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Insurance group AIG, which has received nearly $180 billion (£129 billion) in three different US government packages, has agreed to review its bonuses for the coming year.

In this week’s Shropshire Star Sunday Supplement podcast, Andy Richardson and Carl Jones look at the big news stories from the past seven days.

Broad Street, like a Midlands alternative to the Las Vegas Strip (only much less glam!), packs in yards upon yards of clubs and bars for young, rowdy crowds. 

Comedian Eddie Izzard is taking his record-breaking Stripped show on the road for a UK tour which takes in Birmingham’s NIA later this year.

A Bishop’s Castle resident who thought he had found his dream home says it has proved to be a nightmare after developers disappeared and left his property on what is effectively a building site.

A supermarket shelf-stacker has changed his name to that of his hero Bruce Willis with the help of a Shropshire company specialising in crazy name changes.

Reviewer’s rating *** I’ve driven past this restaurant at least eight times every week for the past three years, always admiring its pristine facade but never stopping to venture inside, writes Gurbakhsh killilea.

Former Shrewsbury mayor George Richey outlines his experiences and adventures as an Army pilot providing close support for troops engaged in the Malayan Emergency 50 years ago in a book called “Wings Over Malaya.”

Reviewer’s rating ** On a bitterly cold winter evening the Old Bell stood out like a beacon as the perfect respite from the weather, but Russell Roberts found nothing to warm to.

This is a brilliant first book from a former Shropshire primary school teacher, traveller, poet, actor and artist. And now Carole Carr from Ludlow can definitely add “children’s novelist” to her list of many talents.

In a recipe taken from her new book, Delia Smith tells us how to make this traditional English treat. It’s brilliant as a first course for a summer meal for six, but two could easily polish off the whole lot for lunch.

Shropshire horse racing trainer Sheila Crow was today celebrating joining an exclusive list of county Cheltenham Festival successes.

Paul Simpson has insisted suggestions Shrewsbury Town have been the “moneybags” club of League Two in 2008-9 are wide of the mark.

Be strong and be brave – that is the message from Telford legend Antone Joseph as the class of 2009 go shooting for Wembley.

Gordon Brown has said greater international cooperation lies at the heart of resolving the current economic crisis.

Gordon Brown has said greater international cooperation lies at the heart of resolving the current economic crisis.

A Shropshire man whose girlfriend saved his life when she realised he was having a stroke because of a high-profile television campaign told her: “You have given me my life and I am giving you my heart.”

Nearly 50 people across Shropshire currently have football banning orders imposed on them after they were involved in trouble relating to soccer matches.

A Shropshire man who disappeared two months ago could feature on a BBC television programme trying to find some of the 200,000 people reported missing nationwide each year.

Jewellery experts today poured scorn on reports collapsed Shropshire building firm Wrekin Construction was the owner of a ruby worth £11 million.

Average house prices in Shrewsbury fell by one of the smallest amounts across the country in the past 12 months, new figures showed today.

Thousands of Shropshire people have been taking up the challenge of doing something “funny for money” – and were today counting the proceeds from their efforts.

A motorcyclist remains “extremely poorly” in hospital as police launched a new appeal for information.

Two of Telford’s four specialist education units catering for teenage parents and youngsters with behavioural problems will be axed in the autumn, it was revealed today.

Common toads could become an endangered species if they continue their decline of the last 10 years, a Shropshire countryside officer has warned.

Up to 30 Shropshire sightings of mysterious spheres of light have been logged by UFO experts in the last two months – with eight recorded in the last week.

Park Hall is undertaking a major new project for 2009 with the reconstruction of an Iron Age roundhouse built using traditional methods by local crafts men and women.

Animal lovers will go bow wow wow for David Frankel's comedy-drama about one man's journey of self-discovery with a mischievous Labrador, based on the memoir by John Grogan.

Originally sentenced to seven years at the age of 19 for a bungled armed robbery, Charles Bronson is now one of the UK's most notorious and violent inmates of our overcrowded prison system.

The FTSE 100 closed at 3,753.68, ending the week out of the red after gaining 223 points since last Friday, breaking a four-week losing streak.