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A Shropshire man had a remarkable escape today after his car left the road and ended up down a 30ft ditch. The man walked away with only minor injuries from the wreckage.

The FTSE 100 slumped 1.68 per cent in early trading to 4,375.93, weighed down by commodity stocks.

LETTER: I was appalled to read about the plight of 35-year-old destructive aggressive rheumatoid arthritis sufferer Emma Suddaby.

LETTER: To read that two contestants on Big Brother have agreed to have their names changed by deed poll from Freddie to Halfwit and a female to Dogface is shameful.

Highlights from the weekend’s Cosford Air Show.

If bungalows are you thing, we’ve tracked down for of the most beautiful ground-level homes for sale this week across Shropshire and its border towns, each with their own unique charms.

Some may call it the Devil’s music, but the sun shone for three days as thousands of fans descended on Castle Donington to worship at the spiritual home of heavy metal.

Shropshire’s TV vet Steve Leonard talks about life, work and orangutans.

Wood you believe it? A tree near Lake Vyrnwy has been declared the joint tallest in the UK.

Dear friend, have you been offered money in emails from far-off lands? Then find out how solicitor David Cooper took on the scammers – and wrote a book about it.

A place in Shropshire’s Dragon’s Den is the subject of this week’s podcast with Assistant Editor Carl Jones and Business Editor Amy Bould talking about the Shropshire Star’s Star Idea competition.

Why, on some Shropshire forecourts, is unleaded more expensive? Anyone with a GCSE in chemistry will tell you that diesel requires less refining than unleaded petrol, and uses less crude oil to produce.

A Shropshire couple have been made MBEs for fostering children for more than 20 years.

With two housemates from the county in this series of Big Brother, the Shropshire Star’s very own BB – Ben Bentley – visited Elstree Film Studios in London to watch the madness for himself.

A Shropshire dog which chewed through every pair of its owners’ shoes as a pup is still chewing her way through life more than seven years on – only now it’s computer equipment.

Hard-working and selfless people from across Shropshire and Mid Wales have been rewarded in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

There’s a real arts and crafts feel to this week’s Twitter Talk. We meet a trio of Shropshire creatives including mural painter Carla Boulton, stained glass artist Denise Evans and art clay jewellery maker Jules Cox.

It’s been a day of carnival fun in Newport, Shrewsbury and Newtown. Click here for pictures.

Shoppers in Wellington are facing parking chaos when one of the town’s main car parks is temporarily closed with the loss of 130 spaces.

The future of Shrewsbury’s Quarry swimming pool will be one of the top priorities for the new Shropshire Council, the man in charge of the county’s leisure portfolio vowed today.

Shrewsbury Town fans have until the close of business on Monday to snap up season tickets at discounted ‘early bird’ rates.

Time is running out for AFC Telford United fans to snap up tickets for the club’s fifth birthday celebrations.

It was the night Shrewsbury’s clubs made significant moves at the top of the Furrows Shropshire Premier Bowls League.

The five unsigned bands who will fight it out for prizes in the final of the Shropshire Star Battle of the Bands 2009 have been unveiled.

The wife of a Shropshire man who plunged 20ft through a town hall trapdoor after discovering another man’s body, today said she was grateful her husband was alive.

_Organisers of the 2009 Cosford Air Show were gearing up for the arrival of 50,000 visitors to tomorrow’s event – and fingers are crossed for one special visitor to make an appearance.

A mother who suffered serious burns in a Shropshire house fire which killed her partner remained critically ill in hospital today.

Shropshire’s Big Brother contestant Freddie Fisher has escaped becoming the first official housemate to be booted out of the TV house.

The new leader of Shropshire Council has chosen his cabinet to help run the Tory-controlled authority. Only one name remains from the former Shropshire County Council cabinet.

A Shropshire road where there have been several landslides in the last few months will close tomorrow for safety work.