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At last, a victory for rivers over megafarms: now councils can’t treat toxic waste as someone else’s problem

We won a high court case against Shropshire council’s plans for a new polluting poultry unit. Now a precedent has been set, says River Action founder Charles Watson

The Guardian - UK

Poultry megafarm in Shropshire halted over river pollution concerns

Planning permission quashed by high court after officials failed to consider impact of spreading manure on land

The Guardian - UK

Police investigate Enoch Powell portrait hung in village shop as ‘hate incident’

Exclusive: A Shropshire shopkeeper hung the display to show the need for ‘strong political leadership’

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Chicken megafarm in Shropshire must not be built, clean river group tells court

‘Huge volumes of chicken muck’ entering rivers are harmful to fish and plants, campaigners argue at Cardiff high court

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Family pay tribute to ‘loving and kind’ 18-year-old among three killed in Shropshire car crash

Teenagers Simon Evans, Jacob Holeman, and Jenson Bridges all died after Audi A1 crashed near Telford on Friday

The Independent UK

Tributes paid to ‘funny, loving’ 18-year-old passenger in triple death crash

Teenagers Simon Evans, Jacob Holman and Jenson Bridges died after the smash involving an Audi A1 in Shropshire.

Evening Standard

Third teenager dies after Shropshire crash

The 17-year-old died as a result of his injuries

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Great Courses To Play In The County Where Double Major Champion Sandy Lyle Honed His Game

Jeremy Ellwood returns to Shropshire, one of England's least populated counties, to stay and play at The Astbury and tick a couple more courses off his list...

Golf Monthly

Teenager killed in dog attack named as 19-year-old Morgan Dorsett

The teenager, from Shropshire, suffered fatal injuries during an incident inside a flat in Cobhorn Drive, Hartcliffe, Bristol on Wednesday evening.

Evening Standard

View live streaming photos of nesting herons with new state of the art camera system

Good news for bird watchers – state of the art camera system has been set up to observe nesting herons in Shropshire, UK

Digital Camera World

Men arrested after £80m cocaine haul discovered hidden under shea butter

Four men were arrested at an address in Merrington, Shropshire, after 847.50kg of cocaine was recovered at Tilbury Docks in Essex last December.

Evening Standard

Retirement ‘isn’t really an option’ – says Anne

The Princess Royal carried out her first public engagement in 1969 aged 18 when she opened an educational and training centre in Shropshire.

The Independent UK

Country diary: Winter has come and gone in a week

The Marches, Shropshire: As the ice thins and the paths begin to stick, the ravens and owls are getting busy with their breeding season

The Guardian - UK

‘Telford model’ is more effective for child abuse inquiries, says former chair

Tom Crowther KC says public inquiries seen as ‘Rolls-Royce solution’ but local review in Shropshire led to real progress

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Meet Gem the cocker spaniel – the face of UK pet cloning

Commercial animal cloning is banned in the UK, so Gemini Genetics in Shropshire freezes cells bound for the US

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‘The sores on the fish are nasty’: what’s behind the changes in the River Severn?

Faced with a dearth of data on the impact of local mega farms, volunteers have shown sewage pollution has soared

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UK’s intensive farming hotspots have 79 times more chickens than people, data shows

Despite large poultry units being a key driver of river pollution, their number has soared near the Wye and Severn

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The streetlights going out over Britain tell a brutal story: austerity isn’t over – it’s getting worse

Labour won’t achieve its aim of reviving the UK’s economy until it takes the plight of cash-starved councils more seriously, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

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The Independent UK

Why I swapped France for this beautiful English county to celebrate my milestone birthday

As Mary Novakovich was heading towards her 60th birthday, she longed for the southern French getaway she had for her 40th – until she discovered the autumnal charm of this Shropshire market town

The Independent UK

The best holidays to book for December 2024, from sun-drenched St Lucia to Krakow’s Christmas markets

Winter is coming, it bringing travel plans for Christmas city breaks and off-season Caribbean sun – whether you fancy hitting the slopes in Austria, a beach escape in St Lucia or a hike in the Shropshire Hills, we’ve something to inspire you

The Independent UK

Escaped capybara Cinnamon spotted in drone pictures after escaping Hoo Zoo enclosure

Drone captures ‘beloved’ rodent just metres from Hoo Zoo in Shropshire

The Guardian - UK

Shropshire zoo seeks runaway ‘beloved’ capybara

Telford’s Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World urges public to report sightings of Cinnamon and not approach her

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: A summer wedding with an arboreal soundtrack

The Marches, Shropshire: A lone black poplar drones and hums a song as old as these fields, as a single swallow zips above

The Guardian - UK

Chicken industry must halt expansion to stop ‘environmental scandal’ in River Severn

Campaigners warn of same ‘tragic events’ as in River Wye if planners ignore pollution risks of intensive production

The Guardian - UK

Archaeological survey detects Roman villas and iron age farmsteads in Shropshire

National Trust ground-scanning technology maps new features close to site of Roman city of Wroxeter

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