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An Oswestry football team has had its club kit worth £250 stolen after a shed was broken into.

With unemployment figures at their highest for ten years, Women in Rural Enterprise (WiRE) are encouraging women to see the situation as a real opportunity to start their own business.

“Millions of people had looked at the world in a certain way for so long,” says Athlete frontman Joel Pott “But it only took one sighting to blow it all apart.” That, in a nutshell, is the Black Swan Theory, from which Athlete’s majestic fourth album takes its title.

Police seized more than 100 cannabis plants capable of producing drugs with a street value of at least £40,000-a-year in an early morning raid on a house in Telford.

Motown meets Atlantic Records and The Philadelphia Sound when the legendary Four Tops and Temptations are joined by very special guests The Drifters and The Three Degrees for a dazzling 10 date UK Tour, including a show at The NIA Academy, Birmingham, on Monday  March 15, 2010.

Telford’s top detective today welcomed a 40-month jail sentence handed down to a Telford man who burgled 27 homes in the space of a month.

A Shropshire town council has been landed with a tax bill of £25,000 following a blunder, it emerged today.

Police hunting a rapist who subjected a young woman to a terrifying attack in Telford today offered a £10,000 reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction.

A Shropshire primary school has been told by Ofsted that it must improve its performance.

Boss Paul Simpson has urged fans to give Shrewsbury Town’s rising young stars a chance – after more frustration in his bid to strengthen his threadbare squad.

AFC Telford United hope to have three new faces on board in time for Saturday’s crunch Blue Square North clash at Alfreton Town.

Ludlow Cricket Club have been dragged firmly into the Marston’s Shropshire Premier League relegation scrap after being docked eight points.

A woman held by police after a man died from puncture wounds at a house in Bridgnorth has been released on bail.

Dire Straits legend Mark Knopfler has announced details of a solo UK tour, including a gig at the LG Arena at The NEC, Birmingham, on May 23, 2010.

Highways Agency bosses have refused permission for speed signs on a stretch of a dangerous Shropshire road – because there is no room, road safety campaigners claimed today.

About 750 homes could be built as part of a new urban village planned for Oswestry.

The company behind a scheme to build 36 homes at the site of a historic Shropshire mill has gone into liquidation, it was revealed today.

A taxi driver was attacked and robbed of nearly £400 in takings moments after finishing his shift in Shrewsbury early today.

An 89-year-old woman was recovering today after being pushed into a hedge and robbed of her handbag in a south Shropshire town by a young woman.

Hundreds of homes in a Shropshire village were left without water after two pipes burst.

A major fire raging on a Shropshire industrial estate could take weeks to burn out rather than days, police officers have warned today.

Fishermen in Shropshire are being urged to clean up their act after a swan was left with a three-pronged barbed hook embedded in its neck.

Sisters are doin' it for themselves - covering up murder, that is - in Stewart Hendler's competent remake of the 1983 slasher The House On Sorority Row.

The corruptive power of celebrity casts a long, dark shadow over Victorian London in Oliver Parker's take on Oscar Wilde's gothic horror, adapted for the screen by Toby Finlay.

Two men, whose criminal records each stretch back more than 40 years, have been given suspended prison sentences for stealing a £800 boiler from a Shrewsbury DIY store.

The biggest and best food festival in Shropshire starts tomorrow in Ludlow — and Shropshire Star readers are being offered reduced admission and free food and drink from producers.

A £1.7 million state-of-the-art tennis centre is to be built in Telford, it has been revealed.

Letter: Having tried the energy saving bulbs, as well as the alternative LED ones, I can say that both are vastly inferior to the old tried and tested type.

Amy Bould finds a spa break at Austria’s Hoteldorf Grüner Baum to be just what the doctor ordered.

A group that brings a touch of Hollywood to Shropshire’s smallest villages has been told its future is assured for the next 12 months.