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Near the beginning of Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore's bad taste road movie, a coma patient is woken from his four-year slumber by a blow to the head from a baseball bat.

Birmingham’s newest music venue erupted as the town’s own electro rock band, Editors, took to the stage of the O2 Academy in Bristol Street.

Mike Sargeant and Jan Bromley from Alvin Road, Wem, with a trophy won at the County of Salop Steam Rally at Onslow, near Shrewsbury, last month for their restored Morris Minor “Jeremy”.

A Telford man was today sent to prison for seven years for the “brutal and degrading” rape of a woman in her hotel room in Scotland.

Watch our video review of AFC Telford United’s 2-1 defeat at home to Northwich Victoria in the Blue Square North.

The number of people contracting MRSA and clostridium difficile has fallen, new figures have shown.

Paul Murray has called on Shrewsbury Town’s entire team to ‘tighten up’ defensively as they prepare for a local derby with Crewe.

AFC Telford United manager Rob Smith today drafted in three fresh faces ahead of tomorrow’s testing Blue Square North trip to Alfreton.

New Wolves striker Stefan Maierhofer can have an immediate effect on the team’s attack – and be their Peter Crouch.

A Shrewsbury post office which closed when its subpostmistress was put on “precautionary” suspension following a routine audit is to reopen on Monday.

The society behind Shropshire’s West Mid Show is facing a cash crisis with at least £50,000 needed to help it battle through the recession and the slow winter months.

A man has been arrested in connection with a robbery in which a taxi driver had nearly £400 in takings stolen just moments after finishing his shift.

Staff at a Shropshire company where there was a massive rubber fire are being “made ill” by acrid smoke still wafting around the site, it was claimed today.

A landlady today launched a bid for compensation from water giant Severn Trent after hundreds of homes were left without water in a village near Bridgnorth.

About 20,000 visitors to Ludlow were expected to bring more than £1 million to the town as its annual food festival started today.

Vandals put lives at risk when they set fire to wheelie bins at a block of flats in Shrewsbury, police said today.

Join James Shaw as he reports from the opening day of this year’s Ludlow Food Festival and brings you all the day’s headlines.

Real ale drinkers across Shropshire are drinking a toast to their favourite tipple after the launch of the latest edition of a national beer guide in the county.

Shropshire’s two main hospitals have been praised for not overcharging “vulnerable” cancer patients in their car parks.

A 26-year-old woman who defrauded a Shropshire charity where she worked of £8,460 has avoided a jail term.

Our weekly round-up of the Shropshire Star’s nostalgia pictures.

People will be able to find out about the latest developments as part of Shrewsbury’s cycling town status at a forum next week.

Newport could become the county’s latest tourist hub if plans for a new heritage centre in the town are given the go-ahead.

It races from 0-62mph in a fraction under seven seconds, before reaching a top speed of 146mph. It’s acceleration, even in the middle range, is ferocious. The John Cooper Works convertible is, quite simply, scintillating to drive, says Andy Richardson.

Between now and October 19, Honda is donating £5 to BTCV for every test drive of the new Insight hybrid car. Available at all participating Honda dealerships across the UK and Northern Ireland, this fundraising initiative is part of the company’s ‘Everyone Wants To Be Good’ campaign.

Letter: How can those building the  sculpture  in Mardol Gardens, with all the modern technology at their finger tips, get the final alignment so wrong?

Letter: I am so angry that although most of the residents and town council of Bishop’s Castle were against the proposed biomass plant, the inspector has granted permission.

Major re-surfacing work looks set to take place on a Shropshire road where a 17-year-old student was killed in a car crash – just over a year after a previous scheme was completed.

Dozens of elderly residents in a Powys town have been left stranded because of cuts to a bus service, claim campaigners who want to get the service reinstated.

Up to 100 bats have been found living in a flood culvert under a bridge in Powys. The Environment Agency said it had found the mammals living under the bridge in Llanymynech, near Welshpool.