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Plans for 30 affordable homes in a village on the border with Shropshire have been lodged with Powys planners.

Alcohol-related deaths look like they have fallen in Shropshire during the past year.

A bank has committed to staying in a Herefordshire town following a wave of closures of high street branches in the county.

Rock band Texas are the latest band announced for this summer's Live at Ludlow Castle.

A woman has been sentenced to 13 months in prison, suspended for two years, after being in possession of a dangerous dog, which injured a police officer.

Firefighters were called to tackle a fire on the Herefordshire and Shropshire border over the weekend.

The number of schools causing concern in Powys has been described as “frightening” by a senior councillor.

Rock band Kula Shaker are the latest act announced for this summer's Lakefest at Eastnor Deer Park.

A petition has been started calling for May county council elections to go ahead.

A man with a tattoo of Adolf Hitler's signature is due to be sentenced after being found guilty of the attempted murder of an asylum seeker.

Council bosses are facing a backlash after calling for May’s local elections to be postponed without any public debate.

Eight men have been arrested on suspicion of drug dealing after two cars were stopped in Worcestershire yesterday.

Worcestershire has been talking to other councils about joining together to form a strategic authority.

Plans for 30 affordable homes in a village on the border with Shropshire have been lodged with Powys planners.

The number of schools causing concern in Powys has been described as “frightening” by a senior councillor.

Council house rents in Powys are set to rise by 2.7 per cent from April 1 which is the maximum increase allowed by the Welsh Government.

Folling the recent storms a senior Powys councillor has stressed that the council is determined to improve its emergency response.

Tory councillors have taken a swipe at Powys County Council’s Liberal Democrat/Labour administration after a Council Tax hike of 8.9 per cent was unveiled earlier today.

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital (SaTH) made more than £1 million in car parking charges in 2023/24.

The new chief constable of West Mercia Police will earn nearly £180,000.

The family of the Southport attacker have been moved to a "secret location" by police for their own protection, leaders at the church his father attended say.

According to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, the Southport attack was "clearly intended to terrorise".

Storm Eowyn has been named by the Met Office ahead of strong winds across the UK on Friday and into Saturday.

A 36-year-old man and a six-year-old girl have been found dead inside a house in West Lothian.

Former Proud Boys leader Henry 'Enrique' Tarrio, who was jailed for 22 years for seditious conspiracy over the January 6 riots, has been released from prison after being pardoned by President Donald Trump.

The family of the Southport attacker have been moved to a "secret location" by police for their own protection, leaders at the church his father attended say.

According to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, the Southport attack was "clearly intended to terrorise".

A fire at a hotel in a popular ski resort in Turkey has killed at least 76 people, the country's interior minister has said.

Jamie Carragher says he was mystified by Ruben Amorim calling his Manchester United team "maybe the worst" in the club's history and believes it could backfire on the head coach.

Novak Djokovic says he feels more connected with new coach Andy Murray with every passing day after the record 24-time Grand Slam champion booked a place in the last four of the Australian Open.

What do the four promotion-chasing sides in the second tier - Leeds, Burnley, Sheffield United and Sunderland - need to do to battle their way into the top two?

"Alex Cuthbert! Can there be a better feeling than that for the young man? Bold and powerful again, and for Lions supporters, beautiful too."

Marcus Rashford's representatives met with Barcelona executives in Lisbon on Tuesday ahead of the Catalan club's game with Benfica.

Pauline Quirke has been diagnosed with dementia and will be stepping away from acting, her husband has confirmed.

The director of The Brutalist has defended his lead actors' performances after it emerged that artificial intelligence had been used to "refine" their Hungarian accents.

Guitarist John Sykes, who played with rock bands including Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake, has died aged 65.

Dear White People star DeRon Horton says he was shot days before Christmas and is lucky not to have been killed or paralysed.

Police have launched an investigation after Gladiators star Apollo was reportedly stalked and harassed.

Moments after taking office, the new president Donald Trump issued a flurry of orders ripping up rules to protect the climate and natural world.

Crypto may have just got one of its most powerful backers in the newly appointed president.

The director of The Brutalist has defended his lead actors' performances after it emerged that artificial intelligence had been used to "refine" their Hungarian accents.

Donald Trump will pull the US, the world's second-largest climate polluter, out of the most important global treaty for tackling climate change for the second time.

Tests on the "mysterious balls" which led to the closure of several Australian beaches last week have revealed they were made up partially of faecal bacteria.

Hotel pools on Greek islands could be filled with seawater this summer as politicians try to combat the country's two-year drought.

A woman has spoken of her anguish after she was mistakenly declared dead.

Residents on a road in North Wales have taken matters into their own hands by turning a road full of potholes into a tourist attraction.

Sir Keir Starmer has said "Britain faces a new threat" and terrorism has changed in light of the Southport attack last summer.

A fire at a hotel in a popular ski resort in Turkey has killed at least 76 people, the country's interior minister has said.

Donald Trump likes to discomfort his enemies.

The Darth Vader theme tune suddenly bleeps from the underbelly of a Ukrainian drone as a marine attaches a mortar round to it before launching the aircraft against a Russian position.