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County councillors near Ludlow have renewed calls to keep up the pressure on Highways England in a bid to ‘save lives’ along the A49.

Shropshire Council was handed more than £100,000 to help deal with the impact of Brexit in the last financial year.

A four-day week could be explored at Shropshire Council in a bid to cut emissions and boost staff wellbeing.

A South Shropshire company is in the running to be named one of the best rural businesses in the UK after being shortlisted for a regional Rural Business Award.

Chris Packham is urging wildlife lovers across Shropshire to take part in the world’s largest insect citizen science survey to help reveal if the UK is experiencing a once in a decade butterfly phenomenon.

Shropshire Council misses out on £1,900 funding each time a school takes on academy status, it has been revealed.

Recruitment of social workers in the county “remains a challenge,” especially in terms of experienced workers.

The Prime Minister has said she “recognises concern” about Future Fit, after Shrewsbury’s MP attacked Telford and Wrekin Council for delaying the final decision.

The Bulls hosted Cheltenham Town at Edgar Street last night for a pre-season friendly.

Westfields travelled to mid Wales league side Knighton Town last night and recorded a 6-0 victory in another pre-season friendly.

The owner of one of the cars involved in a "rogue race" crash that injured 17 people in Stevenage has been named.

A tornado has swept through Greater Manchester, uprooting trees and damaging buildings and cars. 

Jeremy Hunt has warned Iran will face "serious consequences" if it does not release a British-flagged oil tanker which was detained in the Strait of Hormuz.

Police have released shocking CCTV footage of a teenage girl being knocked unconscious during a vicious attack.

Jeremy Hunt has warned Iran will face "serious consequences" if it does not release a British-flagged oil tanker which was detained in the Strait of Hormuz.

Harrison Schmitt says he doesn't much enjoy travelling by air these days.

The Metropolitan Police's Twitter account has been targeted by hackers who posted a series of bizarre tweets on the force's official account.

A tornado has swept through Greater Manchester, uprooting trees and damaging buildings and cars. 

Shane Lowry fed off the huge support from the Portrush fans as he claimed a share of the halfway lead at The 148th Open, while Rory McIlroy's valiant bid to make the cut came up agonisingly short on day two.

Dillian Whyte and Oscar Rivas went nose to nose and were pulled apart by security at their weigh-in, lighting the fuse to their heavyweight fight.

Anthony Joshua vs Dillian Whyte was "always the dream", according to promoter Eddie Hearn, who still hopes for an undisputed world heavyweight title fight between them.

Rory McIlroy was emotionally drained after his enthralling second-round fightback came up agonisingly short of making the halfway cut at The Open.

Shaun Ryder wants to know what day it is. His brow furrows as he does some quick working out on his fingers. "Wednesday? Wednesday! Coronation Street! Brilliant."

US rapper A$AP Rocky has received an unlikely boost in his bid to be freed from custody in Sweden over an alleged fight after Donald Trump said Kanye West had brought him up to speed on the situation.

It's been 50 years since US astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon on 20 July 1969.

The first trailer for the all-star film version of the hit musical Cats has been released - but while star Taylor Swift says her feline role is "everything", not everyone is impressed.

Harrison Schmitt says he doesn't much enjoy travelling by air these days.

It has been 50 years since the world first heard Neil Armstrong's famous phrase: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, has claimed it would be easier for his company to land on the moon than try to convince NASA that the company is up to the task.

A chemical in red wine known as resveratrol could prevent astronauts' muscles becoming weak in the reduced gravity environment on Mars, a new study as found.

The British author of a 50-year-old message in a bottle that washed up on an Australian beach has been found - and is at sea again.

Two peckish penguins were removed twice by police after attempting to nest underneath a sushi shop in New Zealand.

Passengers on a busy commuter train to London were held up on Wednesday morning - all because of someone's hair extensions.

More than one million people who have signed up to raid Area 51 in the hope of seeing evidence of aliens have been warned that the US air force "stands ready to protect America and its assets".

Shane Lowry fed off the huge support from the Portrush fans as he claimed a share of the halfway lead at The 148th Open, while Rory McIlroy's valiant bid to make the cut came up agonisingly short on day two.

A man suspected of killing 33 people in an arson attack at an animation studio in Japan reportedly started the fire because "he had been plagiarised".

Jeremy Corbyn's top aide instructed party officials to compile a dossier setting out how Labour's highest disciplinary body could be challenged, leaked emails have revealed.

Boeing is taking a $4.9bn (£3.9bn) charge to compensate airlines following the prolonged grounding of the 737 MAX fleet after two crashes.