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The tug of war between nurture and nature continues to divide experts in the fields of child development and education.

Based on the beloved 1978 children's book by Judi and Ron Barrett, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is a comical fantasy about one man's pursuit of his dreams.

Writer-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor abandon the turbo-charged action of Crank and its sequel for grim futurism in this all-guns-blazing variation on The Running Man.

Loosely adapted from Alan Clarke's seminal 1989 TV drama, The Firm is a brutal and unflinching portrait of hooliganism and male bonding, set to a funky soundtrack of The Gap Band, The Jam, Kool & The Gang, Donna Summer and Tears For Fears.

Have you ever met your hero and been disappointed? The TV host Justin Lee Collins claims Bruce Forsyth was “very rude” to him. Tell us your stories here.

More than 200 people packed a meeting in Telford to give health chiefs a rough ride over plans which could see the Princess Royal Hospital downgraded in the next three to four years.

If his opening salvo proves a worthwhile indicator, the golfing career ahead of Jonathan Gidney is packed with plenty of promise.

This is what the NHS Telford & Wrekin Board agreed at a meeting on Tuesday, September 22.

Health bosses in Shropshire have been told moving the county’s acute services to a single site would help to “maintain a safe service” and “improve on quality”.

Four Midlands rock bands will be heading north next month to take part in the BoobAid 2009 charity concert for Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

Shropshire’s gold medal-winning judoka Sarah Adlington has been praised along with her British team-mates after a triumphant GB World Cup.

A woman has died after her car plunged down a steep embankment at a Shropshire beauty spot.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested over an alleged sex attack on a teenage girl in Shrewsbury’s Quarry in broad daylight.

Motorists are bracing themselves for another month of traffic chaos in Shrewsbury with roadworks set to start on a main route into the town on Monday.

Shropshire’s Welti Tennis & Leisure Centre is hosting one of the most prestigious ladies indoor tennis tournaments in the country, at the Shrewsbury venue this week.

Market Drayton Town’s roller-coaster campaign rattled on to new heights – and depths – with another remarkable performance last night.

The Premier League aspirations of Prees have suffered a double blow – before the play-offs have even started.

AFC Telford United are celebrating a £6,000 bonus payment – with chairman Lee Carter declaring: “It will make a big difference.”

Shropshire golfer Jonathan Gidney was this afternoon bidding to maintain his strong start to life as a professional, writes JAMES GARRISON.

Determined defender Dean Holden has warned his upwardly mobile Shrewsbury Town team-mates not to rest on their laurels.

Wolves manager Mick McCarthy has warned his players they will face a massive test in the Carling Cup tonight against Manchester United from the first minute to the last – whenever that may be!

Flowers have been left at the scene of an accident which killed a 20-year-old driver.

Young Hayley Purvis has created a monster but it could be sitting pretty among Shropshire gardeners. Hayley has grown what she thinks is quite possibly the tallest sunflower in the county.

Council highways chiefs are to investigate calls to make Oswestry town centre a 20mph zone.

An extra £100,000 of taxpayers money was today approved to be spent on a controversial sculpture to mark the 200th anniversary of Shrewsbury’s most famous son Charles Darwin.

Furious residents left a crunch health meeting in Telford convinced that the future of acute services at the Princess Royal Hospital is doomed.

An airman who was locked up and kicked out of the RAF after being convicted of a sex attack on a sleeping woman at a Shropshire base has been cleared at the Court of Appeal.

A driver who died in a road smash in Telford was today named as 20-year-old Jamie Thomas, from Leegomery.

Fans of progressive rock are in for a treat with the announcement of three Midlands concerts by giants of the genre.

A five-and-a-half foot long snake that had been reported missing from a home in Oswestry has been found safe and well — under his owner’s bed.