shropshirestar.com

Two new “super community recycling centres” look set to be built around Telford in a bid to cut costs by slashing the amount of waste going to landfill.

Organisers behind a traditional Shropshire agricultural show dating back more than 100 years have not given up hope of resurrecting the event.

Bosses behind a development which could create up to 100 jobs in the heart of Shrewsbury have now applied to increase the hours that a supermarket being built at the site can open.

Residents are set to be given the chance to shape the future of Welshpool at a number of consultation events set to be hosted by Welshpool Town Council from next month.

Nearly 100 people have written to council chiefs objecting to controversial plans to double the size of an abattoir in north Shropshire.

Jazz musician Kenny Ball had to cut short a performance at a Shrewsbury hotel after he was struck down by illness.

So the party is over, writes Tracey O’Sullivan.  Well, it certainly was in our house as I cheerfully tried to lift the mood with a rousing “Germanee, Germanee, Germanee” to the strains of the Engerland chant in the dying minutes of the game.

Here are the answers to our picture quiz in the England v Germany supplement published in the Shropshire Star on Saturday, June 26.

Shrewsbury residents have been putting forward their hopes for the future of the town, including a winter ice rink in the Square and a drive-in cinema at the West Mid Showground.

Property blogger, Lea Beven of Limecastle, on a week that saw her tyres let down by a prankster and ending up in hospital after freshening a house up for a viewing:

Letter: I have watched with dismay our beautiful thriving Shrewsbury slowly slip into a town of charity shops, coffee shops and very little else.

Letter: I see from the Star front page headline (June 18), that one very positive side effect of the Government’s cutback in funding to local authorities is that Shropshire Council is being forced to withdraw its free swimming “perk” for children and pensioners.

House prices edged ahead by just 0.1 per cent during June as demand from buyers stalled, research indicated today.

Our video team caught up with BBC Countryfile presenter John Craven at the Shropshire County Show as he took a break from filming.

England fans in Bloemfontein have been giving their reaction to the nation’s exit from the World Cup after a 4-1 defeat to Germany.

Underneath Moose Jaw lies a different history to the one you might imagine as you walk down its bustling and friendly Main Street, writes Rebecca Lawrence from Canada.

We was robbed, weeps Ben Bentley. Well, okay, we left the shop door open, the safe ajar and a note on the counter saying: “Please can you lock up when you leave and pop the keys under the pot plant”, BUT we was robbed. . .

Richard Ward, Simon Davis and Mark Harris, three friends from the Shropshire village of Berrington, near Shrewsbury, are cycling from London to Paris to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation.

England are out of the World Cup following a 4-1 defeat to Germany in the second round.

England’s World Cup dream is over.

Thirteen schools from across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin have registered an “interest” in becoming academies, it emerged today.

After years of living happily out of the limelight, Rick Astley is back – and has his sights set on an eager Shropshire audience, writes Andrew Owen.

Graham Turner is hoping to empty the Shrewsbury Town treatment room by improving medical records for 2010-11.

Oliver Farr is in contention for the biggest success of his golfing career – over a course where Tiger Woods won one of his three Open championships.

Shropshire supermarkets were today gearing up for a stampede from football fans who are expected to clear the shelves of beer and barbecues ahead of England’s vital World Cup clash with Germany.

Thousands of people were today expected to pack into the first ever Shropshire County Show, as warm weather and glorious sunshine helped the showcase of rural life to kick off in style.

Streetlights are blazing out on a Telford road in the middle of the day because of a technical fault, borough council bosses admitted today.

A motorcyclist was airlifted to hospital with chest and arm injuries following a crash on the M54.

A Mid Wales politician was taken to hospital just hours before he was due to open Prime Minister’s Questions.

Soap star and Dancing on Ice finalist Roxanne Pallett will head up the cast for a show at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn this year, the venue revealed today.