Express & Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
A charity for the elderly claims that 69,300 older people in Staffordshire and Shropshire have seen their nearest post office shut as a result of the programme of closures. Help the Aged says 45,000 pensioners in the counties will need to travel at least half a mile to a mile further afield to find a replacement [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
A new site for Gypsies and travellers is approved by Shropshire councillors despite strong local opposition.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Health bosses seek people's views on what they would like included in a £25m upgrade of a Shropshire hospital.
Martin Eaglestone (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
We could hardly contain our excitement as the grass grew in Shropshire. Anyway having gone 2-0 down, and sent some of us to the bar, the Baggies woke up and ended up with a pre season 2-2 draw. The joys of pre season football ...........
Sinclair's Musings (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I really don't think that council accounts are read by anyone who doesn't have some fixed, and normally quite dull, purpose in mind. Despite that Shropshire County Council have clearly decided they need to make their accounts (PDF) more accessible, more user friendly. How? With an owl and what I think is a weasel discussing them. Brilliant.
NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By Margo Rutledge Kissell DAYTON — The police chief's news conference on the fatal shooting of Ricky Moore resulted in more questions than answers for his family Monday, July 21. "Nothing they say will justify why they shot him," said Moore's cousin, Jackie Shropshire, 30. She was among several people who stopped by the 404 W. Parkwood Ave. residence Moore shared with his mother, Gladys Moore,
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The future of a Shropshire landmark has been secured by the transfer of its deeds, a council says.
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Postponed reforms of Straw, and how the country has come over all knife knuts. Jonathan Calder reports from Shropshire Reform of the House of Lords? Hereditary peers have feared nothing so much since the back of Nanny's hairbrush. Life peers are filled with foreboding too. Will they be selected as candidates in the elections to the new house? Will they get back in if they are? And will being a senator...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Motorists using the A41 in Shropshire are warned about delays as anti-flood work and safety improvements are made.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
A tractor driver is seriously hurt when his vehicle is hit by a passenger train on a Shropshire level crossing.
icWales (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
WELSHPOOL were heading for a hefty defeat at Much Wenlock as their batting was blown away in the Marston’s Shropshire Premier League.
icWales (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
WELSHPOOL were heading for a hefty defeat at Much Wenlock as their batting was blown away in the Marston’s Shropshire Premier League.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
A £160,000 project to encourage more people to walk in the Shropshire countryside is nearly finished.
ECB (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
James McCoy and Nathan Dumelow both sparkled with the bat, but it was not enough to stop Cheshire slipping to defeat against Shropshire in this season's Minor Counties 20/20 Challenge Tournament at Wrekin College in Wellington.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
A further £1m funding is promised for Shropshire to tackle the effects of last summer's heavy rain and flooding.
