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Letter: Shropshire County Council ran the county, including Telford, for many years. There is no reason why the county authority cannot run it now.

Shrewsbury’s MP has said he hopes controversial plans for a £60 million incinerator planned for the outskirts of Shrewsbury will be thrown out after similar proposals in Telford were scrapped.

Telford Steam Railway is aiming to expand with plans to run trains into Ironbridge from Horsehay.

A meeting is being arranged in Oswestry to allow residents to ask questions over plans to close courts in Shropshire.

Road rage has spilled onto the streets of Telford this week with vandals targetting a traffic camera at Bennetts Bank.

Leading Shropshire para-equestrian dressage rider Ricky Balshaw has been selected to represent Great Britain at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010 in September.

Two crimebusting CCTV cameras could be installed in Shrewsbury Quarry’s showpiece Dingle.

Residents and businesses had to be evacuated and roads were closed after a blaze broke out at a breakdown recovery garage in Shrewsbury. The action was taken after fears gas cylinders at the site could explode.

A haul of power tools and specialist carpentry items seized by police from a house in Ludlow may have been stolen from the Bridgnorth area.

A Shropshire cake shop will be celebrating its first anniversary by giving away 365 cakes to raise money for charity.

Shrewsbury Town striker Nathan Elder has revealed a pep talk from manager Graham Turner is helping him along the long rehabilitation road from serious injury.

Shropshire boxing sensation, Liam Davies, saw his hopes of becoming the county’s first European schoolboy champion dashed by the narrowest of margins.

Bridgnorth Town have confirmed former Wolves star Tony Dinning has joined the Midland Alliance club as player-coach, writes ALEX JAMES.

The New Saints midfielder Scott Ruscoe has moved second on the all-time list of Welsh Premier players who have appeared for their clubs in European competitions.

Shropshire golf legend Ian Woosnam is in contention for his first ever senior Major title.

A Lotto winner in Telford has just over two weeks to come forward and claim a £60,000 prize – or the lot will go to charity.

HEALTH BOSSES in Shropshire and Telford are looking to join forces and offload services to a new countywide NHS trust.

A 16-year-old boy detained for eight months after stabbing a man during a birthday party in south Shropshire has lost an appeal to have the sentence overturned.

Oswestry Town Council has reiterated its view that the Central Car Park is not available for developing as a supermarket and cinema.

A video has been posted on YouTube showing a man narrowly missing rocks as he jumped almost 60ft off cliffs into a pool at a Shropshire quarry.

Shropshire has lost out on funding worth almost £600,000, meaning 14 projects to transform play areas in the county have been put on hold.

A Shropshire soldier cheated death when a rogue Afghan soldier fired a rocket-propelled grenade into his tent, during an attack in Helmand Province, his family revealed today.

Letter: It is grand to see the “regeneration of Wellington”. Millions of pounds have been spent on swopping the bus station and car park round, digging up New Street and laying super-duper new paving, not to mention the civic centre being built. Would not be possible, with a bit of the change left over from [...]

Blog: GREY squirrels are tree rats. They steal eggs, kill fledglings and have driven Britain’s native red squirrel out of most of England. They are vicious, green-fanged pests and when Raymond Elliot caught one in a trap in his Staffordshire garden he did what generations of people have done with trapped rats. He drowned it.

Large cinemas in Shropshire are cashing in on their customers by charging up to 137 per cent more for food and drink than local shops.

Two teenage Shropshire lads are off to compete for the country tomorrow in their sailing class world – championships in France.

About £50,000 worth of drugs – believed to be cannabis – was seized during a police swoop in a part of Telford, detectives revealed today.

Bob Hickman test drives the new Ford Ka, but isn’t impressed with the paint-job his model came with.

A round-up of Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures for the week ending July 24, 2010.

Michael Kightly today handed Wolves a massive boost after revealing he will return to full training within two weeks and hopes to be fit for the start of the season.