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Our extended Sunday Supplement looks back at the week’s headlines – and the stories behind them.

This week we’re following the enchanting story of a Shropshire woman’s life between two continents. Maureen Davies from Telford moved to Nanyuki in Kenya last year to care for her husband as he recovered from a life-saving operation.

The gap between house prices in Shropshire is dramatically increasing – with the average cost of a property rising across the county but falling in Telford & Wrekin.

Shrewsbury Town’s Craig Disley was today facing up to a mixed prognosis as he comes to terms with fresh injury heartache.

A Mid Wales woman who was involved in a serious three-vehicle crash has died. The 81-year-old, who was from the Knighton area, has been named locally as Pam Ryder.

AFC Telford United are preparing to write forward Steve Thompson out of their plans for a minimum of three weeks.

A Shropshire tourist attraction was celebrating today after being named the “best in the west” in a prestigious awards ceremony.

A Shropshire MP is to hold a summit meeting with the Government’s Rail Minister next week to discuss problems with overcrowding on a train service he has dubbed the “sardine express”.

The parents of pupils at a Mid Wales school have today rallied round their headteacher who has been suspended from her post.

Brian Robb is hoping to seal his return to the Shropshire amateur boxing coaching scene in the next two months.

A bull was rescued by firefighters after jumping over a fence and getting his legs stuck in a barbed wire fence.

It was a day medics thought Shrewsbury woman Claire Bethell would never see. Even when she astounded doctors by surviving a car crash which was caused by a drink-driver, Claire feared she would never walk again.

A Shropshire World War Two veteran who twice received the Distinguished Flying Cross has died at home following a short illness.

Reviewer’s rating **** Rex Key enjoys a trip to Coalbrookdale and discovers some excellent food and quality real ale.

The luck of the Irish run out for one hopeless romantic in Anand Tucker's implausible comedy, so it does, to be sure, to be sure.

If Hollywood has taught us anything over the decades, it's that resentment, regret and anguish simmer beneath the surface of almost every seemingly perfect family.

A cosy Midwestern town, population 1,260 - and rapidly depleting - is the pleasantly green and tranquil setting for a bloodthirsty apocalypse in The Crazies.

Paris: The city of romantic overtures, fine cuisine, sartorial elegance, and crunching cars chases along the Avenue des Champs-Elysees.

Television schedules are clogged with inspirational true stories of parents fighting to save their children from terrible, life-threatening illnesses.

Bosses at Shropshire’s independent filling stations today hit out at a Government tax hike that could force them to stop selling petrol on rural forecourts.

A Shropshire woman is the first in the UK to be convicted of failing to report treasure, experts said today.

Our round-up of Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures for the week ending Saturday, February 27, 2010.

Someone in Telford could be literally sitting on a £60,000-plus Lottery windfall after Camelot bosses revealed a winning ticket bought in the town had yet to be claimed.

Commuters crammed on to a Telford to Birmingham train service dubbed the “sardine express” are fainting due to severe overcrowding, it was claimed today.

Dr Linda Papadopoulos says the Internet requires regulation to protect children from damaging imagery.

Shropshire fight fans were out in force for a bonanza night of amateur boxing at Shrewsbury’s Lord HIll Hotel.

Simon Line has vowed Market Drayton Town’s season will not “fizzle out” as he prepares for his Greenfields homecoming tomorrow.

Newport are praying that a sickness bug does not rob them of five key players for tomorrow¹s crunch relegation clash at Kettering.

Manager Paul Simpson has urged Shrewsbury Town to make the Prostar Stadium a fortress during the promotion run-in – starting with tomorrow’s clash with Bournemouth.

AFC Telford United were today warned to prepare for a Blyth battle as they gear up for the longest trip of the Blue Square North campaign.