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Star Rating: **** ANDY RICHARDSON offers profuse praise for one of region’s most accomplished restaurants.

Community groups are being given the chance to help mark Principality Building Society’s 150th anniversary.

The podcast team take a look at the week’s events in a special Mothers’ Day episode.

For my last Twitter Talk column before heading off to pastures new, I was keen to talk to the man behind Shrewsbury Flower Show’s twitter feed, ahead of this year’s eagerly-anticipated annual event, now in its 123rd year.

Paul Simpson has marked his second anniversary as Shrewsbury Town boss by declaring: “I would love to be here for a long time to come. ”

Where have all Shropshire’s daffodils gone?

A body has been found in the River Severn at Shrewsbury.

Shropshire’s Jane Bennett bowled over Michael Winner – Britain’s toughest food critic – to win two of his coveted Dining Stars.

A husband and wife were injured when their motorcycle was involved in a crash on a Shropshire main road.

The family of Hugh McFall, who is believed to have killed his wife and daughter before taking his own life, have said the support of friends and family has been a light in their darkness.

A Telford company which folded with the loss of 30 jobs owed creditors more than £720,000, it emerged today.

A giant discount food store has been unveiled as the latest addition to a multi-million pound development to transform derelict land in Newport.

A lorry overturned spilling straw bales onto electricity cables in a village near Shrewsbury.

People living on unadopted roads in the Oswestry area may have to push their bins hundreds of yards in future to get them emptied.

Campaigners today gave their reaction to claims that Shropshire taxpayers will be forced to pay out nearly £11 million a year to run a controversial incinerator in the county.

To the casual observer, they may look like ordinary horses. But the thoroughbreds make up Shropshire’s field of equine stars.

Shropshire pooches and their owners have been named among the top dogs at DFS Crufts 2010.

A river boat is to take tourists along a stretch of the River Severn in Shropshire for the first time in five years.

A family supermarket and petrol station on the Shropshire/Powys border has beaten off competition from more than 800 garages to claim top spot in a mystery shopper scheme.

A date has been set for this year’s Newport Show – and organisers say it has all the makings of being a record-breaker.

A Shropshire man has made national news after using Google’s Street View service to map out his life story in pictures.

People living on a mountain near Oswestry could be forced to push their rubbish bins hundreds of yards for collection in the future. Find out more here.

When American and British forces withdraw completely from Iraq - a military strategy which seems unthinkable seven years into the campaign - the lasting legacy won't be peace and democracy.

The lunatics are taking over the asylum, or that's what Martin Scorsese's impeccably crafted psychological thriller would have us believe.

Hollywood has enjoyed a long love affair with man's best friend.

For the second time in as many years, Scandinavian cinema comes up trumps with a stylish and invigorating thriller guaranteed to have audiences teetering excitedly on the edge of their seats.

Tory leader David Cameron’s wife Samantha gives a revealing TV interview.

The mystery of the whereabouts of a memorial to one of Shrewsbury’s most famous sons has been solved – thanks to the Shropshire Star.

America has Woodstock, Somerset has Glastonbury and Shropshire has Cockfest, or at least it did until internet pranksters poked fun at the name apparently causing organisers to change it.

Shropshire Star movie expert Carl Jones casts his eye over The Green Zone, starring Matt Damon.