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Wolves have fresh injury concerns over three of their new signings for tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League match at Everton.

Motorists faced rush-hour misery this morning as thousands of vehicles jammed the M54 and nearby roads as revellers made their way to V Festival.

Neil Ward picks his top five books for motoring fans, the ideal present for anyone with an interest in cars.

Tiny piglets, calves and a horse had to be rescued after flames ripped through a barn in Shropshire, causing an estimated £500,000 damage.

A Shropshire town council has been ordered to pay out almost £19,000 after losing a tribunal brought by its former clerk for constructive unfair dismissal.

Singer Nick Cave recorded the first single for his eagerly-awaited new album in a Shropshire studio – with Robert Fripp on guitar.

An elderly Oswestry woman was rescued from her burning home after quick-thinking neighbours called 999 after hearing her smoke alarm going off.

A Shropshire man has died following a smash between a motorcycle and tractor on a country road.

Thousands of music fans were flocking into Shropshire today to set up their camps for the annual V Festival.

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

This week, we’ve found a couple of the plushest apartment-living that Shropshire has to offer, with a restored courtyard wing of the magnificent Apley Hall and a two-storey apartment in a converted country house.

Carl Jones reviews Messrs Stallone, Willis, Rourke, Lundgren and Statham in The Expendables, and also Angelina Jolie in Salt.

Comedian and TV star Alexander Armstrong will be seen unearthing a tale of intrigue and murder involving his Shropshire ancestors in a hit BBC genealogy show next week.

A substation the size of 13 football pitches could be built in Powys to help cope with the number of future windfarms expected across the county in the next few years, it has emerged.

One of Welshpool’s biggest employers is axing more than 10 per cent of its workforce because of a downturn in orders, it has emerged.

North Shropshire residents are being urged to have their say on controversial plans to introduce parking charges in their towns.

TV star Martin Shaw is determined to take the stage tonight after he collapsed during a matinee performance at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn and had to be rushed to hospital, his agent said.

Road improvements in a village near Oswestry could save children’s lives, the area’s Shropshire Councillor said today.

A 20-year-old Shropshire man has been sentenced to 12 months in a young offenders’ institute for assaulting two people with a tree branch outside an Ironbridge pub.

Inevitably, the cameras have been following Nick Clegg around this week as he minds the shop while David Cameron is on holiday, writes John Hipwood.

Letter: An open letter to the organisers of The Shrewsbury Flower Show:

It’s going right down to the wire – that’s the message from Shropshire Premier Bowling League supremo Mark Burroughs on the relegation dogfight.

Trainer Donald McCain has taken responsibility for the lacklustre showing of Shropshire-owned Overturn in the ToteSport Ebor at York, writes JAMES GARRISON.

At least £10,000 worth of fake computer games, DVDs and CDs were discovered by police following a dawn raid on a Telford home.

Shropshire officials believe re-naming Oswestry’s new £170,000 town green after the town’s most famous son could attract international appeal.

A long-serving former Shropshire clerk today won his case for constructive unfair dismissal at a tribunal against his former town council employers.

A Telford man who was part of a balaclava-clad gang which tried to smash their way into a petrol station using sledgehammers has been jailed for four years.

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has confirmed that goalkeeper Joe Hart will retain his place between the posts tonight in Romania.

Former favourite Ben Herd returns to Shrewsbury Town on Saturday, insisting he will have to be at his best to becalm his old club’s new wing wizards.

Sixth-formers in Shropshire were celebrating today after another record-breaking year for A-level results across the county.