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A Shropshire couple were forced to flee their burning home early this morning after a fire broke out filling the property with thick black smoke.

A Shropshire subpostmaster is having to retrain as a driving instructor in a bid to keep his shop open and ensure he keeps up with mortgage payments because his post office is closing.

A big “people power” consultation exercise will begin on Monday into an £8 million scheme to regenerate Wellington town centre.

A man has been found shot dead near the Shropshire border after a woman was discovered with gunshot wounds at a country house nearby.

GM Telford Tigers face a tough weekend in the English Premier League, with a double-header of games against Bracknell Bees.

Strikes have spread across the UK in support of the mass walkout at the Lindsey oil refinery in protest at the exclusive use of foreign workers.

Residents in Shawbury will be entertained with an exotic tale of romance and action when ’1001 Arabian Nights’ is performed by Shawbury Village Players drama group. 

Japanese chipmaker NEC says it will cut 20,000 jobs worldwide over the next year as the global recession bites.

Pupils arriving at a Telford school will be able to get there more safely thanks to a £77,000 road safety scheme which features a new puffin crossing as well as bollards, waiting restrictions and speed humps.  

Join our film critic Carl Jones as he takes a look at the new releases. This week he saw Kate Winslet and Leonardo Di Caprio in Revolutionary Road. But is it another Titanic hit or a sinking ship? Find out here.

Killer moves and Latin grooves filled a Shrewsbury bar last night as salsa lovers of all levels descended on the venue to take part in its increasingly successful weekly dance classes.

REVIEW: Cinderella, Ludlow Assembly Rooms. How refreshing it was to attend the latest offering from LADS, writes Bev Jenkins.

After an initial drop the FTSE 100 was up in morning trading, following yesterday's losses.

Japanese carmaker Honda has announced the four-month closure of its manufacturing plant in Wiltshire after posting an 89 per cent slump in quarterly profits.

Visitors to Telford’s Wedding Exhibition are planning their big day almost two years in advance. Hundreds of people have visited the exhibition since it opened in the Telford Shopping Centre on Monday.

Local Dogs Trust Roden resident Dukey is a beautiful and gentle Cocker Spaniel. Despite his beautiful big brown eyes and loveable nature, he doesn’t have an owner or a home to call his own.

LETTER: I felt I had to write in after witnessing a good friend of mine being totally humiliated in his home town. He was shouted at (words which I cannot repeat), had two fingers stuck up at him and was almost spat at.

Rock legends Motorhead are set to return to Wolverhampton Civic Hall later this year.

A round-up of this week’s Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures.

Classic British rockers Thunder have dismayed fans be announcing that they are to split. But Midland fans can bid them farewell at Wolverhampton Civic Hall in July.

Consumer confidence slipped further into the red in January as the UK officially went into recession.

European Union fisheries policies are costing British families almost £300 every year in extra food and tax bills, it has been claimed.

The vast majority of people believe the World Economic Forum will achieve nothing, a new poll has shown.

A boy racer who was filmed driving between Shrewsbury and Telford at speeds of more than 100mph has been condemned by a Shropshire woman whose daughter was killed in a car crash.

The largest land-locked county in Britain isn’t the first place you’d expect to find a thriving group of sea cadets . . . but Shropshire has one of the best branches in the region. Ben Bentley paid them a visit on one of their most important nights of the year.

The FTSE 100 slipped 2.45 per cent over Thursday's session as a banking rally fizzled out.

At least 1,000 jobs will be cut on the London Underground this year due to the recession, it has emerged.

A disgraced former Powys vicar who admitted possessing more than 56,000 indecent images of children has been stripped of all church duties.

The 2009 Telford Wedding Exhibition has already seen couples from across the county flock to Telford Shopping Centre as they look to make preparations for the special day.

Two centuries after the birth of Shrewsbury’s most famous son, the naturalist Charles Darwin, there is still no evolutionary explanation for why humans blush, a biologist wrote in a leading scientific magazine today.