The Latest Breaking News from Shropshire

A trail named after a brutal marcher lord passes through tranquil countryside between Shropshire and Herefordshire but is rich in reminders of the area’s turbulent past

The rear of the Pacemaker was left hanging over a huge ‘sinkhole’ after a canal bank collapsed in the early hours of December 22.

A sinkhole on the Shropshire Union Canal in Whitchurch has forced closures after a bank collapse drained water, stranded boats and triggered emergency repairs.

A major incident was declared after reports of a hole emerging along the Shropshire waterway in the early hours of Monday morning.

Emergency services said the Shropshire Union Canal had suffered a ‘significant breach’.

Major incident declared as 50-metre-long breach opens up in waterway previously flagged as ‘amber risk’

Emergency services were called after a large sinkhole drained a section of canal, with 12 people safely evacuated

People are being asked to avoid the incident on the Shropshire Union Canal in Chemistry, Whitchurch

Earlier this year I found myself stood among a sea of swaying ox-eye daises in a floodplain meadow on the Attingham estate in Shropshire, on land owned by the National Trust. I noticed other plants growing here: the sunny yellows of meadow buttercup, the wine-reds of great burnet and the…