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Carl Jones takes a look at today’s news stories, including a tribute to Sir Bobby Robson from Shrewsbury Town manager Paul Simpson, and one of Madeley’s oldest residents talking about how the town has changed since the 1950s.

The parents of a little boy who died after being found in a slurry pit on a farm near Broseley today paid tribute to their “bright” and “adventurous” son, who was “generous to a fault”

In Sir Bobby Robson’s case, every last tribute and plaudit has been richly earned.

Tributes were today paid to a seven-year-old boy who died after falling into a slurry pit near Broseley.

A Shropshire climber who died after falling 600 feet on Snowdon in snow and ice was not properly equipped, an inquest heard.

Police in Oswestry are to hold a community meeting in Hengoed following two serious sexual assaults on women in the village.  

Two new members have been elected to town councils in Telford & Wrekin area.  

One hundred premises in Telford & Wrekin now have top ratings under the borough council’s Scores on the Doors scheme.

A fete held by a Shropshire hospital’s league of friends has been axed due to the swine flu pandemic.

Four people have been arrested in north Shropshire as part of a police crackdown on drug dealers.

Final preparations are being made for the 124th Oswestry Show to be held tomorrow at the Park Hall Showground.

A pregnant woman was treated for smoke inhalation after a blaze broke out at a Telford home today.

Rescue boats were scrambled when two young men in a dinghy were seen heading over a weir in a Shropshire river.

One of Britain’s leading female artists and star of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! is set to appear in Ludlow.

Rising vehicle prices have meant some consumers are no better off from the Government’s “cash for bangers” car-scrappage scheme, according to Which? Car magazine.

Oswestry firefighters had to rescue a teenage boy who got stuck high up in a tree after a dare went wrong.

Five Shropshire councillors have avoided suspension after a tribunal cleared them of breaching their code of conduct.

A chartered accountant from near Shifnal is celebrating his 50th birthday by cycling 300 miles for charity – and auctioning off a Wolves shirt signed by the 2008-9 Championship-winning squad.

Former England manager and Midlands football star Sir Bobby Robson has died at the age of 76.

Shrewsbury Town goalkeeper Chris Neal is on course to make a return from injury for tomorrow’s concluding pre-season friendly at Tranmere Rovers.

The body of a man pulled from a reservoir at a south Shropshire beauty spot has been formally identified as that of missing Shrewsbury man Laurence Edward Norton.

AFC Telford United believe they will face one of the sternest test of pre-season when Llanelli visit the New Bucks Head tomorrow.

I don’t know about you, but I cannot stand stories about cars.

Our film critic Carl Jones reviews a modern remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta.

Ben Bentley meets the man who meets – and then kills – those unwanted summer visitors.

Letter: I see in the paper that the traffic “commissars” at Shropshire Council have decreed that the national speed limits will no longer apply in Shropshire without any widespread consultation with road users.

Shropshire families have been keeping diaries during the swine flu outbreak. Here are the latest entries.

The Count met the ‘King of the Ring’ as two world champions collided.

A steady flow of “flu friends” are calling at collection points across Shropshire to pick-up antiviral drugs for people suffering from suspected swine flu.

More than 120 new gipsy “pitches” could be created in Shropshire under proposals being tabled by regional assembly bosses in Birmingham.