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Wolves boss Mick McCarthy today dismissed suggestions that the club’s £40m plans to redevelop Molineux are heaping pressure on him and the players.

Shropshire’s Ted Hankey has stormed through to the knockout stages of the Grand Slam of Darts – after a stunning triumph over Phil Taylor in the battle of the world champions.

Anti-bullying week has been launched by Beatbullying’s virtual march on Downing Street featuring celebrity avatars.

Fans of the film of A Christmas Carol, which was filmed on location in Shrewsbury 26 years ago, are being invited to join one of two guided walks next month.

A young Shropshire man has received an award for his brave actions during a fatal incident where a cave roof collapsed on a group of youths in Bridgnorth.

Telly Talk: The rumble in the jungle that is the Havers versus Opik is simmering away nicely even if Lembit seems totally unaware he is pushing the normally smooth-talking actor to boiling point.

Ludlow Castle Motor Club has had a very good 2010 season, with members excelling in various championships.

Ellie Goulding, the region’s biggest musical success story of recent times, returned to home turf to wow a sell-out crowd of more than 3,000 people with a dazzling show.

Young drummers and percussionists are being invited to a workshop at the William Brookes School in Much Wenlock.

A Facebook campaign started by a Shropshire bus driver to get a two-minute silence on Christmas Day for fallen troops and the serving forces now has more than 350,000 members.

Letter: The decision to allow Tesco to continue selling non-grocery items in its store was recently described as “shambolic” by protesters, as reported in the Star and other press.

Business and civic leaders in Whitchurch today spoke of their mixed feelings towards proposals put forward by two supermarket giants to create new stores in the town.

A bus service which drops off and picks up children from outside a Telford school is being withdrawn because it is not “commercially viable”, it was revealed today.

If all goes to plan this season, Shrewsbury Town will accumulate enough points to claim one of the automatic promotion slots they regained on Saturday.

AFC Telford United striker Andy Brown is back in training – but is unlikely to be considered for tomorrow’s home clash with Workington, writes CHRIS HUDSON.

Thousands of people enjoyed Shropshire’s biggest bonfire party as they turned out to watch the sky lit up by colourful fireworks.

The Shropshire soldier killed in Afghanistan on Remembrance Sunday was today described as the “epitome of the Irish Infantry soldier”.

Shropshire’s Ted Hankey is back on the oche for a much anticipated clash of the world champions with Phil Taylor at the Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton tonight.

A SHROPSHIRE SOLDIER has been killed in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan.

Midfield general Sean McAllister has urged Shrewsbury Town to capitalise on their return to the automatic promotion spots by maintaining their unblemished record at the Greenhous Meadow.

Wolves were reeling today as they faced the prospect of being left with just one senior fully-fit centre-back for Saturday’s trip to Blackpool.

Proposals to refurbish and convert a dilapidated listed church hall in Telford into a three-bedroom home are in the pipeline.

More than 100 jobs could be created by the centrepiece of a near-3,500 home development in Shropshire.

A motorist who died in a road collision with an ambulance near Shrewsbury was today named as Keith Stonebanks.

Telly Talk: Poor Lembit – if ever someone was crying out to be butt of everyone’s joke it’s the former Montgomeryshire MP. That’s when he is not irritating the hell out of them.

Sharon Walters takes the Mitsubishi Outlander out for a drive, a car that offers good security against the troubling winter weather.

ANTI-COAL protesters who have been living in a ramshackle camp at a mining site near Telford for more than six months were today told by residents to “go home”.

I put on four stone when I was expecting my first child, writes Amy Bould. So I, more than most, might be qualified to talk about research today which reveals six out of 10 new mothers feel under pressure to lose their pregnancy weight quickly

A multi-million pound site in Shrewsbury earmarked for more than 100 homes has been put for sale on the open market after lying vacant for nearly four years.

Work today started on a new £3.9 million primary school in a south Shropshire village. The scheme has divided public opinion across the community.