Shropshire

The first elections to Shropshire Council took place on 4 June 2009, with the former Shropshire County Council being the continuing authority and its councillors became the first members of the new Shropshire Council on 1 April.

A Shropshire Council spokesperson said: "At approximately 7pm yesterday Shropshire Council’s Building Control team was notified of a vehicle collision with a structure on St Johns Street in Bridgnorth.

Having been involved in local news in Shropshire for 35 years, it’s a great pleasure to join the team at the Shropshire Star to launch a new podcast series.

Similar heats are set to be held in Shrewsbury, North Shropshire and South Shropshire with the winners invited to take part in a grand final after Christmas.

Also on hand will be members of the Shropshire Growth Hub team to give guidance on local business support services and training to help boost Shropshire businesses.

It was paid for by the people of Shropshire and dedicated to Gen Rowland Hill, who was born in Shropshire and served as second-in-command to the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo.

The Shropshire Hills National Landscape team is working in partnership with Shropshire Wildlife Trust and Natural England and local landowners to study the distribution of these soils and how water is moving through this landscape.

One of the biggest one-day events in Shropshire and the biggest one-day cycle race in the UK is the Shropshire Star Newport Nocturne ; held every four years, it is Britain's only floodlit cycle race.

Poetry A Shropshire Lad main '''A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now''' Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.

South Shropshire is more rural, with fewer settlements and no large towns, and its landscape differs greatly from that of North Shropshire.

A BID to create two holiday lets from a former agriculture building in Trefonen has been given the green light by Shropshire Council.

A candlelit vigil will be held for the boys in Shropshire this evening, with churches in Shrewsbury opening their doors today to console the shocked community.

A council expert has kicked up a stink over proposals which could lead to the removal of trees leading into a new sewage treatment works on the banks of a south Shropshire river.

A drink driver who was caught behind the wheel of a BMW near the Shropshire/Wales border has been banned from the road.

A film that was shot in and around a Shropshire medieval town and even saw the locals become cast members, is set to be remembered at an event at the end of this month.

A judge was left perplexed by a Shropshire paedophile's excuse after he was caught trying to have sex chats with 12-year-old girls by undercover police.

A major road in Shropshire was closed for more than two hours this afternoon due to a 'police-led incident'.

A man has admitted burgling two homes in two days in a Shropshire town.

Amy Pugh and Meg Chandler, both Shropshire singer-songwriters, recording and playing nationally and internationally, will be welcomed back to a hometown crowd.

A NORTH Shropshire man who was found dead earlier this year took his own life a coroner has concluded.