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The crew of the USS Enterprise return to our screens in the new Star Trek movie. Carl Jones boldy goes to a press screening. Find out what he thinks here.

The FTSE 100 rose 1.47 per cent in early trading to 4,463.18 as banking stocks made up for previous losses and the mining sector held firm.

Shrewsbury Town fans give their reaction to last night’s self-inflicted defeat against Bury. Watch the video here.

First Joanna Lumley gives the Government what for, and then M&S  – facing the wrath of thousands of well-endowed women. It’s enough to make Mrs Pankhurst proud.

Highlights from last night’s Shrewsbury Town match against Bury at the Prostar Stadium.

There was heartache at the Prostar Stadium after a bizarre own goal from Neil Ashton gifted the match to Bury.

Wolves are back in the Premier League and so is one of their biggest fans, Midlands-born funk rocker Glenn Hughes. The former Deep Purple bassist talks to Debbie Bennett.

The current recession has seen a decline in charitable donations, new research shows.

The TUC union has warmed against freezing the national minimum wage, claiming it would leave workers struggling to make ends meet.

Final preparations were being made today ahead of Shrewsbury Town’s crucial play-off home game at the Prostar Stadium tonight – with the club hopeful of a sell-out.

A post-mortem examination has been carried out on a Shropshire grandfather who died after a freak accident

A Shropshire beauty queen who won the county’s top title has been finding out what life as a multi-millionaire is like ahead of this weekend’s estimated £110 million EuroMillions draw.

A crown court jury has visited the site in Norfolk where a teenage student was tied to a tree, doused with petrol and set on fire by three alleged killers, one of them a Shropshire man.

New albums from Manic Street Preachers, Leona Naess and Jon Thor Birgisson & Alex Somers fall under the critical gaze of Shropshire Star music writer Andy Richardson.

Rex M Key, our veteran rock critic, returns to pop picking duties to cast a wistful eye over the work of classic rockers Fleetwood Mac in this week’s Rex Factor.

It’s a big week for county football – and we want to see you getting behind Shrewsbury Town and AFC Telford United.

Wolves today came under fire amid claims health and safety was being used as a “convenient excuse” for scrapping a city centre promotion parade.

The devastated parents of a 19-year-old man from the Shropshire border, whose death helped save the lives of six others, say they are “proud of him in life, and proud of him in death”.

At least two control room staff suspended from Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service are facing disciplinary hearings, a union chief said today.

Unfounded internet gossip almost led to the cancellation of this year’s Oswestry country music festival, angry organisers revealed today.

Controversial changes to the law have opened up family law courts to journalists for the first time. The Shropshire Star spent a day in Telford to listen to some of the current cases.

Chris Hudson on AFC Telford’s knock-out match against Alfreton, which paved the way for Friday night’s crucial match against Gateshead. Watch Chris’s video here.

Shrewsbury should be one of several towns and cities across the country to feature a new military hospital, the town’s MP has claimed.

Almost 1,000 deliberate fires were started in Shropshire in the last 12 months, figures revealed today.

A Mid Wales beauty has secured a place in this year’s final of Miss Earth Wales for the second year running.

Civic leaders have called for an inquiry after a corporate director announced he is leaving Telford & Wrekin Council – the third senior officer to leave the authority in the last three months.

Ambulance response times in Mid Wales have radically improved, with nearly 60 per cent of emergency calls now reaching their destination on time.

Final preparations were being made today ahead of Shrewsbury Town’s crucial play-off home game at the Prostar Stadium tonight – with the club hopeful of a sell-out.

A Shropshire tax office scheduled for closure with the loss of up to 28 jobs has had a temporary reprieve, it has emerged.

A public inquiry into whether seven 110-metre tall wind turbines can be built on farmland near Market Drayton has heard the development would have an “unacceptable” impact.