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Luke Powell

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April 24, 2025

Shropshire MP backs calls for dedicated fund to cover travel costs for young cancer patients

The three-bedroom home in Market Drayton will be auctioned on May 15. It has a guide price of £40,000. Picture: Rightmove/Bond Wolfe.

Three-bedroom Market Drayton home to go under the hammer with low guide price next month

April 23, 2025

Severn Trent apologises after customers experience no supply or discoloured water due to booster pump failure

Several Telford properties have experienced a powercut

Homes and businesses hit by power cut in Telford

Police presence at the Trefonen Playing Fields. Picture: West Mercia Police.

Police step up patrols at playing fields near Oswestry after reports of antisocial behaviour

Crews scramble to village on English/Welsh border to reports of barn on fire with livestock inside

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service. Photo: Jamie Ricketts

Firefighters called to Shrewsbury property after bonfire spreads to fencing and tree

North Shropshire nursing home is told by regulator it must improve

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"He will only get better" - Michael Appleton on Shrewsbury Town attacker

The building plot for sale off Southall Road in Dawley. Picture: Rightmove/Auction Hammer Midlands.

Telford plot with permission for three dwellings to be auctioned with low guide price next week

MP's outrage at scale of sewage dumped in the region's waterways - Severn Trent knows there is 'work to be done'

April 22, 2025

Firefighters called to gas leak in village near English/Welsh border

Müller's site in Market Drayton

Expansion of Market Drayton yogurt factory will be 'great boost' to local economy says council

Armed police arrest man after axe raid on Oswestry jewellery shop

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service. Photo: Jamie Ricketts

Three people rescued from lift at retirement complex in Shrewsbury

Police appeal after trailer stolen from sailing club near Bridgnorth

Helen Morgan MP is campaigning for safety measures to be implemented at the Llynclys crossroads

National Highways 'developing options' for improvements at renowned accident blackspot junction near Oswestry

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Luke Powell’s player ratings after Shrewsbury Town beaten 4-1 by Northampton Town

Shackerley Mill House and Shackerley Mill in Albrighton has been listed for sale. Picture: Rightmove/Halls.

Stunning four-bed home and three-storey former mill in Albrighton are listed for sale

Shropshire schools' drops in GCSE results since before Covid are among worst in the country - study

April 21, 2025

Telford Steam Railway with Michael Portillo (in red).

Telford Steam Railway stars in episode of Great British Railway Journeys

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No holding back from Michael Appleton who says Shrewsbury Town’s ‘softness’ makes his ‘skin crawl’

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Northampton Town 4 Shrewsbury Town 1 - Report

Volunteers from SuperByte helped plant around 400 trees as part of the Severn Rivers Trust work with the SVWMS. Picture: Shropshire Council.

Volunteers from Shrewsbury tech firm help plant hundreds of trees as part of demonstrator project

Angry farmers plot latest tractor protest in Shrewsbury - the day before local elections

Eco ambassadors (left to right) Ari, George, Flynn, Benji, Josh, and Isabelle after their litter picking.

Environmentally-minded Shropshire school pupils pitch in to help keep their area tidy

South Shropshire MP Stuart Anderson.

'Flooding causes mental and financial distress for residents' - South Shropshire MP welcomes review of funding formulas

Market Drayton Royal British Legion is inviting people to its celebratory lunch.

Series of events planned for VE Day in Market Drayton including special lunch for 80 over-80s

Multi-faith Chaplain, Kevin Place (centre) with the Ward 37 team.

Meet the Shropshire hospital chaplain who is getting patients dancing

Rachel Baker with her son Joe who died in a crash in November last year.

Mum who 'begged' for days to see her son's body steps up campaign for law change after 'frustrating' meeting with trust

The two-bedroom home in Oswestry will be sold at auction in June. Picture: Rightmove/Bowen.

Property 'ideal as first home or investment' to be auctioned with low guide price

The three-bedroom property in Telford will be auctioned in May. Picture: Rightmove/Bond Wolfe.

Vacant Telford home to be auctioned with low guide price

April 19, 2025

Hort students Harry, Sam and Luke with LSA Dan.

Students at Gobowen specialist college plant new orchard after generous donation of trees

Telford MP Shaun Davies (left) with some of Telford & Wrekin Council’s Lived Experience Apprentices as he dropped off the Easter egg donations to Darby House.

Telford MP 'blown away' by generosity of residents and businesses after hundreds of Easter eggs donated

The woodland in Hopton near Hodnet that is for sale. Picture: Rightmove/Berrys.

Woodland near Market Drayton featuring derelict 'chalet' goes up for sale - with low guide price

Hidden Treasures, based at St Mary's CofE School in Bridgnorth (pictured) has been upgraded by Ofsted. Picture: Google.

'Children enjoy rich experiences': Day care centre in Bridgnorth no longer 'requires improvement' says Ofsted

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service attended the incident involving a caravan in Craven Arms today (February 19).

'Fires in the open will be more prevalent earlier in the year' warns senior Shropshire fire officer after spate of blazes

April 18, 2025

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service. Photo: Jamie Ricketts

Man and dog rescued from flat fire in Oswestry caused by cooking - dog provided with oxygen

Stuart Anderson MP

'Houses are tapping into old and inadequate sewerage systems' says MP in call over development planning

Residents invited to have their say on project aiming to tackle flooding on troubled Shrewsbury footpath

Picture: Bridgnorth Fire Station.

Warning issued by firefighters after unattended camp fire spreads along Bridgnorth hiking trail

An abandoned trailer on the A41 near Market Drayton was destroyed in a fire.

'It was an act of vandalism waiting to happen' - Abandoned rubbish-filled trailer destroyed in fire near Market Drayton prompts anger

Shaun Davies MP (centre) with media students at Telford College.

Telford MP put in the hot seat by aspiring journalists during visit to college

April 17, 2025

Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service. Photo: Jamie Ricketts

Car crashes into house in Telford - fire crews rush to scene

Photo: Market Drayton Fire Station

Abandoned trailer destroyed in 'arson' attack 'should have been removed months ago' says North Shropshire MP

Police have caught motorists speeding in Ludlow. Picture: West Mercia Police.

Police catch several speeding motorists in south Shropshire

Stuart Anderson MP at Church Stretton Police Station.

Calls for 'rethink' on police funding with West Mercia to benefit from only a dozen new officers

Emergency services rush to road by retail park in Shrewsbury after car crashes into traffic light

West Mercia Police are appealing for witnesses to a robbery in Leominster last December

Police appeal after people seen checking doors of properties at night in Oswestry

Telford & Wrekin Council leader renews calls for M54/M6 link road after multi-million pound boost for road projects

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