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Plans for a £100,000 development at a pub formerly owned by, reputedly, the UK’s oldest landlady have been given the go ahead.

Girl band Bond helped launch the count-down to the 2010 Llangollen Eisteddfod by releasing thousands of balloons above the town’s international pavilion.

DJ Tom Campbell is back with his Sound of Shropshire – an in-depth look at the county’s music scene.

Shrewsbury Town  legend Graham Turner today made an emotional return as manager – 26 years after leaving the club.

A busy dual carriageway between two major traffic islands in Shrewsbury has been reopened following a lorry fire which saw it shut for more than nine hours.

We feel a bit like the Famous Five coming to the end of their journey in Enid Blyton’s books, writes motorhome holiday blogger Rhea Alton.

Remakes have become the scourge of a Hollywood system starved of creativity and imagination.

Self-doubt is hard-wired into the British psyche at birth.

As an exercise in controlled madness, Werner Herzog's remake of Abel Ferrara's celebrated 1992 film certainly has plenty of screws loose before the credits roll.

The weight of public expectation can be a heavy burden - it can cripple even the strongest men.

A couple of months ago, Matthew Vaughn's hyperviolent Kick-Ass somersaulted over the graves of Watchmen and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, proving that comic book-inspired action movies can be every bit as smart and sassy as the cult pictorials they are based on.

In JM Barrie's Peter Pan, the good fairy Tinkerbell drinks poisoned medicine and prepares to die.

Opening to the strains of Alicia Keys's song Empire State Of Mind (Part II) Broken Down, a valentine to the concrete jungle of New York City, Sex And The City 2 takes another bite out of the Big Apple with the expertly coiffed cast of the hit TV series.

Horror movies rely on the element of surprise to get beneath our skin and to leave us cowering in the dark of the cinema theatre.

Inspired by the best-selling video games series, Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time is a rollicking escapade which marries gorgeous Moroccan locations with state-of-the-art visual effects.

T-Rex was right, the British love to boogie, and not just on a Saturday night.

Argentina will beat Brazil, unless Spain beat them first. Or Germany could knock out Holland, but only if France are eliminated in the first round. And England? Well, second round at best. Download the banter and predictions of our World Cup team – then remind that what they said one month from now.

Graham Turner can bring the boom years to Shrewsbury Town for the second time. That’s the verdict of Carleton Leonard.

A 50-year-old man who has overcome personal heartache to help transform the lives of disabled people in the county has been crowned the 2010 Pride of Shropshire champion.  

Fans’ trumpets are leaving Shrewsbury-born goalkeeper Joe Hart brassed off ahead of this year’s World Cup in South Africa, his father said today.

A Shropshire store owner today claimed he had been “strong-armed” out of selling pate de foie gras after he was harassed at home following an online campaign.

A 22-year-old Shropshire man has admitted causing death by dangerous driving after a crash which killed his teenage passenger.

Football fans are looking forward to the kick-off of the 2010 World Cup – now the Shropshire Star wants your photos, videos and stories.

Shropshire goalkeeper Joe Hart will have the whole support of the county behind him if he starts for England in the World Cup tomorrow, his proud father Charlie said today.

More than 400 workers at Telford’s GKN Sankey plant in Hadley have been balloted on strike action in a dispute about pay.

More than 100 people turned out to oppose controversial plans to redevelop a major abattoir in rural north Shropshire.

A round-up of this week’s Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures.

People in Tenbury Wells can now have their say on plans for a supermarket which is expected to create 180 jobs.

Club captain Stuart Whitehead today revealed his delight at agreeing a new deal with AFC Telford United, declaring: “I’ve got a point to prove.”

Mick McCarthy has given the injury-stricken Michael Kightly a major boost as the Wolves star faces renewed pressure to get his career back on track.