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Staff Sergeant Kim Hughes pays tribute to his colleague Olaf “Oz” Schmid after both were awarded the George Cross.

A teenager was today airlifted to hospital after the car she was in crashed into the front of a north Shropshire pub.

A 64-year-old man who grew 100 cannabis plants on land near Telford was today jailed for three years.

A ball in memory of Oswestry teenager Frankie McFall is being held in the town tonight.

Flowers have been laid at the scene of a crash where a man was fatally injured.

Hero Shropshire soldier Kim Hughes, awarded the George Cross for an “outstanding act” of bravery disposing of bombs in Afghanistan, today said it was all in a day’s work.

Ambulance response targets in Shropshire have been met only once in 10 months, a report to county health chiefs has revealed.

A kitten stranded 50ft up a tall tree in a Shropshire town for three days was back at home today with all nine lives intact after a dramatic rescue.

Millions of TV viewers will tonight find out whether a Shropshire dinner party queen has been crowned the UK’s best.

A tounf-up of Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures for the week ending Saturday, March 20.

Anti-supermarket campaigners in Oswestry have welcomed a move by councillors to defer any decision on which one of four rival store bids should get the go-ahead.

Kim Hughes’s mother today said she was “unbelievably proud” of her hero son.

Average petrol prices have risen 4p a litre in the last four weeks, taking them to the highest level since July 2008, the AA said today.

Blog: The late Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau and his former wife Margaret were Canada’s answer to John and Jackie Kennedy.

A nine-year-old boy was hit around the head with a magazine and his pocket money of just 50p stolen by three youths while he waited for friends at a Ludlow play park.

Angry parents, teachers, and governors were travelling to Llandrindod Wells today to lobby Powys County Council in a bid to stop the “devastation” of the county’s education system.

Two Army bomb disposal experts have been awarded the George Cross for tackling Taliban explosives in Afghanistan.

A heroic soldier from Shropshire has received the George Cross for defusing three bombs whilst trying to save the lives of five injured colleagues in Afghanistan.

If at first you don't succeed, fail miserably again.

Hong Kong legend Jackie Chan may be comfortably in his fifties, but he still manages to put many of the action genre's young pretenders to shame with his acrobatics in The Spy Next Door.

Letter: The recent appeal by me in the Shropshire Star for the location of the item known as the Admiral Benbow key, threw up many questions.

Letter: I am becoming very concerned about the control and standard of taxis and private hire vehicles in Shrewsbury.

Where Oswestry’s new multi-million pound supermarket should be built remains undecided today after council chiefs deferred all four rival applications.

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

A Shrewsbury man died from a stab wound to the chest, an inquest has heard.

Shropshire golfer Jamie Brittain has secured a remarkable 67,000,000-1 sporting achievement – two hole-in-ones in the same round!

A Shropshire businessman has spoken of his shock after his brother died from taking the mephedrone drug.

Intruders forced their way into a shop in Wellington before fleeing with thousands of pounds of greetings cards and Easter-related items.

Aldershot forward Omer Riza insists he has nothing to prove to Shrewsbury Town when he goes gunning for his former club on Saturday.

Former Shropshire cricket captain James Ralph has rocked Shropshire’s plans for the new Minor Counties cricket campaign by joining near rivals Herefordshire.