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Administrators for Wrekin Construction today said they had identified several financial “issues” at the company which they are investigating following its collapse.

The London office of AIG has been dubbed the 'ground zero' of the financial crisis after an investigation revealed traders at the Mayfair office had lost billions of dollars.

Shropshire got silly today to raise money for Comic Relief.  See our picture gallery here.

House prices fell by one per cent in February, bringing the average price of a home in England and Wales to 13.3 per cent lower than this time last year.

Strained relations between the government and the Bank of England reached a head when the central bank issued a rare public reproach to Lord Mandelson, the business secretary.

MPs are being warned to curb the sale of 'electronic cigarettes' following fears they could be much more dangerous than previously thought.

Banks should be "very frightened" of the FSA, the chief executive said in a speech outlining the City watchdog's new tougher stance.

Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has bucked the trend of the faltering drinks industry by posting a 6.5 per cent rise in half-year revenue.

Sixth form students from Shropshire have visited the sites of the Nazi death camps in Poland – and say the experience is one they will not forget.

The Borderlines Film Festival kicks off next week, bringing acclaimed movies, and top movie makers, to the South Shropshire area.

The latest transfer between two Welsh football clubs could be described as barking mad.

House building in Powys has almost ground to a halt in the last year, with many businesses facing an uncertain future, it has been revealed.

The Shropshire maker of the Aga cooker today said orders were down by about 20 per cent in the face of deteriorating trading conditions.

A disused reservoir and a storage depot in rural parts of Shropshire are among more than 400 sites to be sold off by Severn Trent Water.

Efforts to reopen a disused tramway line at Chirk and create a tourism attraction have been boosted by the loan of machinery from an Oswestry firm.

A man has been killed in a collision with a car as he walked along an unlit Shropshire road.

A meeting to decide the fate of three major supermarket proposals in Oswestry has been shelved.

AFC Telford United were today urged to grasp their chance to become Wembley Wonders and produce another backs-to-the wall FA Trophy effort against York.

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy has hailed the impact made by Christophe Berra since the defender’s £2.3m arrival from Hearts.

Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has said his government has the economic "ammunition" to follow up its stimulus package with further spending.

Shrewsbury have been urged to ‘be ruthless’ as they attempt to halt Gillingham’s hot-streak in tomorrow’s League Two promotion shoot-out.

The future is looking brighter for a youth group in Shropshire which has seen a rush of new recruits after its plight was featured in the Shropshire Star.

Youth centres in north Shropshire are to be revamped following a £140,000 cash boost.

A firm which created an eco-village in a south Shropshire town has gone bust leaving half-built homes and potential homeowners out of pocket.

A mother-of-four who tried to smuggle Class A drugs into Shrewsbury’s Dana Prison to give to her partner has been jailed for two years.

LETTER: “The financial crisis has failed to affect me”, who is this individual who is also teaching their children to do the same?

Shropshire Star film critic Carl Jones on the new Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson comedy, Marley and Me.

Britain hopes to persuade the G20 to commit to more regulation at the finance ministers' summit tomorrow.

Average asking prices for homes have dropped by more than 20 per cent in some towns, research has found.

A fault with the Rolls-Royce engines in Boeing 777s that caused a flight to lose power at Heathrow last January is highly likely to happen again, American investigators have revealed.