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Residents will have to wait until the end of the month before a lifeline service which closed in their Shropshire village reopens, it was announced today.

Watch today’s Shropshire Star newscast, including details of a new hospital appointments plan in Shropshire and worries over fly-tipping.

Highlights from Stalybridge v AFC Telford United on Tuesday, August 11.

It was a horrible case of déjà vu for Shropshire – as their Drakes Pride Junior County Championship hopes were sunk by Warwick & Worcester for the second year running.

Nice weather for ducks – or is it? This summer has proved so much of a washout that even the ducks have had enough.

The family of Shropshire teenager Charlotte Hartey, who died after her tonsillitis was diagnosed as swine flu, has launched an online campaign calling for over-the-phone diagnosis to be axed.

A life-long Shropshire resident today spoke of his sadness at plans to expand a quarry saying he has been given “three minutes to save 10 million years of history” when he speaks at a planning meeting tomorrow.

A Shropshire gun dog handler fears that she and her 20 dogs could be left homeless after she was told her services on a county estate were no longer required.

Police in Whitchurch are appealing for witnesses to a “seemingly unprovoked” assault on a man as he walked with friends.

Boss Rob Smith has hailed midfielder Carl Rodgers as the jewel in AFC Telford United’s crown.

Further work is to be carried out to correct Shrewsbury’s £350,000 Darwin sculpture after it was hit by technical problems meaning it is out of alignment.

Shropshire’s cricketers will have an outside chance of creating history in the final Minor Counties Championship game of the season later this month.

The brother of a paraglider pilot killed in a mid-air crash in Shropshire today paid tribute to an “adventurous and independent guy”.

Britain’s unemployment crisis today hit a 14-year high as the recession claimed another 220,000 jobs, with the number of people out of work totalling 2.43 million.

Paul Simpson and Roy Keane have united to hail Shrewsbury Town after they came within a whisker of claiming the Championship scalp of Ipswich.

A 29-year-old Shropshire woman who made a desperate call to police saying she was lost and had fallen in a ditch was spotted in a county pub the following morning, it was claimed today.

Council bosses are planning to close off Oswestry’s landmark iron railway footbridge to pedestrians for up to five years.

Hundreds of people are expected to flock into Powys this weekend for the 115th Montgomery Show.

A Welshpool man who punched a shop assistant when he would not let him buy alcohol has been jailed for 28 days.

Work is to be carried out this month to clear overgrown areas at a Shropshire cemetery where an elderly woman was targeted in a serious sexual assault.

Staff at a north Shropshire surfacing company have been temporarily laid off due to a funding collapse, bosses have said.

It’s nice when children ask questions about the world around them – but it’s not so nice when you cannot give them an answer.

A Shropshire man is appealing for help in identifying a mysterious flying object. Ted Goodman, from Shrewsbury, was staying with relatives near Llangollen over the weekend.

It has taken just four days and two matches. But by 10.30pm last night, the pre-season uncertainty gripping Shrewsbury Town fans over the shallowness of their squad had been swept aside by a genuine optimism and belief for the months that lie ahead.

The unity of the AFC Telford United camp shone through a gloomy Manchester night as the visitors scored an eye-catching triumph.

LETTER: I found used hypodermic needles on the floor of the men’s public toilets in Whitchurch.

Letter: After reading your article regarding Bridgnorth Hospital being a “top” hospital, I thought it only right I should pass comment.

Forget what you think you know about youth hostels, says Ben Bentley.

A Shropshire woman who thought she would never walk again after she was hit by a car driven by a drink-driver will walk down the aisle to tie the knot.

A Shropshire MP today called for a parliamentary debate on why the Government dropped a bid to deport Royal Shrewsbury Hospital doctor Mohammed Asha after previously maintaining he was a threat to national security.