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There will be a familiar name on the Shropshire Star Snooker Knockout Trophy in 2010.

Romance is dead and the lead characters of Shawn Levy's hysterical action comedy may be too before the end credits roll.

Gurinder Chadha, director of Bend It Like Beckham and Bride And Prejudice, shares her affection for Frank Capra and the Ealing comedies of the 1940s and 1950s in this shattershot, feelgood romantic comedy.

Sex sells, purity rings sell - especially with the endorsement of clean-living dreamboats such as the Jonas Brothers.

British writer-director Neil Marshall appears to have peaked with his riotous 2002 debut, Dog Soldiers, a low-budget horror comedy about a squad of British Army officers under attack from man-sized wolves.

If you follow the example of the unfortunate lead character in Mike Judge's workplace comedy, and extract then bottle the film's essential ingredients, you would be left with a bland syrup of relationship drama, romance and farce.

More than two thousand passengers have arrived in Southampton after being rescued by a brand new cruise liner.

Club captain Stuart Whitehead today revealed his shock at the departure of AFC Telford United’s management duo Rob Smith and Larry Chambers – and ruled himself out as a long-term successor.

A couple could be forced to bulldoze their dream home in Shropshire’s World Heritage site after losing a planning appeal.

AFC Telford United boss Rob Smith has been sacked after four years in charge of the non-League football club, it emerged today.

No Flash, AMFX and Decadence In Berlin are among the local bands featured in this week’s Sound of Shropshire podcast.

Great Britain international Tom Watkins has been named as the new coach of Telford Tigers in their first season under fans ownership, writes CAROLINE GARBETT.

Shrewsbury Town have been urged to thrive on the pressures of win-or-bust football as they prepare for their final roll of the play-off dice.

A Shropshire chef will find out tonight whether his bid to cook for Prince Charles is one step closer.

Market traders today called for traffic to be banned from Bridgnorth’s High Street – one week after 14 people were injured after a car ploughed into stalls.

Arts bosses in Shrewsbury have called for a new concert hall to be built in the town so it can become a regional hub for live music events.

Traders at a north Shropshire market today spoke of their disappointment that it is to be axed after just six weeks after it became a victim of its own success.

Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures for the week ending Saturday, April 24, 2010.

Transporting massive wind farm equipment to villages near Oswestry will bring chaos to the area with roads closed, motorists caught up in convoys and police escorts needed, residents have been told.

Blog: Investigating reports of missing people has changed significantly over the years, writes Chief Inspector Jason Wells from Telford Police. We’ve moved on from Gene Hunt’s day.

Hear the memories of Cyril Cope, a torpedoman on the destroyer HMS Hardy in the First Battle of Narvik, which took place 70 years ago.

Blog: Exactly seven days after the first flights were cancelled it is now a tale of two very different stranded Brits here in Spain – those who hit the road to get home and those who opted to sit it out, writes Tracey O’Sullivan.

The Breaking News headline screaming from our screens told us the dramatic truth: “The second televised prime ministerial debate has taken place”.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg’s rising popularity showed signs of waning today as the polls signalled a David Cameron fightback.

Multi-million pound plans to rebuild schools in Telford will be thrown on the scrapheap if the Tories wrestle power at the general election, a Labour minister warned during a visit to the town.

Wrekin Tory candidate Mark Pritchard says he hopes the £1.59 billion takeover of bus and rail firm Arriva by German operator Deutsche Bahn will bring an end to overcrowding on a service running through Shropshire.

Ludlow Liberal Democrats and Lib Dem candidate Heather Kidd were hosting a visit by Edward McMillan Scott MEP – formerly Conservative, now Liberal Democrat – to the Ludlow constituency today.

North Shropshire’s main parliamentary candidates sat on the fence over Oswestry’s planned new supermarket when they took part in a radio hustings event last night.

Montgomery’s Liberal Democrat candidate, Lembit Opik, found himself being quizzed by children last night and admitted that it was as tough a grilling as on any Question Time panel.

A father of four who died after being restrained by door staff at a Shrewsbury nightclub posed a threat to the public, a member of staff has told a jury in a manslaughter trial.