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Shropshire

July 2024

  • The River Ceiriog near Chirk, Wrexham.

    Country diary
    Country diary: Life is hanging on at this heavenly crossroads

  • An artist's impression of an iron age farmstead enclosure on Attingham Estate in Shropshire.

    Archaeological survey detects Roman villas and iron age farmsteads in Shropshire

June 2024

  • Meadow grass flowers © Maria Nunzia @Varvera

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    Country diary: The grass is up – and so is the pollen count

  • West Mercia police vehicle

    West Mercia police in ‘chaos’ after failure to find new chief constable

April 2024

  • Shropshire farmer Ed Tate kneeling by vehicle tracks filled with water.

    ‘Water everywhere’: Shropshire farmers race to salvage harvest after record rain

    Some crops completely wiped out and dramatic falls in yields being predicted in county which reflects crisis in rest of UK

March 2024

  • Cherry blossom.

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    Country diary: A Japanese painting outside a Shrewsbury nightclub

  • The 64.8g gold nugget

    England’s largest gold nugget found in Shropshire with faulty metal detector

February 2024

  • View from a kink oak at Old Oswestry Hillfort

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    Country diary: A horned sheep, caught beneath a ‘kink’

    The Marches, Shropshire: The sheep struggles, trapped in a fence wire. I try to separate one from the other

January 2024

  • Flooded streets in Bewdley, Worcestershire, in early January.

    ‘We can’t engineer our way out of this’: how to protect flood-hit Severn Valley

  • David Waterhouse

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    David Waterhouse obituary

  • aerial view of flooded village Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottingshire

    Charity criticises ‘crazy’ rules for flood defence funding in England and Wales

  • Bowed Union Jack flags and a for sale sign are seen in turbulent flood water risen around a home with three nearby boats floating high in the water

    Storm Henk leaves flooded homes and roads across England

December 2023

  • A458 in Morville Heath

    Two die in collision involving police vehicle in Shropshire

  • Les Jones

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    Les Jones obituary

November 2023

  • The Marches Mosses, comprised of Fenn's, Whixall & Bettisfield Mosses reserves, and Wem Moss and Cadney Moss in North Shropshire

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    Country diary: Where mosses green the gold

  • (Clockwise from top left) Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Hugo Morris and Wilf Fitchett.

    Four teenagers found dead in car in north Wales drowned, says coroner

October 2023

  • A man stands beside a donkey whose rear half is sunk in mud

    Shropshire firefighters rescue ‘one donkey, stuck in storm drain’

    Amigo the donkey hoisted to safety after falling waist-deep into muddy drain hole covered by leaves
  • people working on plant and vegetable-filled raised beds in an urban community garden with tall tower blocks in the background

    Green spaces in poorer parts of England more likely to be built on, study finds

    More deprived areas have fewer parks and public places protected by official local green space designation
  • The  core team of volunteers who saved The Falcon Inn in Hinstock, Shropshire. From left: Sean Kinson, Mike Thomason, Richard Parrish and Ian Walker.

    How a team of Shropshire villagers rallied to save their local pub

    The Falcon Inn in Hinstock lay empty and abandoned. After a huge community effort, it will reopen on Saturday
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