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April 1, 2025

Reset your gut health on World Digestive Health Day

Your World|14 hours ago

Wem optician urges community to embrace active ageing

Your World|17 hours ago

Over 40 new runners complete Shropshire Shufflers’ beginners 5K programme

Your World|17 hours ago

Plans revealed for new 70-bed care home in Newport in Shropshire

News|22 hours ago

March 31, 2025

Bringing people together: Home Instead South Telford’s Memory Café arrives in Broseley

Your World|Mar 31

Nightingale House launches ‘Longest Day, Lasting Care’ campaign to raise funds for hospice services

Your World|Mar 31

National Insurance hike set to cost Shropshire's Severn Hospice half a million pounds

Friends of Bridgnorth Hospital to hold AGM

March 30, 2025

A helping hand in life and death - what it's like to be a death doula in Shropshire

Features|Mar 30

Supermarket launches new online pharmacy service for discreet home deliveries

Affiliates|Mar 30

March 29, 2025

Ellie Chowns MP Urges North Herefordshire Residents to Shape the Future of Our Water Sector

Old Radnor WI held its annual general meeting at the March meeting

Telford's Princess Royal Hospital to lose 'unsafe' staff parking spaces for siting of new generator

March 28, 2025

County MP challenges Chancellor on funding for pharmacies outlining 'struggling' Shropshire businesses

Positive feedback from temporary changes to the minor injury units and Ready to Go Home units in Powys

Cancer charity hails progress with big increase in 'bins for boys'

'Disappointment' for company that manages car parking at major county hospital as contract to end with control taken back

Oswestry care home put in special measures by CQC after falling from good to inadequate in four years

Shropshire NHS chief ‘deeply frustrated’ over lack of clarity on prospect of 50 per cent budget cut

Care provider for people with disabilities in Telford says it is working closely with regulator to address concerns

Shropshire hospital to save thousands of pounds in new solar panel roll-out

March 27, 2025

King Charles postpones trip to Birmingham due to ‘required hospital observation’ from cancer treatment side effects

Rotary tests can save lives - annual event returning to Whitchurch

Your World|Mar 27

Shropshire Leisure Centres launch health referral programme to support long-term health conditions

Your World|Mar 27

MPs back new report promoting ‘Healthy Hearts’ across the nation

Your World|Mar 27

Cleaning at a public toilet in Rhayader will be increased for a six month trial

Two Rhayader groups will benefit after the town council agreed to help them

Revealed: The amount of misdiagnosis compensation claims paid out by a Shropshire hospital trust

"Every day is a gift" - Shropshire woman given three-to-five years to live after brain tumour cancer diagnosis leads awareness campaign

Hundreds trek 10-mile canal route to raise £28k for children's hospice

March 26, 2025

Powys politicians react to health board artificially increasing waiting times for patients treated in England

Powys patients will have to wait longer for hospital treatment to save money for the health board

MP demands 'reassurance' scrapping NHS England won't mean end of support for county's 'failing' hospital trust

A new defibrillator has been installed in the Headbrook area of Kington

Shropshire communities eligible for up to £3,000 in funding as popular charity grants programme reopens in 2025

Your World|Mar 26

Charity's 'Titty Trail' goes nationwide to promote breast cancer awareness

Your World|Mar 26

Nursing boss welcomes work to remove Shropshire hospital's danger concrete

Great Barr GP practice 'putting people at risk of harm' as CQC takes action

Birmingham|Mar 26

Telford & Wrekin Council issues rallying cry to residents to check for silent killer

March 25, 2025

Quotes to make the public toilets behind the Knighton Hotel in Knighton more accessible are awaited

A Powys cancer trust which has helped thousands of people since it opened over 30 years ago, is now asking people to come to its aid.

A coffee morning to raise money for Medecins San Frontiers Doctors Without Borders will be held at a venue near Kington

'Listening to lived experiences is crucial' - Shropshire families encouraged to complete survey to shape the future of SEND and AP services in county

New Covid-19 jabs offered today by NHS in the West Midlands, Staffordshire and Shropshire - here's all you need to know

March 24, 2025

‘Social prescriptions’ can help young people through mental health challenges – new research

Your World|Mar 24

March 22, 2025

Powys organisations share £30,000 grant to help tackle child poverty

How Covid brought down the curtain on our theatres - but the show still went on

Features|Mar 22

Meet the Shropshire medical herbalist offering the UK's only drug free menopause clinic at her new wellness centre

March 21, 2025

West Midlands dog attack bar worker may have died from heart condition, inquest told

NHS waiting times at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust fall short of Government targets - here's by how much