation after car collides with house in Shrewsbury

Welshpool Hospital bed push protest through Welshpool Town centre on Saturday, November 14. Photo: Phil Blagg

Hundreds march through Powys town in protest over hospital bed cuts

Upper Road, Shrewsbury - car into home causing gas leak

Live Homes evacuated after vehicle crashes into Shrewsbury property - live

Chester Zoo Lantern and Lights Trail

Winter light trail just 1 hour from Shrewsbury might be the UK’s best

Kevin Berkoe of Shrewsbury Town celebrates after scoring a goal to make it 1-0

Shrewsbury Town make dream start to new era with Berkoe brilliance

Simon Budd

Plus Burglar caught after drunken walk with crossbow on his back is jailed

A frosty start in Rushbury, Shropshire taken by Peter Steggles

When do new cold health alerts begin in Shropshire?

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Sports reporters Luke Powell and Lewis Cox with their video verdict after the first press conference from new Shrewsbury Town owner Scott Davidson, with Brad Friedel and Liam Dooley also speaking to the media.

WATCH: Video verdict as new Shrewsbury Town owners meet press and fans

Owain was joined by Dame Sarah Storey.

BBC presenter cheered through Shropshire as fundraising tops £1m

Shrewsbury Town fans have reacted to the huge new American takeover

'I am feeling very positive': Shrewsbury Town fans react to takeover

The larger radome on Titterstone Clee Hill, Ludlow is to be decommissioned and a smaller one is being build nearby.
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Construction under way on new 'golf ball’ at Shropshire radar station

Business

Vic Gidney outside Runlates in Shrewsbury

Meet the instructor behind boutique Shrewsbury pilates studio

Festive warming spa day for two in Birmingham has 55 per cent off

Telford Tigers

Golf course latest to sponsor Telford Tigers

Breaking ground at Stadium Point in Shrewsbury are (from left): Kieren Turner-Owen from FDC and the team from Morris & Company Phil Griffiths, Liz Lowe, Chris Morris, Pete Allworth, Tom Potts and Shay Austin

Work starts on next phase of development at Shrewsbury business park

Nostalgia

How Midlands homes looked in the 1980s: 27 pictures full of memories

29 pictures of Shropshire & Black Country women doing their bit in WW2

31 pictures of Shrewsbury Town fans from 2011 to 2022

New book captures 1930s Midlands: See some of the fascinating pictures

Shropshire regiment soldiers tackling an outbreak of plague in Hong Kong in 1894

Shropshire's 'Foreign Legion': The soldiers who rarely saw home

Volunteers stripping the plane this week

Cold War plane takes to the road to its new home near Bridgnorth

Education

Microsoft is racing to fix a global outage

Shropshire’s councils, schools and police all hit by Microsoft outage
Millions of people across the world have been affected by the issues
Dominic Robertson

What's On

Government faces calls to stagger age of consent after Russell Brand allegations

Woman who alleges she was raped by Russell Brand waives her anonymity

Thailand Eurovision Song Contest

The Philippines announced as winner of inaugural Eurovision Song Contest Asia

Sebastian Croft wearing a white t-shirt with brown blazer and light-wash jeans

Sebastian Croft believes being gay could be an advantage in The Traitors

David Walliams

BBC removes Room On The Broom film featuring David Walliams

Sir Elton John and the King in the Apple studios as they recorded a radio show together

Elton John jokes ‘I’m still sitting now’ as King picks star’s hit for radio show

Recommended

Honda's Super N takes a refreshingly different approach to defining a city car - and it's incredibly endearing

Honda Super N review: Why this funky little EV completely won me over

TK Maxx has beauty gift sets which could all make lovely Christmas presents. Stock image.

Forget candles as TK Maxx has beauty gifts worth giving instead

Fashion and homeware feature in TK Maxx’s Christmas campaign. We set out to find three gifts for £50, including delivery.

Three TK Maxx Christmas gifts for £50 with 4p to spare

Coleen Rooney teams up with her mum for new Primark collection packed with party-season outfits

Coleen Rooney’s new Primark collection is made for party season

Politics

Wrekin MP Mark Pritchard challenges the PM on defence spending

People on benefits are pricing workers out the housing market, says MP

Amelia Jones, the Reform UK candidate in the Battlefield by-election

Reform candidate accused of posting comment about Starmer and Hitler

Row as Telford and Wrekin local plan clears latest hurdle

Cllr Gareth E Jones of the Powys Independents group, represents Llanelwedd at Powys County Council.

Powys safeguarding report timing criticised as decision comes too late

Powys County Council's headquarters in Llandrindod Wells. From Google Streetview.

Interviews for director of Powys Corporate Services role

Cllr Chloe Masefield - Liberal Democrat- represents Crickhowell, Cwmdu and Tretower. PCC.

AI will not replace humans in Powys Social Services

Wellington Town Council met on Tuesday, November 10

Town council has been using wrong law to exclude people for six years

Farming

Will on his new tenancy

Staffordshire’s ‘Farmer of The Year’ branches out with new tenancy

The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) is hosting a series of local winter farming conferences across Wales during November.

New FUW Winter Farming Conference

The virus was detected for the first time on the Shropshire and Mid Wales border.

Breaking First UK cases of midge-borne virus found in Shropshire cattle

The NFU Cymru Next Generation Development Group on the steps of Parliament

NFU Cymru Next Generation Development Group visits London

NFU Cymru writes to Welsh MPs seeking support for ban on Brazilian meat imports

NFU Cymru calls on UK Government to ban Brazilian meat imports

One of the early entries for the vintage tractor and implements auction on November 21.

Strong entry for Halls’ sale

Opinion

Mark Andrews: Brand’s fairweather friends and Putin’s kind offer Mark Andrews

PICTURE FROM THE ARCHIVE: Swooping just feet above the grass, a biplane from the famous Rothmans Aerobatic Team threads the needle beneath a low bunting line held aloft by two figures - including one dressed in a monkey suit on the right - during rehearsals at Halfpenny Green Airfield in June 1973. Organised by the Barnstormers Flying Circus as a summer replacement for the Goodyear Air Races, the display promised a crowd-pleasing mix of daredevil precision flying and slapstick comedy both on the ground and in the skies. Do you remember watching the Rothmans Aerobatic Team or the Barnstormers Flying Circus in action at Halfpenny Green in the 1970s?

Phone bans, fireworks and more – letters, plus 1973 air display

PICTURE FROM THE ARCHIVE: Captured from the air in 1973 by Beckbury photographer Ray Pringle-Scott, a Sergeant instructor at the School of Photography at RAF Cosford who served in the RAF for 22 years, this bird's-eye view looks across the rooftops, railway viaduct and surrounding fields of Shifnal. Standing prominently near the centre is St Andrew's Church, Shifnal's historic parish church, while visible on the far left are the old St Andrew's School and the nearby church hall, both of which have since been demolished. Can you spot your street or any familiar landmarks in this 1973 aerial view of Shifnal?

EU debate and road safety – readers’ letters, plus Shifnal in 1973

PICTURE FROM THE PAST: Village politics under the rafters, February 1973. A winter’s evening over half a century ago, when local democracy found a rather cosy refuge. Driven out of the Old School on Station Road by the resounding rehearsals of the local choir, members of Albrighton Parish Council decamped to the drafty, charming loft of Councillor Keith Worthington’s home on the High Street. Perched on mismatched chairs beneath bare brickwork and exposed timber beams, the councillors pressed ahead with their village agenda—stoically resisting the siren call of a miniature electric train layout set up just inches from the debate.

Letters: Toilet debate, TV licences, bank closures and 1973 politics

Your World

A Strange effigy at St Mary's Church Albrighton

Albrighton history talk to raise funds for development campaign

Sue Mulcock alongside works by her and other members of the Ffeisty Ffelters in the Bear Steps Art Gallery

Shropshire felt-makers bring colourful creations to Shrewsbury gallery

Ludlow Probus Club hears about military blunders

Support the World's To-Do List directors Simone Whitfield and Susanne Bearblock on the train home after a day of networking in Birmingham

Newport woman creates website to connect people with community groups

Environment

Gritters are heading out in Shropshire

Shropshire gritters to hit the roads as temperatures set to plunge

The robin is the only bird that keeps singing right through the winter

How to look after the birds in your garden this winter

Cold weather health alert issued- posing risk to vulnerable residents

The Snatchfield Farm site. Picture: Pegasus Group

Fears for ancient woodlands as 75-home plan faces mounting opposition

Knighton Town Council recently agreed to back a project to create a stage at Pinner's Hole near the Offa's Dyke path.

A temporary lease for the Knighton site will be drawn up

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