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Shropshire's cabinet will discuss a new way of delivering youth support services, but some of the borough’s lower-tier councils are sceptical.

The impact of caring for Shropshire’s 7,000 dementia sufferers is “significant” and “of great cost” councillors will be told.

Development of a new £13.2 million innovation park and sorting out a major road are the two top priorities for a Shropshire town.

More than 40 per cent of shops that place items outside on Shrewsbury’s pavements are doing so without a permit and may lack insurance to cover pedestrian accidents, councillors have heard.

South Shropshire MP Philip Dunne has welcomed the reintroduction of the Agriculture Bill to the House of Commons.

Herefordshire councillors disregarded professional advice this week and approved plans for eight homes for a village near Leominster.

Herefordshire councillors have approved plans for a manager’s home at a local tourism hotspot.

Shrewsbury's council-owned shopping centres made more income than bank or building society investments would have done, and new and renewed tenants will help “ride out” last year’s drop in their value, a committee has heard.

Police are appealing for information following a poaching incident in Cleobury Mortimer.

County councillors have blasted hospital chiefs for using ‘false’ statistics to justify the temporary closure of minor injury units in Ross-on-Wye and Leominster.

The cost of a new pavement permit will more than double – but the increase is not as severe as feared.

Work will be carried out on a former railway station building toilets.

Fire crews have rescued a man who had fallen down a well in Knighton on Teme.

Police are appealing for information after power tools, a generator and a trailer were stolen from a property in Ludlow.

Council tax is due to rise by 3.99 per cent in Shropshire in the next financial year, as the authority aims to plug the gap in its budget.

The Bishop of Ludlow has confirmed he will retire at the end of April.

Two men have been arrested after charity shops were broken into in Shropshire.