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Wolves boss Mick McCarthy today backed his players to respond to the latest ‘tipping point’ in their season with Saturday’s game against Fulham.

The death toll from three days of severe weather across the Southern United States has risen to at least 43.

The sunny weather’s here – unless you’re reading this on a day when it isn’t sunny, in which case the sunny weather was here. It was nice, though, wasn’t it? Here are some readers’ pictures to remind you just how nice Shropshire can be when the sun shines.

Sharon Walters reviews the Nissan X-Trail, a 4×4 that is surprisingly frugal at the pumps.

Blog: As you will have read in newspapers both nationally and locally, pubs are closing faster than a binge-drinker downing a pint when he hears the words “last orders”.

Assistant editor Carl Jones, business editor Thom Kennedy and feature writer Ben Bentley look back over a week of pub sheds, ID thefts and census forms. What will the next seven days bring?

A Shropshire man has set himself a goal of running three races – totalling 209 miles – in just two months.

Shrewsbury Town kept alive their automatic promotion with a vital home victory over bottom club Stockport.

AFC Telford United had to settle for a point as they produced a mixed performance away at lowly Hinckley.

Homegrown Shrewsbury Town midfielder Steve Leslie is to stay at League Two rivals Hereford United until the end of the season.

More than 1,000 incidents of fly-tipping have been recorded in the Shropshire area in the past 12 months, latest figures reveal.

Forward-thinking AFC Telford United boss Andy Sinton has set his sights on improving his side’s goals-for column next season – whatever the outcome of their promotion bid.

Shropshire man Trumpet Major Tim West will play a key role in this month’s royal wedding service at Westminster Abbey as Prince William finally marries Kate Middleton.

Distraught Shropshire boxer Mark Lloyd was today coming to terms with a controversial defeat which ended his dreams of becoming European Union welterweight champion.

Newport maintained their impressive start to the Furrows Shropshire Premier Bowls League after putting St Georges to the sword last night.

The suspension of controversial new car parking charges in Whitchurch will last for no more than three months, a leading councillor said today.

Detectives today said they were satisfied with a nine-year jail term handed to a 26-year-old man for killing a Shrewsbury man found with multiple stab wounds at a town flat.

Mobile phone records cast doubt on whether a man accused of raping a woman in Shropshire woods could have been at the scene at the time of the attack, a court heard.

A south Shropshire pub which has been closed for about five months has been snapped up by new buyers.

A number of county community groups are celebrating after being handed donations by Denso Manufacturing UK through The Community Foundation for Shropshire & Telford.

Tiny holes which puzzled a Shropshire woman after she spotted them in her garden are the work of Tawny Mining bees, it was claimed today.

A Shropshire man accused of grabbing a woman from behind before dragging her through undergrowth and raping her was spoken to by police 24 hours after the offence, a court heard.

A worker at Shropshire-based wine merchants Tanners whose son was kidnapped and executed in Iraq is preparing to run the London Marathon this weekend in his memory.

More than half of residents in a south Shropshire town have joined an online neighbourhood watch group.

A Mid Wales butcher broke an old schoolfriend’s jaw in three places after punching him on a drunken night out, a court heard. Colin Vaughan Jones, 21, was drunk and “spoiling for a fight” Mold Crown Court was told.

A Shropshire woman whose car was destroyed in the Shrewsbury explosion today claimed she had been left hundreds of pounds out of pocket after insurers refused to pay out for her loss.

An ex-Royal Navy serviceman from Shropshire has become the latest county resident to show off his converted shed – and said his motivation in creating the mini-bar was to dodge soaring pub prices.

No charges have yet been brought following a high-profile raid to crackdown on the drug GHB in Shropshire.

Hundreds of items of clothing believed to have been stolen from charity recycling bins in the Shrewsbury area have been recovered. They were found by police in a van at the Asda supermarket car park in Old Potts Way.

Hero soldiers who have just returned to the county after seven months in Afghanistan were today a step closer to being granted the freedom of Market Drayton.