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Alan Gow has been backed to make a difference to title-chasing Wolves if his move goes through.Alan Gow has been backed to make a difference to title-chasing Wolves if his move goes through. Rangers and Wolves have agreed a fee of £250,000 for the 26-year-old striker with Blackpool and Leeds also in the hunt. Wolves, [...]

Hundreds of shop workers lost their jobs today as failed childrenswear chain Adams closed 111 stores, including two in Shropshire.

Your pictures of the current Arctic conditions.

Shropshire and Mid Wales was shivering today as an Arctic blast sent temperatures plummeting – and weather forecasters are warning worse is to come with temperatures as low as -10C (14F) tonight.

Tribute was today paid to an 80-year-old man who died when fire tore through part of his north Shropshire home.

Shrewsbury’s Music Hall received a standing ovation before the auditorium closed its doors last night for the last time after 169 years.

Consumers can expect price cuts from power companies in the New Year as the cost of wholesale gas falls, a comparison website claims.

The final day of trading for the Woolworths chain has been put back 24 hours.

Work to install traffic lights on one of Shropshire’s busiest roundabouts to help ease congestion as part of a £500,000 scheme was due to start today.

Staff and shoppers were in mixed mood when Woolworths in Telford Shopping Centre closed for the last time.

More than 100 players took part in Shropshire’s biggest chess event – the Wrekin Chess Congress – over the weekend, when they battled it out for a prize fund of more than £1,000.

Visitors to Shropshire’s Little Switzerland will soon be able hop on an electric bike to explore the hills under a new scheme – the first of its kind in the county.

Pictures from AFC Telford United’s away match against King’s Lynn on Saturday, January 3.

David Cameron has said the 2.5 per cent VAT cut introduced in December was a "criminal waste of money".

GM Telford Tigers suffered a dismal weekend as a cancellation and a defeat ended hopes of a four-point haul.

Pictures from Shrewsbury Town’s 0-0 draw against Bradford City at the Coral Windows Stadium on Saturday, January 3.

The gloomy economic outlook has worsened as 2009 is forecast to be the worst year for jobs in two decades.

Mining stocks lifted the FTSE 100 this morning, taking the index 2.88 per cent higher in early trading.

Waterford Wedgwood is set to go into administration with its shares suspended on the Irish Stock Exchange.

LETTER: So as the new year dawns and the leftover turkey goes into sandwiches for an unwelcome return to work, the Star and other papers report upon the same sorry tale that unfolds year in year out.

My old fixed-rate mortgage came to an end recently and so off I set in search of a new one, writes blogger Emnma Suddaby.

Since the last blog the Bucks have played twice, and after winning eight consecutive league games to end 2008 fans were expecting more of the same in the New Year, writes Telford blogger Joe Davies.

Town can be pleased with their first point of the New Year after a battling performance saw them come away from one of their promotion rivals with a point, writes blogger James Pugh.

An evenly matched game came alive in the final 10 minutes – but still ended in stalemate.

Shrewsbury Town came away from their match against Bradford City with a 0-0 draw.

A frozen pitch at St Andrew’s saw Saturday’s third round game between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Birmingham City called off.

The NHS is paying out nearly £2 million to patients in Shropshire for clinical negligence claims, new figures reveal.

Interest rates could reach zero per cent in 2009 as inflation threatens to turn negative, an expert has warned.

Gordon Brown has said he wants to create around 100,000 new jobs through a programme of public works with echoes of the 1930s US New Deal.

Andy Richardson and Sue Austin look back at the stories making the headlines in the Shropshire Star in this week’s podcast as well as taking a peek at what’s in store next week.