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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

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‘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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

‘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

The Guardian - UK

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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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 Independent 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

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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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Country diary: A walled garden that lived, died and lives again

The Marches, Shropshire: The grand Llanforda Hall is long gone, but the garden is overgrown and liberated, haunted with the same obsession that brought it into being

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: The dandelions should be crowded; instead, a solitary bee

The Marches, Shropshire: These glorious so-called weeds are everywhere at the moment, undimmed by the lack of attention

Evening Standard

London leavers: 'Robbie Williams and I plan our artworks over the phone now I've swapped Acton for Shropshire'

Robbie Williams’ creative partner Ed Godrich upped sticks to the Corvedale Valley and saved his local pub

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

Richard Brock arrived late at detectorists’ outing, but within 20 minutes had found Hiro’s Nugget, likely to be worth over £30,000

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

Direct rail services between Shropshire and London to end soon

The service is reportedly being cancelled because not enough people use it

Evening Standard

London leavers: 'We swapped paying £1,000 a month London rent for renovating a £170k period home in Ludlow'

A passion for coffee and a move to Shropshire allowed Anabelle de Gersigny and Matt Wade to build their property portfolio

Evening Standard

Two dead and two injured in car crash involving police vehicle in Shropshire

A driver in his 60s and passenger aged in her 50s were killed in the crash with a crime scene investigation vehicle

The Guardian - UK

Two die in collision involving police vehicle in Shropshire

Man in 60s and woman in 50s pronounced dead at scene of crash in Morville Heath on Saturday

The Guardian - UK

Les Jones obituary

Other lives: Economics teacher who was also an organic farming enthusiast with a smallholding in Shropshire

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