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AFC Telford United boss Rob Smith has vowed to keep fighting, insisting: “The players are still behind me.”

Skipper Graham Coughlan has been ruled out of Shrewsbury Town’s home clash with in-form Cheltenham tonight – and is set for a minimum three-week absence.

Mick McCarthy has hailed the impact of Wolves loanee Michael Mancienne as a holding midfielder but insists he will have to be “top drawer” in the role to get into the Chelsea side.

A stretch of road in Shropshire’s World Heritage site is to be ripped up and replaced after it was battered by the severe winter weather.

David Cameron today launched the Conservatives’ manifesto, outlining his vision for Britain and inviting people to join him.

The national titles continue to stack up for Shropshire’s short mat bowlers.

The UK Independence Party, which campaigns on a platform of withdrawal from the European Union, launched its manifesto today with a claim that pulling out of Europe would save tens of billions of pounds.

Councillors today rallied round a Shropshire Liberal Democrats candidate who has been forced to withdraw from the General Election battle.

Detectives today revealed the key to solving an alleged murder plot during which a shot was fired in Telford lies within the British Pakistani community.

A new style food and drink festival is to take place across the north Shropshire border in September.

An etching which appears to show Adolf Hitler playing chess with Lenin and the board on which they played could collectively fetch up to £80,000 at a Shropshire auction.

Blog: Like the Budget, election manifestos are leaked (or more accurately briefed) to such an extent nowadays that they cease to become “news” in the accepted sense of the word.

Barely a week into the general election and Telford has already seen its second political heavyweight roll into town.

Short term parking could be reintroduced to Oswestry’s Bailey Head in a bid to regenerate the town centre.

Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague targeted some real “floating voters” when he visited the picturesque Pontcysyllte Aqueduct as the Welsh Conservative election roadshow hit the Shropshire/Welsh border.

The thing about going out on the doorstep is this: you never know who you’ll meet.

A major supplier of potatoes in the UK today announced that jobs could be lost at its north Shropshire site.

A man needing daily dialysis treatment, who went missing last week, has been found after he was recognised following an appeal in the Shropshire Star.

The mayor of Much Wenlock has called on residents to boycott one of the UK’s biggest banks in protest at a decision to close its branch in the town.

Plaid Cymru pledged to protect society’s most vulnerable people and protect front-line services from cuts in public spending when it unveiled its manifesto today.

Big name rock and pop stars including Eels, Tinie Tempah, Feeder and The Magic Numbers have been added to the bill for this year’s V Festival.

New hustings meetings have been organised across the county to give voters the chance to see their election hopefuls in action.

A section of a major link road in Shrewsbury will have its limit set at 50mph as part of a scheme to reduce vehicle speeds across the town.

Public consultation began today on controversial plans to build Shrewsbury’s controversial £102 million North West Relief Road.

A new report has revealed more than 160 people are on waiting lists for allotments with some facing a two to three-year wait in Shrewsbury.

A Shropshire fire chief will talk about his personal experiences in the aftermath of the Shrewsbury blast next week.

Letter: Reading your article on the “Australian style al-fresco dining centre” for Shrewsbury made me chuckle – then I suddenly realised it wasn’t an April Fool.

Letter: I do not usually think it appropriate to respond to letters in the Shropshire Star but feel sufficiently moved by the musings of P Johnson (a frequent correspondent on fire and rescue service issues) in your letters page, to do so, especially as they appeared on a day all fire services were mourning the [...]

A Shropshire gambling addict blew almost £20,000 in a couple of hours in casinos in Amsterdam – after his bank wrongly put the cash into his account.

The smiles returned for Shrewsbury Town on the shortest journey of the season – and none were wider than the one worn by a 17-year-old striker.