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Rail passengers travelling without a ticket will be fined from Monday on lines where they could previously buy tickets on board.

South Shropshire MP Stewart Anderson is calling for the extension of a fund which has helped hundreds of swimming pools across the country - including Teme Leisure Ludlow, which was awarded £208,023 in March.

Bedstone College in Shropshire has slashed its school fees by more than a third to save it from “extinction” under Labour’s VAT plans.

Household recycling centres in Shropshire will maintain their regular week-long opening hours for the next six months, a meeting has been told.

Plans for four traditional houses in a Herefordshire hamlet have been approved despite fears they will be out of reach of locals.

Finance bosses at Shropshire Council say they need to be “ruthless” to reign in the council’s spending position after early in-year projections made for “grim reading”.

The money raised from closing streets in a historic Herefordshire village last month to enable filming of a big-budget movie has been revealed.

Shropshire Council will consider a plan to sell off leaseholds to council-owned car parks to raise money.

A new pilot programme will see employers offer comprehensive cardiovascular disease (CVD) health checks to their staff, helping to prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and kidney disease.

Cash-strapped Shropshire Council says it has “no room for error or delay” as its latest financial forecast predicts a £38.5million overspend for this year.

An increase in council-run residential care has led to improvements for looked after children in Shropshire, according to a new Ofsted report.

A new group to help food and drink businesses across the Marches work more closely together, develop international markets and access specialist support has been launched at an online event.