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While Corin, Ife and Mario all claim to be ‘positive’ people, but they mean quite different things, writes Freddie Fisher.

Plans to reopen Wem’s swimming pool are yet to be finalised  – more than two months after it was forced to close after its operator was declared insolvent.

More than 100 jobs will go every year for the next four years at one of Powys’s biggest employers – the County Council, which plans to make cuts to its 5,000-strong full-time workforce.

Delighted Shrewsbury Town striker Kris Bright has made an ahead-of-schedule return to full training.

Quatt’s hopes of reaching a Lord’s final are alive and kicking after they confirmed Sunday’s big nPower Village Cup clash will go ahead.

Mick McCarthy today closed the book on the summer’s rumblings of a Kevin Doyle exit – claiming a rival club would have to offer the “earth, moon and the stars” for Wolves to sell.

Full-backs Sean Newton and Ashley Wooliscroft are on track to return to the AFC Telford United fold for tomorrow’s pre-season clash with Prescot Cables.

Work on a £1.4 million improvement scheme to make a road in Shrewsbury safer which has already had a “catastrophic” effect on business will be delayed by a further two weeks, transport bosses said today.

Shropshire residents could soon have a greater say over the location and number of the county’s lap dancing and strip clubs. Shropshire Council will next week be asked to adopt new regulations.

Could steam trains be heading to Ironbridge? That’s the hope of Telford & Wrekin Councillor Eric Carter. Find out more here.

People across Shropshire will be asked what cuts should be made as part of a council drive to achieve nearly £60 million budget savings over the next three years.

Plans for a £70 million extension of the M6 Toll Road to link with Shropshire’s M54 have been put on hold, a Government minister has revealed.

A youtube user captured this footage of a UFO over his house in Shropshire – take a look and see you think it could be extra-terrestrial…

A 79-year-old woman was knocked to the ground and had her shopping bag stolen in broad daylight during a mugging in Whitchurch, police said today.

Blog: Back in the 1990s I did an interview with a local woman, a church deacon, and we used a full page colour photograph of her in front of a stained glass window. Things had just changed dramatically for her, for a wider group of her colleagues and for the Anglican Church.

The High Court today ruled that Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, must spend the rest of his life in custody.

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

This week, we’re looking at some of the most interesting converted properties in Shropshire. Among them, we’ve got a former hospital, an old Methodist church and the Pièce de résistance, a converted water tower.

Robbie Williams is back together with Take That and now it’s speculated they could earn a massive £75 million!

Crews clearing the site of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks in New York City found a ship believed to date back to the 1700s.

Letter: It has been estimated that the livelihoods of approximately 30,000 people in Shropshire and Staffordshire depend on the continued operation of the Defence Training Centre at RAF Cosford.

One of Shropshire’s biggest festivals is on course for another sell-out.

A kestrel found with a leg injury that led to its death was illegally shot, according to a Shropshire falconer.

Analysts predict a further rise in BP’s shares if the capped-well holds.

Train operators serving Shropshire and the West Midlands had more services arrive on time last month than in the same period last year, new figures released by Network Rail have shown.

A Mid Wales driver who left his two friends with life-changing injuries after a high speed car crash has been jailed for 16 months.

Police could be called in to deal with a long-running row over attempts to ruin cycle races through a Shropshire village.

Shropshire golfer Will Jones will have two Open champions – with seven titles between them – for company at St Andrews tomorrow.

CRIME ACROSS West Mercia has fallen by eight per cent in the last year – quashing fears of a recession crimewave.

Service personnel at Shropshire’s RAF Cosford are facing a battle – to get their uniforms washed.