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Assistant Editor Carl Jones brings us a festive podcast from the Shropshire Star’s headquarters, in Ketley. With tough fixtures ahead, will Shrewsbury Town boss Paul Simpson enjoy a Happy Christmas?

A kind-hearted Shropshire youngster has collected and donated dozens of toys to give to children less fortunate than himself.

Shrewsbury Town’s fans failed to get any Christmas cheer at Rochdale after seeing their team defeated 4-0.

AFC Telford United are taking precautions to ensure their home Boxing Day derby with Stafford Rangers beats the big chill – a week before the game.

As well as the colourful mix of businesses and individuals making expert use of Twitter, charities are increasingly turning to social media too. We talk to Lucy Proctor from Severn Hospice to discover about how she’s using Twitter to spread the word.

The injury curse which has dogged Shrewsbury Town for much of the first half of the League Two campaign has struck again.

Wolves manager Mick McCarthy has admitted his actions in the last week have turned up the pressure on him for tomorrow’s crucial Barclays Premier League clash with Burnley.

Shropshire and Mid Wales were today braced for the worst weather of the winter as the big freeze tightened its grip on Britain.

More than 250 private hire drivers in Shropshire are to stage a seven-hour “walkout” tonight – one of the busiest party nights of the festive season.

About 40 jobs were created today as a discount high street chain opened its doors to the public in Shrewsbury at the site of the towns former Woolworths store.

Bruce Springsteen once sang about a small town being all “whitewashed windows and vacant stores”. He could have been singing about many of our market towns.

Hundreds of people packed into a Shropshire nightclub to see the ’80s pop legend Boy George take to the stage for a DJ set.

A main road in Shropshire remained shut today as fire crews continued to bring a huge barn blaze nearby under control.

A Telford company is celebrating a fitting early Christmas present – after buying the company which makes the foil most of us cook our turkey in.

A company manager had a lucky escape after an articulated lorry left the road and ploughed through the front counter of a business in Mid Wales.

A good samaritan who found a wad of £20 notes on a Shropshire industrial estate has been rewarded for his honesty after handing it in to police.

Shrewsbury Town’s League Two match with leaders Rochdale has beaten the icy weather.

A Polish factory worker brandished a knife at five soldiers in a Shropshire kebab shop, a court heard.

A Shropshire builder who was crushed when a classroom roof collapsed on top of him died as the result of an accident, an inquest has ruled.

A greatest hits show wowed fans when Madness brought their Nutty sound to the Midlands

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take part in a Norwegian adventure has arisen for a young physically-disabled person in south Shropshire.

A package which caused a bomb scare in Welshpool turned out to be a parcel of discarded court papers, police have revealed.

A Shropshire family has decided to call time on their florist’s after 30 years in business.

It's been 12 years since James Cameron became king of the world with the Oscar-winning Titanic.

They're not big, and the film's certainly not clever, but there is something oddly entertaining about singing chipmunks.

Those naughty minxes from St Trinian's are back to their old tricks in Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson's lacklustre sequel to their rambunctious 2007 comedy, inspired by the cartoons of Ronald Searle.

A 36-year-old Ludlow man has been given a suspended prison sentence for being in possession of more than 400 indecent images of children.

The Shropshire-based father of Strictly Come Dancing star Ricky Whittle today said he was delighted people in the county were backing his son who is bidding to win tonight’s final of the hit BBC show.

Sports fans across Shropshire and further afield were today keeping an anxious eye on the weather ahead of the weekend’s action.

A Shropshire man in his 60s has died after the moped he was riding was involved in a smash with an articulated lorry in Cheshire.