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These are the first amazing images of a hidden burial vault that lay undiscovered underneath a south Shropshire church for 150 years.

Raiders broke into a Shropshire pub in the early hours of today, snatching more than £3,000 in cash and jewellery while the occupants slept just feet away.

Watch Chris Hudson’s video review of AFC Telford United’s clash with Solihull Moors in the Blue Square North.

A woman’s bank cards were snatched as she loaded her shopping into a car in a copycat theft at a Telford retail park.

A debate over who should get the credit for the discovery of the famous Shropshire mammoth in 1986 has taken another twist with the former county woman who alerted the authorities declaring: “I have never, ever, said that I found the bones”.

Letter: Oh dear how is Shropshire fire service going to manage with the proposed budget cuts?

Letter: Re a quote from our MP on April 10, 2009 in response to a Virgin Trains proposal for routes to London from Shrewsbury, being shelved. Daniel Kawczynski, MP for Shrewsbury, said it was “very important” WSMR was supported, but he believed in “open competition”.

Letter: I have been delivering Meals On Wheels for the past 25 years. If the council expects the majority of people on my round to work out how to microwave frozen meals, they are living in cloud-cuckoo-land.

Drinkers can raise a glass to the patron saint of England when a celebration beer festival returns to a small Shropshire market town.

Organisers of this year’s Royal Welsh Smallholder and Garden Festival are hoping to attract more than 25,000 visitors.

Youngsters at a Telford & Wrekin school are waiting for the frosts to end before they improve their vegetable garden.

Shropshire is proving to be a big change for Russian youngsters who were taken hostage and who lost friends in three-day school siege.

After a third Blue Square North game without a goal, it doesn’t take a genius to work out where AFC Telford United’s main problem is right now.

Shrewsbury Town were responsible for ending League Two’s longest winless streak on Saturday.

Bowled over by bully-boy tactics, Market Drayton Town could find no way back at Goole after missing a crop of early chances to get their UniBond League South clash off to a flying start.

A 41-year-old man who ploughed his car into a group of men as they walked home from a Shropshire pub was today jailed for five years.

A woman suffered leg and chest injuries after being stabbed following a fight at a Telford home.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw refused to reveal further details of Jon Venables’ recall to prison as he updated MPs on the case.

Seven people have been injured – one of them seriously – in a spate of road accidents over the weekend.

Shrewsbury Town manager Paul Simpson today set about picking up the pieces of the damaging defeat to Grimsby, insisting: “We can’t dwell on it.”

Hundreds of civil servants launched a 48-hour strike today across Shropshire and Mid Wales joining colleagues around the country in a row over redundancy pay.

AFC Telford United will this week step up their search for new recruits – as midfielder Chris Nurse prepares to return to the United States.

Adrian Gunnell’s hopes of appearing in the televised stages of the World Snooker Championships are over for another year.

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy is confident his side will start picking up points soon – despite another Molineux defeat at the hands of Manchester United.

Does anyone actually understand the offside rule?

Emergency services are being snarled up in traffic jams in Newtown due to ongoing problems with a new set of traffic lights in the town.

Up to 500 homes and businesses in a north Shropshire town were without water today after a main water pipe burst.

Shropshire Star movie critic Carl Jones looks at who won what at this year’s Academy Awards.

Motorists face more traffic misery in Shrewsbury as another set of temporary traffic lights is due to be installed in the town.

Hundreds of campaigners marched through a Shropshire town centre to show their opposition to plans for a new multi-million pound supermarket.