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Iceland has agreed to begin repaying British savers after the UK government had to intervene in the wake of the failure of the Scandinavian state's banking system.

The Shropshire Star editorial team bring you their weekly review and preview of events in the county via the latest podcast.

Jubilant Shropshire Tories are today celebrating a historic landslide victory in elections to the county’s new unitary council.

A fraudster has been jailed after fleecing the alcoholic former husband of a Shropshire lottery winner out of more than half a million pounds by keeping him “holed up and boozed up”.

Our focus this week is on three Shropshire marketing professionals in public relations, web design and IT marketing as we take a look at why twittering can mean business.

Midlands rockers Magnum return with a new album which songwriter Tony Clarkin thinks may be his best yet. Ian Harvey talks to the Staffordshire-based guitarist.

Former Shrewsbury Town and Telford United manager Jake King has ended his six-year absence from football.

AFC Telford United look to have missed out on one of their top summer transfer targets – with a move for Barrow striker Nick Rogan all but dead.

Assistant manager John McMahon has left Shrewsbury Town after landing a dream job amongst Rafa Bentiez’s backroom team at Liverpool.

Two Shropshire darters have guaranteed themselves the biggest cheques of their careers – and one could have more to come.

The Conservatives have won control of the new Shrewsbury Town Council. See the full results here.

Captain James Ralph is eyeing a minimum of four victories from six games as Shropshire prepare to launch their Minor Counties Championship campaign tomorrow.

Former Shrewsbury schoolboy Kris Donnelly avoided the chance to secure a Friday night date when bored Big Brother housemates tried to spice up their evening.

A former Shropshire paedophile linked to the Madeleine McCann investigation has admitted seeing the toddler before she vanished, it was claimed today.

Telford & Wrekin Council today hit out at hospital services in the borough and demanded urgent action to reverse the slide in standards it fears.

A 23-year-old robber from the Shrewsbury area who spat at his victim during the attack and was later traced because of a DNA match has been jailed for 36 months.

A man was due to appear in court today charged with the murder of a 63-year-old Shropshire woman.

Love blossoms when two lonely people least expect it in writer-director Joel Hopkins' gently paced and incredibly charming romance, set in bustling, modern-day London.

LETTER: I was driving through Morda, near Oswestry, one day last week, and noticed a community support officer (CSO) standing in the open by the side of the road as I approached.

Star rating: *** Lisa Bailey finds the ideal dining out location for a ‘volume eater’

Star rating: **** Andy Richardson is bowled over by traditional food.

The Conservative Party dominates the map of local Government in Shropshire after strong results in the local elections.

Sixteen Big brother hopefuls have entered what producers are calling the meanest house yet.

Shropshire Big Brother contestant Kris Donnelly has always wanted to be on a reality show and has been a model as well as doing televi- sion adverts in New Zealand, his family revealed today.

Friends of Shropshire Big Brother contestant Freddie Fisher said it was no surprise he had made it onto the show and wished him luck.

A top doctor has rallied to the defence of Shropshire hospital boss Tom Taylor after a parish council unanimously declared it had no confidence in him.

A community campaigner fighting plans for an opencast coal mine in Telford claimed supporters of the scheme would have “blood on their hands” if the scheme was finally given the go-ahead.

An investigation has been ordered into why there was a huge delay in announcing the results of the Shropshire Council elections.

The FTSE 100 was up on Friday with gains for miners leading the way.

Caroline Flint, the Minister for Europe, has quit the Government, accusing the Prime Minister of treating her as “female window dressing”.