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A banking rally helped lift the FTSE 100 but the index is still trading below the 4,000 mark.

A Shropshire-based mobile phone specialist is to create 65 new jobs in the Midlands, including up to 10 new posts at its Telford headquarters.

Arsenal have announced they made a pre-tax profit of £24.5 million in the six months up to November 2008.

Teenage pregnancies have fallen by seven per cent in Shropshire – figures reveal today.

An Oswestry company has been fined £7,000 after polluting a brook with ammonia.

A former Shropshire couple living in the area hit by Australia’s bush fires were bracing themselves for another onslaught from the blazes’ out-of-control flames around their home today.

Annual rallies organised by vintage vehicle and machinery enthusiasts in Powys are helping to keep the Welshpool-based air ambulance service flying.

Dogs were left without food or water, emaciated or kept in a small cage full of faeces, magistrates have heard.

Shropshire Paralympian Debbie Brennan was today celebrating her finest achievement – giving birth to a baby boy.

So let me get this straight, says blogger Andrew Owen. The Royal Bank of Scotland racks up losses of £24bn – that’s £24bn! – and the man who presided over the disaster waltzes off with £650,000 a year for the rest of his life.

More than 100 homes near Market Drayton were left without power for about four hours following a fault.

Shropshire Star sportswriter Chris Hudson reviews Telford’s win over Southport. See his video here.

Actress Wendy Richard, who has been suffering from cancer, died today, her agent said.

Career-threatened Jamie Vermiglio will be taken out of the AFC Telford United reckoning as he battles with a broken back.

Shrewsbury Town were today hoping to move closer to wrapping up the short-term signing of trialist striker Moses Ashikodi.

Mick McCarthy today warned Wolves to be wary of Plymouth after comparing the test to “a greyhound chasing a rabbit”.

Shropshire-born actor Peter Vaughan, most famously known for his role as “Grouty” in classic comedy show Porridge, has pledged his support to the county theatre group which his aunt founded 90 years ago.

All the latest news, features and sport from the Shropshire Star, here each weekday afternoon.

Shropshire’s largest secondary school has been hit by a major computer virus, shutting down its entire IT system.

A drugs company has recalled batches of a meningitis C vaccine due to contamination fears. A medicines watchdog said today no children were believed to be at risk.

A teenage boy was struck in the face with a pellet believed to have been shot from a gun as he walked along a Shifnal road.

A man was attacked and robbed by two youths in Shrewsbury early today.

A woman who parked her car in front of exit barriers at a Telford Shopping Centre car park today described how she launched her protest after losing her ticket.

A shop thief from Shropshire who pleaded to be sent to jail so he could get free meals and heating during the winter has had his wish granted.

The search for performers in Telford’s Got Talent moved to Newport last night. See what happened here.

Shropshire has reinforced its reputation as home of the weird and wonderful after a new spate of big cat and UFO sightings.

The government is pressurising former Royal Bank of Scotland chief of executive Sir Fred Goodwin to forego his £650,000 pension after record corporate losses from the bank.

Sir Fred, who earned his 'the Shred' nom de guerre over a reputation for cost-cutting, is already drawing on the pension despite being only 50, but Alistair Darling is putting pressure on him to cut back his retirement package.

A school on the south Shropshire border has achieved double success in two sports tournaments.

The only jackpot our Dog of the Week Bingo is hoping to win is a happy new home complete with loving new owner.

The FTSE 100 has jumped following Royal Bank of Scotland's biggest corporate loss in history.