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Andy Richardson and Sunita Patel report on Pete Postlethwaite’s new climate change movie, The Age of Stupid – and reveal the role the Shropshire Star played in getting the Oscar-nominated actor involved with the project.

The FTSE 100 ended the day, and a volatile week, up 0.68 per cent.

A 13-year-old schoolboy has been found dead at his Shrewsbury home.

Up to 175 workers are to be made redundant at one of Telford’s biggest manufacturers, car parts firm Denso.

You CAN do this – and we are the proof! That is the message to AFC Telford from club legend Kevin Charlton.

Plans to strip high-paid banking executives of their bonuses in the United States are gathering steam.

Cruising the Med has still got to be the ultimate luxury sightseeing experience. And no-one knows cruising like Royal Caribbean. Ros Walsh take in the delights on board Voyager of the Seas.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called for global coordinated efforts to suppress financial market stress in an effort to avoid the current recession becoming even longer.

Boss Rob Smith will send AFC Telford United out on a mission to cause an FA Trophy sensation at York tomorrow, insisting: “We’ve got nothing to lose.”

Boss Paul Simpson is urging the Shrewsbury fans to rally to the cause as Town step up their promotion charge at home to Morecambe tomorrow.

Tony Mowbray hopes West Brom’s new central defensive partnership of Jonas Olsson and Shelton Martis will finally cut out the soft goals which have left the Baggies struggling for Barclays Premier League survival.

Look, but don’t touch – that’s the message to Shropshire wildlife lovers as the spring sunshine brings out huge clusters of frogspawn in county ponds and wetlands.

This is the latest in a series of sightings of UFOs in the skies over Shropshire which was captured on camera by Bridgnorth school girl Harriet Rogers.

Police were today continuing their search for a missing Shropshire man.

A damning report into the region’s leading children’s hospital – which treats some of Shropshire’s most seriously ill youngsters – revealed a catalogue of serious failings today.

An 18-year-old man was taken by ambulance to hospital after being led to safety by his friends and neighbours following a blaze at his Telford home.

A nine-year-old boy was critically ill in hospital today after being struck by two cars, one of which failed to stop, in an accident near Ellesmere.

West Mercia Police is to receive 70 new Tasers as part of a major extension of the use of the controversial weapon.

Wolves manager Mick McCarthy expects Nottingham Forest to come out on the offensive when the sides meet at the City Ground tomorrow.

Morecambe manager Sammy McIllroy believes his side have enjoyed the perfect preparation for tomorrow’s trip to Shrewsbury as they attempt to continue their late play-off charge.

He was born nine months ago – but it’s only now that this tiny wallaby is taking a peek at the outside world.

Wellington Amateurs will be hoping to put one hand on the West Midlands League division one championship trophy tomorrow – with victory in the “biggest game of our season”.

Police and officials from a housing association have teamed up to try and “clean up” a Market Drayton housing estate.

A Shropshire car park has had to be closed to stop boy racers from tearing around it, causing concern among local residents.

Lights, camera, action! Ludlow was today being transformed into a film set by crews making a commercial advertising tour-ism in the West Midlands.

A petition gathered by one woman in Shifnal was largely responsible for more than doubling the town’s contribution to residents’ council tax bills, it was claimed today.

A Shropshire store will reach the end of an era today when its owners close its doors for the last time.

A vicious political storm has broken over elections to the new unitary Shropshire Council with a top Tory challenging Labour and Lib Dem opponents to each field candidates in all 74 seats.

Shifnal Town have been challenged to carry their current six-game unbeaten run through to the end of the Midland Alliance season.

Angry Shrewsbury residents will hold talks with a college principal and a highways official after complaining that students and commuters are parking indiscriminately outside their homes.