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Shrewsbury Town’s flying form could lead to a bumper crowd for tomorrow’s League Two clash with Stevanage.

Disturbing photographs of the remains of Osbaston House, the Shropshire home where failed businessman Christopher Foster murdered his wife and daughter are appearing on the internet.

AFC Telford United boss Andy Sinton has backed his charges to triumph in the ‘play-off mini-league’ ahead of tomorrow’s trip to high-flying Boston United.

A leading Shropshire councillor today warned of the “devastating impact” on people’s lives from plans to save more than £30 million by scrapping projects across the county.

A coroner has criticised a kayaking trip off the Anglesey coast which ended with the death of a 53-year-old Shropshire woman.

Hundreds of mourners lined the streets of Wootton Bassett as a Shropshire-based soldier who was accidentally killed in Afghanistan by a comrade made his final emotional journey.

Bullish Mick McCarthy today set his confident Wolves players a survival-busting target of five wins to beat the drop.

Parents and pupils at Shropshire’s only under-threat secondary school have been told to “bombard” council chiefs in a bid to keep it open.

North Midlands Rugby Football Union has pledged to do all it can to help a Shropshire village club which lost almost £4,000 worth of kit and equipment in a suspected arson attack.

David Cameron was on a collision course with the European Court of Human Rights today after MPs overwhelmingly rejected controversial plans to give prisoners the vote. Not a single Shropshire MP voted for giving inmates the vote.

A major table tennis tournament has been postponed – after staff at Shrewsbury’s £10 million sports village double-booked the venue.

A 15-year-old girl was knocked down by a car in a hit-and-run on a zebra crossing in Oswestry.

Opera star Russell Watson will feature at this year’s International Eisteddfod in Llangollen.

A cafe in Newtown could end up being forced out of business because of the recent closure of the town’s call centre, it has been claimed.

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

Chatty Man comedy star Alan Carr will be in Ludlow next month as part of a warm-up for his first tour in more than four years.

On the day of murdered Joanna Yeates’ funeral, her university tutor David Booth has paid tribute to her saying she was a ‘model student’.

New York Fashion Week kicks off with red hot stars in scarlet, designer gowns.

In the latest installment of our ‘moving to’ series, we look at living in Bishop’s Castle, a small but thriving Shropshire market town just over a mile away from the English-Welsh border.

Not for nothing has the Duke of Edinburgh just been named Oldie of the Year, writes Shirley Tart.

Plans for an all-through school at Rhyn Park, in the village of St Martins, near Oswestry, will help to safeguard primary schools in neighbouring villages, it has been claimed.

England’s winning run at Shrewsbury Town’s Greenhous Meadow came to an end last night after the nation’s under 20s squad suffered a 2-1 reverse to their French counterparts.

Shirehall chiefs today said they will continue to plough millions of pounds into projects in the county – despite unveiling a massive list of schemes which could be axed.

Market Drayton Town’s assistant manager Delwyn Humphries, and central defender Paul McMullen, received marching orders from referee Dragan Kuzmanovic as he and an assistant, Richard Gould, came under fire in a verbal punch up, writes Terry Morris.

A Shropshire paramedic drove slowly without his blue lights flashing while answering an emergency 999 call for a patient suffering with chest pains, a hearing heard.

Shropshire’s big Cheltenham Festival hope Peddlers Cross is on course to take the high road to Scotland for his final prep ahead of the biggest race of his life, writes JAMES GARRISON.

The jury in the trial of a Telford father accused of strangling his 24-year-old daughter has been sent home for the night.

A Shropshire mother who has seen generations of her family taught at Maesbury Primary School said today she was “gutted” over the threat of closure, vowing to fight tooth and nail to keep it open.

The body of a Shropshire-based soldier killed in Afghanistan after being accidentally shot by a comrade was due to be flown back to Britain today.

A giant television screen will be placed in the grounds of one of Mid Wales’s most popular attractions as part of celebrations to mark the royal wedding.