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Detectives were today visiting Telford mosques as part of the hunt for three attackers who left a man fighting for his life.

A fraudster fleeced the husband of a Shropshire lottery winner out of £700,000, a court was told today.

Watch today’s news bulletin video, featuring stories about the local election count in Shrewsbury, Shropshire-based Big Brother contestants and details of a moving trip to Normandy.

Students at a Shropshire school have had their leavers’ dinner axed after a number of them acted in an “uncivilised manner” on their last day, reportedly throwing flour and egg bombs.

The count for yesterday’s Shropshire Council elections is due to begin at 12.30pm.

Two Shropshire people have walked into the Big Brother house for its 10th series.

Customers at a Shropshire pub are getting a chirpy welcome from a special family which has taken up residence in an ashtray.

A controversial new £100 million bypass planned for Shrewsbury would provide a massive boost to business – bringing new firms into the town, creating new jobs and helping it compete with other places, it was claimed today.

The building of a multi-million pound primary school in Telford’s new “urban village” will finally begin this month after a delay due to a slump in the housing market.

Major development work is being planned for Ludlow Racecourse.

New-signing Craig Disley today checked into Shrewsbury Town, confident his drop to League Two will only prove a temporary one.

The holding company controlled by Liverpool co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett has announced losses of more than £40 million in the year to August 2008.

Naturalist and television presenter Professor David Bellamy has warned that the global recession means the need to support events such as this year’s West Mid Show in Shrewsbury has never been more important.

AFC Telford United will field a string of trialists in their pre-season friendlies as they bid to find a winning blend for the 2009-10 season.

Defendants waiting outside a Mid Wales court are “intimidating” customers leaving many elderly people too afraid to go out angry shopkeepers said today.

A Shropshire man was today one of about 1,000 British atomic test veterans who won their High Court bid for the right to sue for compensation.

Youngsters from a Welshpool primary school were “in hysterics” with laughter – after the train they were on went steaming ahead without the trip organiser.

Shropshire’s busy A5 and parts of the M54 are to be closed overnight for three weeks for maintenance work.

Powis Hall could soon be getting a makeover from a top British designer after making it into the top 10 of a national competition.

A man was injured after diving out of the window of a bungalow in south Shropshire after a blaze broke out at the property today.

The FTSE 100 was up in early trading today with strong gains for miners.

Our weekly round-up of Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures.

Polished. Highly Intelligent. Unstoppable – and the other one’s a Terminator. Carl Jones looks at this week’s big new release.

LETTER: It breaks my heart to see the vandalism being done by Telford & Wrekin Council to Dale End Park, Ironbridge.

Pictures from the delayed Shropshire Council election count.

A top public health expert in Shropshire today urged people with flu-like symptoms to stay at home, after the county’s first case of swine flu was confirmed.

People-watching TV show Big Brother is back tonight for its 10th anniversary. For the Shropshire man who won the first series, life has never been quite the same, writes Ben Bentley.

An estimated 230,000 people are registered to vote in today’s elections for the new Shropshire Council today.

Tributes were paid today to a 63-year-old Oswestry widow found murdered in her own home.

Shropshire’s four NHS trusts had already joined forces and been on alert to tackle the potential risk of swine flu ahead of the first case in the county being confirmed.