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As children, the dark exerts a powerful hold over our nightmares.

Following his European jaunts around England and Spain, writer-director Woody Allen says bonjour to Paris for his new romantic comedy, his 41st movie.

When 16-year-old Taylor Lautner was cast as lovesick Jacob Black in the first Twilight film, media attention focused on Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and their sizzling chemistry.

John Madden directs a gripping English language remake of the Israeli film Ha-Hov about three retired Mossad agents, who come face to face with the spectres of the past.

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

“We find it difficult to play in Shrewsbury because a lot of pub venues tend to want cover bands, but we don’t do covers, we play our own material.” So says Mark Johnson, singer and guitarist with Judas Johnson.

The leader of Shropshire Council today said he could not bear to be without his ‘trunk of funk’ as he urged the public to vent their fury at planned cuts to the county’s BBC local radio station.

In our new podcast, Shrewsbury Town correspondent James Garrison and AFC Telford writer Chris Hudson look back on last week’s games and peer into the Shropshire Star crystal ball to see what this weekend will bring.

An energy plant which converts thousands of tonnes of waste into electricity has sparked into life at Shropshire’s Harper Adams University College.

Blog: Gas or Petrol? Whichever, but shouldn’t we be using less? asks Shropshire expat Mark Ellis in his letter from America.

A 36-year-old Shropshire man who was part of a gang which stole a £27,000 haul including a caravan and quad bike in rural night-time raids has been jailed for three years.

Destroying waste in a planned new £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury may be more costly to Shropshire Council than sending it to landfill, a planning inquiry has heard.

Newport town council will work with youngsters, residents and businesses to create a masterplan for the future.

Up to 40 jobs could be created at a Shrewsbury garden centre after bosses reached a deal with Waitrose for a new multi-million pound development.

Shrewsbury Town FC was today named as one of the fastest-growing companies in the country.

Skipper James Childs has urged free-scoring Bridgnorth to find another gear as they travel to fellow pacesetters Finchfield in an early season clash of the heavyweights.

One of Powys’ biggest towns has been left without an operating CCTV system for months because of funding problems and cutbacks, it has emerged.

MORE THAN £3.5 million is to  be spent on transforming two Shropshire railway stations.

The family of a wheelchair-bound teenager with dreams of representing his country at the Paralympics say they have taken him out of Oswestry School because of bullying and inadequate facilities.

Councillors have backed plans to hire a private firm to run Oswestry’s town centre Christmas decorations.

Film screenings to make cinema more accessible to people with learning disabilities will take place every month in Telford.

Oswestry Town Council will spend £50,000 on a ‘flagship’ public park after councillors admitted the current playground was ‘extremely disappointing’.

West Brom reporter Steve Madeley, Wolves reporter Tim Nash and Chief Sports Reporter Martin Swain were online and answering questions ahead of the Black Country Derby on Sunday.

The vice president of Shropshire Chamber of Commerce has resigned from the organisation after a row over who holds the balance of power.

A decision on controversial plans for a Tesco superstore in Tenbury Wells will be made four weeks later than expected, it has emerged.

More than 400 people have signed a petition against plans for a supermarket in Baschurch.

Blog: In West Mercia Police’s Corporate Communications Unit we have recently looking back on how we dealt locally with the national outbreak of disorder and violence that occurred in August, writes the force’s Web Development Officer Neil Tipton.

With the nights drawing in, more of us are likely to want some indoor entertainment to get us through the winter months.

Autumn chills can easily be banished by the popular new trends in homeware emerging on the high street.

You need to look backwards to look fashion-forward this season. A retro takeover has hit the fashion scene in a big way, with the Sixties being the influential decade of choice.