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Shrewsbury are preparing for a crunch weekend when they could move out of the Birmingham League premier division drop zone and into the last 32 of the National Knockout.

Rowing competitors are looking forward to a new streamlined Bridgnorth Rowing Regatta this year.

Montgomeryshire Assembly Member Mick Bates is to step down at the next election.

Thousands of people are expected to turn out in Newport tomorrow for its annual carnival.

Hopes have been raised that a bridge near Shrewsbury could be reopened far sooner than the five months originally feared.

Shropshire rich boy Freddie Fisher will tonight discover whether the public have fallen in love with him – or decided to boot him out of the Big Brother house.

BlackRock has agreed to buy Barclays Global Investors (BGI) in a deal involving £8.2 billion cash and shares, it has been announced.

Prince Andrew made a surprise visit to Shropshire yesterday to dish out military awards to county-based soldiers ahead of their next tour of Afghanistan. He also met soldiers’ families.

A Shropshire finance officer who stole £22,000 from the arts centre where she worked and splashed out on a holiday and a shopping spree has been ordered to pay back £437 by a crown court judge.

A 16-year-old south Shropshire boy suffered serious injuries following a collision involving a moped on a private drive.

Daniel Kawczynski has met Arriva Trains Wales managers to urge them to spruce up Shrewsbury’s station for the town. He met the firm’s commercial director Mike Bagshaw.

Thinking of going to the cinema this weekend? Here’s a tip: If it says the programme starts at 9.30pm, IT MEANS THE PROGRAMME  STARTS AT 9.30PM!

Thousands of postal workers in London will go on strike next Friday in a row over jobs and services, the CWU union has announced.

West Bromwich Building Society has announced a deal with debt investors which is expected to secure its financial future.

The inspirational story of a Shropshire man who defied doctors to walk again after a horrific motorbike crash has been named the county’s “good news” item of the week.

Our weekly round-up of Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures. This week we cover Hadley, Newtown, Craven Arms and, er,  Niagra Falls!

The FTSE 100 rose 0.11 per cent in early trading to 4,466.68 by 08:45 BST, led by a 5.16 per cent surge in BT Group's share price.

A Shirehall opposition group has welcomed the pledge of the new leader of Shropshire Council to safeguard small rural schools.

LETTER: I read Mark Norwood’s letter (Shropshire Star, June 5) regarding bigotry and I am quite shocked about his ignorance of Islamic teachings.

The number of managers and professional employees claiming Jobseekers Allowance has risen rapidly during the last year, new research shows.

'We lost Doug...' mumbles a disheveled and bloodied man into his mobile 'phone, sweating profusely in the rippling heat of the Nevada desert.

In 1972, writer-director Wes Craven - unknown at the time - shocked audiences with his grisly rape revenge thriller, The Last House On The Left.

British director Ken Loach shot his latest bittersweet slice of life on location in Manchester, and scores possibly his most mainstream, feel-good hit to date - except perhaps in Liverpool.

Director John Woo heads back east to helm the most expensive Chinese language film in history, set during the rule of the Han Dynasty in 208 AD.

She may not look much like Ricky Hatton or share the same attributes as the former World Champion boxer, but Shrewsbury pensioner Joan Hatton is a match for anyone on the Nintendo Wii.

Theatre Severn’s programme and marketing manager Adam Burgan, who has brought many major shows to the town including the musical Blood Brothers, is leaving to manage his own theatre in Somerset.

A first edition of Shrewsbury-born scientist Charles Darwin’s ground-breaking work On The Origin Of Species has sold for more than £15,000 at auction.

A screening featuring archive film footage of Shrewsbury including an early visit by King George V in 1914 and the Shrewsbury flying pickets – including actor Ricky Tomlinson – will be shown on June 18.

It grows no more than 9cms in length and weighs less than an egg – but soon the Hazel Dormouse could disappear from Shropshire altogether.

A classic hearse from the 1940s, which is believed to be one of only two in existence, is being lovingly restored in Shropshire.