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Andrew Owen discovers a part of Europe which offers a host of surprises.

Amateur snooker players have the chance to make their big break as the 2009/10 Shropshire Star Individual Knockout Competition is launched.

Meet Tom Petty – the Shropshire Star’s latest recruit.

A round-up of this week’s nostalgia pictures.

A row over changes to Shrewsbury’s bus timetables intensified today with a raft of complaints about the service levelled at bus company bosses.

BTCV conservation holidays are all about improving the environment and making a positive contribution to people and places visited. They offer an experience of a lifetime where volunteers get ity to meet people they wouldn’t normally meet and do things they didn’t think they could do.

Three year old Staffordshire Bull Terrier crossbreed, Squiffy, has been looking for a home at Dogs Trust Roden, near Telford, since January.

National treasure Des O’Connor is planning laugh-a-long group therapy when he visits Telford for a performance at The Place @ Oakengates Theatre. Andy Richardson caught up with the permatanned star.

Telford & Wrekin’s two MPs today spoke out in defence of the Princess Royal Hospital and spelled out exactly why they were against any plans to downgrade it.

A “narcissistic” Shropshire GP who persuaded a teenage acne patient with learning difficulties to perform a sex act on him at his surgery was struck off the medical register today.

Thieves broke into a Telford nursery and stole children’s bikes worth hundreds of pounds.

Plans will be soon presented to Shropshire hospital bosses on the “immediate measures” that need to be taken to ensure services remain sustainable at the county’s two main hospitals.

Shrewsbury Town have decided not to pursue their interest in Shropshire striker Nathan Hodge any further.

AFC Telford United have agreed a deal to extend Oxford defender Shane Killock’s loan – and are also in talks to complete the permanent signing of Barrow’s Sean Newton.

A woman who died after her car plunged more than 100ft down an embankment at a Shropshire beauty spot was believed to be in her 60s and was not from the county.

Two Shropshire bowlers have been banned from playing competitively for a year – and their club landed with a hefty fine – after they ran a competition which coincided with the county’s Crosfield Cup triumph.

The BBC today fought back against allegations of ‘ageism’ by announcing it was looking for an older older female newsreader to join its presenting team.

Paul Lewis holds up the crash helmet he wore when a routine skydive went wrong. Like its owner the helmet has taken a serious battering but it’s still in one piece.

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy accused his players of lacking belief after they lost 1-0 to 10-man Manchester United in the third round of the Carling Cup.

Pictures from Wolves’ 1-0 Carling Cup defeat against Manchester United at Old Trafford.

Low cost supermarket Netto has been given the go-ahead to build a £2 million supermarket on the site of a former pub in Telford, creating 20 jobs.

TV host Johnny Ball captivated his audience during two shows in Shropshire with a wealth of scientific facts and information – including explaining how 50 per cent of human genes are the same those found in a banana.

Almost 30 per cent of ambulance staff in the West Midlands and Shropshire experienced violence at the hands of patients during the last year.

A definitive cause of death cannot be established for a tiny baby whose body was discovered in a Shropshire river, an inquest has ruled.

Creation, the new film about the life of Charles Darwin, is to get a gala regional premiere  tonight in the town of his birth.

Watch all the match highlights from Telford Titans’ 8-2 defeat at home to Nottingham Lions in the English National Ice Hockey League.

Work on a multi-million pound master-plan to regenerate Wellington’s town centre and boost the area is set to begin next month.

The Wolverhampton Grand Theatre is staging Quadrophenia.

Former Stone Roses front man Ian Brown releases his sixth album, My Way, next week and is preparing for a tour which comes to Birmingham in December.

Extra tickets are being released for Muse’s sell-out gig at Birmingham NIA, it was announced this afternoon.