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A “DOMINEERING” Shropshire father, who had a “nasty temper”, murdered his daughter in an argument over a TV being too loud, a court heard today.

Controversial proposals for parking charges for Wem could hit rural people harder than those in the town centre, it was claimed today.

Detectives were today following up potential new leads in the Janine Downes murder investigation – after a fresh appeal for information led to “five or six” phone calls coming in.

Members of one of Shropshire’s oldest bowls clubs have hit out at Shropshire Council – after being charged business rates for the first time history.

The body of a Shropshire man may have to be exhumed from a village churchyard so that he can be buried with his wife.

Company bosses applying to extend the life of a Shropshire landfill site say 70 jobs would be put at risk if they were forced to close the site.

A farmer cut through a water pipe in a village near the Shropshire border sending water shooting 100ft into the air and turning nearby roads into muddy rivers – leaving 800 properties without supplies.

RESIDENTS ARE being forced to take their lives in their hands with traffic travelling at speeds of between 80mph and 120mph on a “lethal” south Shropshire road, it has been claimed.

Revitalised Shrewsbury Town striker Nathan Elder was today taking a major step towards ending his nine-month injury hell – by returning to full training.

Boss Andy Sinton has blasted the decision to postpone AFC Telford United’s next league game due to international call-ups, insisting: “It’s not a level playing field.”

Devastated defender Ronald Zubar today said sorry to Wolves fans after apologising to his team-mates for his awful gaffe that led to last night’s 1-0 defeat at Bolton.

It began with the high of a goal – but the debut of Shrewsbury Town striker Jake Robinson for Torquay could be turning sour over an administrative error.

Shropshire’s big Cheltenham Festival hope Peddlers Cross has suffered a setback which has ruled him out of his intended final preparation race.

One of the biggest employers in Llandrindod Wells has gone into administration, putting dozens of jobs at risk, administrators said today.

Parents of pupils at a Mid Wales school, whose headteacher has been suspended, have spoken out in support of her, describing her as a very fine individual and strong leader.

A campaigner who launched a petition to save Shropshire’s direct rail-link to London today said he would ask the county’s MPs to present it in Parliament – as the number of people signing it topped 6,000.

Motorists in Shropshire faced hours of delays when recovery efforts over a crashed lorry ran into complications, ending with the M54 being closed and motorway and roads gridlocked.

The Red Arrows will again headline this year’s Cosford Air Show, organisers confirmed today.

The ambulance service which covers Shropshire has spent more than £360,000 on buying four “alternative response vehicles” – or to put it more bluntly, special ambulances which can cope with the increasing number of fat patients.

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of burglary at the Cambrian Railway Society premises in Oswald Road, Oswestry.

SHIREHALL CHIEFS have spent £11 million put aside for Shrewsbury’s ageing swimming pool on other projects because of cash pressures, it was claimed today.

Shropshire and Mid Wales MPs claimed a total of £23,343 in expenses during September and October 2010, new figures revealed today.

Soaring fuel prices are leaving volunteer drivers helping those in need in remote parts of Shropshire out of pocket, it has been claimed.

Telly Talk: Channel Four’s new youth advice show, a mixture of Embarrassing Bodies and The Sex Education Show called The Joy of Teen Sex, is described by the channel as ‘a bold, informative look at the love lives and sex lives of teenagers that tells it like it really is’. Well you can say that [...]

Prime Minister David Cameron has promised that Shropshire people will be listened to before any changes are made to the county’s NHS services. He was answering a question from Shrewsbury and Atcham MP Daniel Kawczynski at Prime Minister’s Question Time yesterday.

Letter: What is Sidney Evans’s point when he talks of the terminal decline of rock music (January 24)?

Mention the Telford Sunday League and the name of Ken Ford was never far from the conversation.

Two decades have passed since young mother Janine Downes was murdered. Her father John has revealed her last letter to him. The Shropshire Star’s Crime Correspondent KIRSTY SMALLMAN reports.

More than 70 residents have demanded that traffic changes in Dawley high street be reversed – after only three months in operation.

Detectives investigating burglaries in south Shropshire today appealed for sightings of four men who were dropped off in Cleobury Mortimer after being given a lift by a farmer.