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A Shropshire family is taking legal action following the death of a father-of-two who died just weeks after having surgery at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

Two Bridgnorth bus services are to be axed after Shropshire Council withdrew funding for them, it was revealed today.

A JURY HAS been sworn in for the trial of nine Telford men alleged to have been involved in the sexual exploitation of teenage girls and child prostitution.

A businesswoman has started work to install an ice skating rink in her £2.5 million leisure and entertainment complex in Oswestry, weeks after saying she would walk away from the project.

Neil Bentley and Carlie Swain are back with the best bits from this week’s Severn radio breakfast shows.

Shrewsbury Town’s promotion dream is over after a goalless draw in the play-off second leg at the Greenhous Meadow.

Fired up Shrewsbury Town have been urged to have the “courage” to produce a stunning turnaround in tonight’s now-or-never play-off showdown with Torquay.

Mick McCarthy today insisted Wolves will stay up on Survival Sunday – and vowed to take personal blame if they don’t.

Premier League giants West Bromwich Albion will travel to face AFC Telford United in a high-profile pre-season friendly this summer.

An off-duty nurse came to the rescue of a Shropshire woman who was stabbed in Church Stretton.

Post your advance questions for a live Q+A session on university tuition fees on Thursday 26th May.

Campaigners fighting to save Welshpool High School’s sixth form from closure were today handing out hundreds of car stickers to drum up support.

More than 60 firefighters were battling a fire at a heating showroom in Shrewsbury this afternoon.

It’s Christian Aid Week, and thousands of the charity’s collection envelopes are being pushed through letterboxes all over Shropshire. Andrew Owen went to Nicaragua to see how the money is being spent.

A pensioner who was killed in a fire at an isolated cottage near Bridgnorth died as a result of smoke inhalation, a post mortem has revealed.

A man stabbed a woman in the middle of a Shropshire town in front of horrified shoppers in broad daylight.

Robbers fled with a significant amount of cash from a security guard outside a bank in Mid Wales.

A man in his 20s was left with a crushed hand after becoming trapped in farm equipment near Whitchurch. His right hand got stuck in a silage wagon yesterday morning.

A group set up to tackle Oswestry’s under-age drinking problem was launched today.

Shrewsbury Town fans were hoping the club can mark its 125th anniversary in style by progressing to the League One play-off final tonight.

Blog: My family was very sad to hear of the death of Shrewsbury’s ex-mayor Eileen Sandford.

In this week’s edition of The Ticket, Carl Jones takes a look at Pirates of the Caribbean 4 – On Stranger Tides. Is it a swashbuckling romp, or is it as bad as Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3? Find out here

The finalists in this year’s Just The Job competition have been named. But who do you think should be the winner?

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

Letter: I read Jim Mullocks’s comments in the Shropshire Star about the Tesco development on Edgeley Park and how Whitchurch Rugby Club relies on Tesco’s planning application to be accepted in order for their redevelopment to go ahead.

In our property feature this week, we look at moving to Bridgnorth, a market town on the banks of the River Severn with a rich history.

Still manic, still preaching. And if this is their “one last shot at mass communication” the message came across loud and clear – and the masses were there to hear it.

Lamps on street corners are set to be excluded from a pioneering project to turn off lights in a south Shropshire town during the early hours of the morning.

A fresh row broke out today between rival supermarkets bidding to build new stores in Whitchurch over which development should be considered first by planning bosses.

Police today revealed no action would be taken against two men arrested after officers in Shrewsbury recovered hundreds of items of clothing believed to have been stolen from charity recycling bins.