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More than 13,000 people in Shropshire have spent at least five years on benefits, it was revealed today.

Blog: Well readers, I’m pleased to be able to announce to those who have stuck with me through the thick and thin of my many medical disasters over the last two years, I’m finally home from hospital and this time . . . I think we’ve cracked it.

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

Shropshire racer Ben Wylie has proved himself one of the best riders in this year’s Isle of Man TT series.

The country’s top judge today refused to cut the 20-year minimum jail term of a Shropshire factory worker who stabbed and killed a friend in a “moment of madness”.

Shropshire triple murder suspect Robin Ligus used to fish in a remote area where one of his alleged victims was found in a burnt-out car, a court heard today.

An appearance at the 2012 US Masters and next month’s Open Championship was today just five tantalising rounds away for Shropshire golfing aces Oliver Farr and Ashley Chesters.

Former British Number One Greg Rusedski opened the Telford Tennis Centre yesterday – and the one question on people’s minds was: can it produce a champion?

More than 50 jobs will be created after a Shropshire department store announced plans to expand.

Over 50,000 people are expected to descend on Cholmondeley Castle next month as the famous grounds play home to the annual Pageant of Power.

Thousands of people will head to Cholmondeley next month for the annual Pageant of Power show, which sees iconic racing cars, supercars and bikes on show in the castle grounds.

Council chiefs will tell National Grid bosses that building huge pylons through Shropshire to connect windfarms in Mid Wales to the national electricity network would be “totally unacceptable”.

Shropshire’s Adrian Gunnell will continue on the professional snooker tour in 2011-12 – for his father.

A business leader has hit out at plans for a £75,000 revamp of Church Stretton town centre and has called for streets to be left as they are.

Home furnishings and fashion giant Laura Ashley is planning to expand its presence in Newtown by moving to a bigger site, it has been revealed.

Students at a secondary school near Oswestry have been banned from using mobile phones by the new acting head. Pupils at Rhyn Park School can still take their phones on to the premises.

For as many years as I can remember the vast majority of readers in our wonderful farming magazine The Farmer have had great delight in taking the Mickey and being anything but flattering about the way in which we brown rice and sandal boys produce food.

It was beginner’s luck for Bridgnorth businessman Paul Sandy, who was left stunned after his horse Veiled romped to victory at Royal Ascot and became the first from the county to win at the prestigious meeting.

Shropshire’s band of “hardcore” motorists who park illegally have been warned that they risk having their vehicles clamped and towed away under a new council crackdown.

The most iconic, historic and contemporary supercars visited Cholmondeley Castle ahead of the 2011 Pageant of Power in July.

Shrewsbury Town were today handed a glamour Carling Cup first round trip to Championship big guns Derby County.

Eager AFC Telford United fans have already snapped up more than 350 season tickets as the club looks forward to its first season in the Conference Premier.

Too many schools in Powys have budget deficits and the council’s record in securing improvement in schools has been disappointing, according to an inspection report.

Chester Road stayed on course for a big Shropshire bowls double – and have ended the hopes of arch-rivals Castlefields achieving the same.

Children in a village on the Shropshire border took part in a mass walk to school to celebrate the opening of a new bypass which has made the area safer

A 12 year-old girl from Powys has written a ­letter to Welsh Assembly First Minister Carwyn Jones in a bid to prevent hundreds of pylons being built across Shropshire and Mid Wales

Thieves smashed their way into a Telford school and stole mountain bikes worth more than £4,000 from special needs students

Five men have been arrested after a seven-man brawl in broad daylight in a south Shropshire park, police revealed today

Union chiefs said they were today arranging meetings with Shropshire Council workers “as a matter of urgency” to discuss action after councillors backed a 5.4 per cent pay cut for staff.

SHROPSHIRE IS set to miss out on establishing an Enterprise Zone which would support local businesses, scuppering hopes of creating about 12,000 jobs in the county.