shropshirestar.com

More than a quarter of a million children could be risking their health by using sunbeds, a charity has warned.

Cancel the London Summer Olympic Games! Our time on the third rock from the sun will come to a dramatic end on December 21, 2012, when planets align as decreed by the Mayan calendar.

A film about the first woman of aviation - who recklessly inspired millions of women to break gender boundaries and whose life was cut short in enduringly mysterious circumstances - should be the stuff of studio executives' dreams, right? Well, apparently not, going by the new biopic of American icon Amelia Earhart.

'If you can remember Woodstock, you weren't there' - or so the saying goes.

A Shropshire team has reached the national finals of the English Table Tennis Association’s prestigous Willmott Cup.

No-one likes to see people parking in disabled spaces when they are clearly flouting the rules. But what happens when it’s blatantly obvious the person is in a wheelchair even if they haven’t got a disabled badge?

Snooker fans are hoping for some tasty action in Telford next month – with Pukka Pies signing on as the new title sponsors for the prestigious UK Championship.

A £3.25 billion scheme to improve more than 2,000 railway stations, including four in Shropshire, was unveiled today by Network Rail.

Organisers of the West Mid Show were proposing to change the event’s name just weeks before it went into liquidation.

A book in memory of every Newport man who died in the First and Second World Wars has been presented to its town council.

As the weather chills in the UK, people in Adelaide in Australia are experiencing their first heatwave of November. See the video here.

Shropshire’s Scott Drummond got off to a solid start at the Hong Kong Open as he bids to keep his place among the golfing elite.

A fitness trainer set no less than four world records during a marathon day at Shropshire’s Hope House children’s hospice.

A motorcyclist has died following an accident in Shropshire today.

A town warden will soon be patrolling Oswestry for the first time — issuing on-the-spot fines of £80 to litter louts and dog owners who allow their pets to foul the streets.

People in Powys are being urged to have their say in an electoral review which could see the number of county councillors cut by more than half.

Shropshire will have an interest for the first time ever in the national finals of the English Table Tennis Association’s elite Willmott Cup.

Shropshire darter Ted Hankey could get his wish of a clash with Phil Taylor next week – 11 months after challenging the sport’s greatest ever player to a showdown.

Chairman Lee Carter believes a revitalised AFC Telford United should be aiming to be back in the Blue Square North play-off places by Christmas.

Former Shrewsbury goalkeeper Scott Bevan believes Town will come out “like a house on fire” against his current club Torquay – in a bid to forget their FA Cup humiliation.

A Shropshire school which is closed because more than half of the pupils and staff are absent or displaying flu-like symptoms is likely to remain shut this week.

Hard-up Shropshire residents struggling to meet the cost of rising energy bills prices are targeting a community wood and chopping down trees for fuel, it was claimed today.

Jobs are in jeopardy at Telford & Wrekin Council under plans to dramatically shake-up the way the authority is structured, it was revealed today.

Matt Burton has been unveiled as the new manager of soaring UniBond League club Market Drayton Town.

The body of a man has been discovered by a railway line causing some disruption to trains on the Hereford to Shrewsbury line.

The Specials returned for two special nights in their native West Midlands

An oak tree planted on Armistice Day, 1918, in memory of the Shropshire soldiers who died during the First World War is set to be cut down despite years of campaigning to protect it.

Yesterday’s national service marking the passing of the World War I generation was much more than that, writes Shirley Tart from Westminster Abbey.

Letter: It is sad that the MP for Shrewsbury has entered the campaign for provision of services at local hospitals into the political arena.

Letter: John Locke opined that if a sovereign government transfers the sovereignty freely granted by its ancestors to an external power without the consent of its people, it ceases to be sovereign and thereby forfeits allegiance.