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A major shake-up of hospital services in Shropshire is needed to keep services within Shropshire, a health boss said today. Follow the crucial meeting on the future of Shropshire hospital services here

Health chiefs have today revealed that children’s surgeons from cramped wards in Birmingham and Liverpool are keen to move parts of their workload to Shropshire hospitals, if a plan to move some services from Shrewsbury to Telford goes ahead. The news came during the first in a series of four crunch meetings taking place on [...]

Music fans will gather in a Bishop’s Castle pub next month for a tribute concert in honour of Small Faces and The Faces star Ronnie Lane, to mark what would have been his 65th birthday.

Women’s Editor Tracey O’Sullivan reports on her trip to Uganda, where she saw how Shropshire charity cash is helping some of the world’s most needy families through unimaginable hardship.

Atmospheric Scottish rockers Glasvegas took to the stage at Wolverhampton’s Slade Rooms with a restyled electronic sound.

As the world mourns the loss of Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor, we remember her as the ultimate screen style icon.

Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls says the Budget will hurt families and fuel prices will rise with VAT.

Letter: The leader of Shropshire Council, Keith Barrow, tells us we only need hospitals for “accident and emergency and acute surgery” – is that the statement of somebody that is well informed? I don’t think so.

Letter: I read with real trepidation the report that was highlighted in both the Daily Telegraph and the Shropshire Star reporting the threat by the BBC to cut most of the output from the very good local radio stations and put it through some “super duper” Radio 5 Live.

Shrewsbury’s under-threat Wakeman School will be lit up for the second time in a week tomorrow night as county education chiefs arrive for an important meeting.

A soldier severely injured in battle in Afghanistan will tomorrow make an emotional return home to Shropshire for the first time in two and a half years.

Shropshire people from all walks of life consider how the Budget will affect  them.

With the end in sight we may now have to get used to gritty nights like this.

A south Shropshire man who allegedly hosted rowdy late night parties and invited teenagers to join in has been evicted from his home.

Licensing chiefs today backed plans to raise fares for black cab users in Telford.

Three Shropshire judokas have been included in a 14-strong British squad to compete at the Senior European Championships in Turkey next month.

Pupil and staff morale at two Shropshire primary schools has plummeted since controversial merger plans were announced, a meeting heard.

Children at a Mid Wales school became the first to try out a new fitness programme launched by a Welshpool mother and TV fitness guru Mr Motivator.

The equivalent of a quarter of the population of Whitchurch has signed a petition calling on supermarket giant Tesco to scrap plans for an out-of-town store amid fears such a move would harm the vitality of the town centre.

A new ambulance station could be built at Ludlow’s planned £27 million hospital as part of a bid to centralise healthcare services in the south of the county.

Traders in Ludlow are using social networking site Twitter to warn each other of thieves in the area, it has been revealed.

Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski today issued a last-ditch plea for county health chiefs to abandon plans for a shake-up of hospital services on the eve of four important meetings to decide their fate.

A massive consultation was set to get under way today on controversial plans to connect proposed new wind farms in Mid Wales with the National Grid in Shropshire.

As pump prices reached a record of more than 140p a litre for diesel, the Chancellor’s scrapping of a rise in duty met with mixed reaction from two Shropshire motoring campaigners.

Finance experts in Shropshire said the budget announcements provided opportunities that Shropshire’s small business community ‘should not overlook’.

Follow Chancellor George Osborne’s budget minute by minute with Shropshirestar.com.

A delegation of MPs from Shropshire and Mid Wales will hold crunch talks with rail giant Virgin tomorrow in a bid to secure a new direct rail link to London, it was revealed today.

Children’s author Frank Cottrell Boyce has announced he is writing a new series of books featuring the flying car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and fantasy could become reality with plans outlined for the world’s first 1,000mph car.

Watch all the highlights from Telford Tigers’ clash with Slough Jets in the English Premier League.

Andy Sinton has told AFC Telford United to gear up for “nine cup finals” as they enter the home straight in the race for the Blue Square Bet North title.