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Actress Mia Farrow tells the trial of Charles Taylor that Naomi Campbell told her she’d received a “huge diamond” from the former Liberian leader.

A MAN AND a 12-year-old boy have been seriously injured after the quad bike they were riding on collided with a car on a Shropshire industrial estate.

Two men were arrested for public order offences following Shrewsbury Town FC’s opening day fixture against Bradford City, police said today.

Nanny McPhee star Emma Thompson has been honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

A string of businesses have expressed an interest in buying the former Woolworths store in Market Drayton, a councillor revealed today.

When Serena Stanworth was bullied out of school and even contemplated suicide after constant taunts of being “fat and ugly” she never dreamt she would be asked to work as a model.

Gardeners who use land next to a proposed site for a £5 million biomass burner in Bishops Castle have said today the plant would not be compatible with their allotments.

One of Shropshire’s best known and most respected journalists has died at the age of 88.

The fiance of the British doctor shot dead in Afghanistan has paid tribute to the woman he was soon to have married.

Petrol prices could soar by eight per cent by the beginning of next year, it was predicted today. And the cost of filling up could rise by three per cent by the August Bank Holiday weekend.

A man was treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out at his neighbour’s home in Albrighton.

Shrewsbury fans of a certain vintage had been awaiting this day for 26 long years.

Fuel and scrap metal worth hundreds of pounds have been stolen from a Mid Wales quarry, police said today.

Archaeologists were today set to start an excavation on farmland in Powys that could unveil the first Saxon building to be found in Wales.

An adventurous approach from Shrewsbury was rewarded as they returned to winning ways in the Birmingham League premier division.

Blog: An opening day win over the League Two favourites should have fans very excited about the new season, writes Shrewsbury Town blogger James Pugh.

More than 6,000 households in Shropshire will be worse off when changes to housing benefits are introduced, figures reveal.

The podcast team are looking ahead to Shrewsbury Flower Show, with Shropshire Magazine Editor Neil Thomas providing a run down on its line-up.

There was no dream tie with Aston Villa for The New Saints – instead, they will head to Bulgaria to face CSKA Sofia in the fourth qualifying play-off round of the Uefa Europa League.

Shropshire is “very, very lucky” it has not had its own Baby P case because of growing workload pressure on council staff and funding cuts, it was claimed today.

Shrewsbury Town striker Kris Bright faces a race against time to be fit for the Carling Cup first round tie with Charlton Athletic on Tuesday.

Two people have been injured, one seriously, in a crash on the A49 in south Shropshire today. A man in his 30s suffered serious injuries in the accident.

Shropshire dad David Wheat was left literally holding the baby after having to deliver his son in the car park of a county hospital.

The battle for survival in the Furrows Shropshire Premier Bowls League is hotting up with nine points separating the bottom four teams after last night’s action.

Revellers travelling to this year’s V Festival on the Shropshire-Staffordshire border have been warned not to rely on sat navs or internet route maps to get there as police prepare to close roads in a bid to beat jams and traffic chaos.

A warning has been sounded by fire chiefs following a spate of arson attacks in part of Telford. Residents living in Dawley are today being urged to remain “extra vigilant” after three incidents in three nights.

Work on an £8 million leisure centre in Oswestry which ground to a halt when a building firm went into liquidation will start again on Monday.

Protestors fighting plans to mine coal in the shadow of The Wrekin today defended their tactic of digging tunnels at the site.

Dinosaurs are well and truly alive in the Dinosaur Capital of the World just outside Calgary, writes Rebecca Lawrence from Canada.

Italian investigators are looking into a train derailment that left one passenger dead and around 30 injured near Naples.