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Skipper Ed Foster is urging his Shropshire side to learn their lesson after falling to a one-wicket defeat at Oxfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship.

AFC Telford United defender Adam Dugdale is hoping to win a promotion to the Football League ranks – after getting a trial at former club Crewe Alexandra.

I was well prepared to give the new coalition a go, admits Shirley Tart. We knew there would have to be compromise, but couldn’t that be for the good and a move away from extremism, right or left?

Wolves boss Mick McCarthy today dropped a big hint that Michael Kightly and Stephen Hunt are firmly in his plans for the new season when he revealed both will be in his Premier League squad of 25 named next month.

The V Festival, sponsored by Virgin Media, which draws thousands of people to Weston Park on the east Shropshire border, is celebrating its 15th anniversary this summer.

A Telford deputy headteacher today spoke of his delight after learning that his school will be rebuilt despite massive Government budget cuts.

One side has been in pre-season training more than a month, the other less than two weeks – and it sure showed in this Shropshire derby at Park Hall.

A scheme to build 59 homes in Telford costing almost £3 million will go ahead after all, it was announced today.

The newly-launched Shropshire Star Careers section is looking for a job-seeking blogger to take us through the next step of their career with a weekly feature:

Police are still investigating how a man was left in a “critical but stable” condition in hospital having apparently fallen from the bonnet of a moving car on a Shropshire road.

Shrewsbury’s Dana Prison is “ill-equipped” for its role as a training jail according to inspectors, it was revealed today. HMP Shrewsbury became a category C training prison in January.

Blog: About time – that will be the reaction of many people to Government moves to improve discipline in the classroom, writes Education Correspondent Dave Morris.

Letter: I went to a local pub recently with my wife and ordered two half pints of bitter shandy along with an unexciting and overpriced meal.

During the election campaign much was said about how our political system was broken and needed mending, writes Ludlow MP Philip Dunne.

Crowds of people lined the streets to watch a colourful parade of performers dancing and singing through the streets of Llangollen. The rain held off yesterday as thousands watched the annual Parade of the Nations.

Teachers were today told to get tough with unruly pupils by forcibly ejecting troublemakers from lessons to restore order in classrooms. New powers to restrain and punish naughty pupils were unveiled by the Government.

Paul the octopus oracle has been at it again, predicting the winner of the World Cup semi-final between Germany and Spain.

Letter: There are people who are in receipt of incapacity benefit, who claim to have severe mental illness when in reality they do not.

Fresh doubt has been cast over the future of RAF Cosford as a military base after the new coalition Government signalled it had no intention of switching plans to construct a defence super-centre at an air force base in South Wales to Shropshire instead.

Motorists face a summer of delays on Shropshire’s A5 with 10 weeks of roadworks beginning next week.

Pilot plans to remove pavement advertising in a Shropshire town may be discussed at a public meeting, after pressure from concerned businesses.

A £200 million programme to revamp every secondary school in Telford & Wrekin remains on track today despite The Government’s decision to massively scale back a building programme.

Detectives today released the first CCTV images of the getaway car used by a gunman after he threatened terrified staff at a Telford petrol station.

Rural areas like Shropshire risk being “forgotten” as the Government “dismantles” support agencies and slashes budgets, a leading rural campaigner claimed today.

Are you straight or gay? That was the question posed to a stunned Shropshire grandmother as she took part in a “bizarre” survey by a housing trust canvassing tenants and landlords for their opinions on cleaning and maintenance.

A 22-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by a group of men as she walked through a Shrewsbury park in the early hours, police said today.

Former Shrewsbury Town boss Paul Simpson has been linked with a sensational return to football — as coach of Libya, writes JAMESGARRISON.

An outdoor market will return to Welshpool this year, bringing a massive boost to its trade, it was claimed today.

Shropshire’s cricketers were today braced for a tense finish to their Minor Counties Championship game with Oxfordshire.

Wayne Hennessey today targeted winning his Wolves place back after signing his five-year deal.