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An award-winning Shropshire chocolatier hopes to sample the sweet taste of success after designing a new bar that pays homage to her home county.

Telford Tigers will feature a much-changed line-up this weekend as they look to capitalise on home advantage against fellow play-off chasers Peterborough Phantoms and Bracknell Bees.

Shropshire Council says it will save money by clamping down on the number of conferences and events that its members can attend each year.

A talented young footballer from Telford has shown off more of his silky skills, after a video showing him lobbing balls through basketball hoops became an internet hit.

Royal British Legion branch members in Market Drayton are celebrating raising a record-breaking amount for this year’s Poppy Appeal despite the nation’s economic woes.

Bridgnorth skipper Gareth Bladen insists they could be in trouble if they take struggling Shrewsbury for granted in tomorrow’s Shropshire derby.

A Christmas concert due to be held on Ludlow’s Dinham Millennium Green has been cancelled due to an administrative blunder, it has been revealed.

A desperate shortage of football pitches in Newport could force the town’s leading team to look elsewhere to play its home matches, the club’s chairman Phil Lewis has warned.

Chris Hudson and Alex James discuss Shrewsbury Town and AFC Telford’s latest results and upcoming fixtures in the Friday Football Podcast.

This week’s collection of nostalgia pictures taken from the pages of the Shropshire Star.

Having seen the headline, ‘Every school to get a King James Bible’ on the front page of the Shropshire Star recently, my heart jumped for joy.

Jolly green ogre Shrek and his sweetheart Princess Fiona amassed nearly three billion dollars at the global box office before heading into the fairytale sunset at the conclusion of yesteryear's Shrek Ever After.

If it was possible to wring out the mawkish sentiment from Hollywood films, much like a water-saturated sponge, then New Year's Eve would comfortably produce several buckets of syrup.

Three years after Harold and Kumar escaped Guantanamo Bay, the stoner buddies deck the halls with illegal substances in this loud, brash and outlandish escapade directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson.

A 79-year-old pensioner died after falling while walking from her care home to the shops to buy bread – despite staff being told not to take her out without a wheelchair, an inquest heard.

There are no plans for mass staff redundancies at Shropshire Council, its leader vowed today.

A Shropshire councillor is seeing red because he says the ‘Wrekin Beacon’ has not been lit up for weeks.

More than a tonne of food has been collected to help Oswestry’s poorest residents this Christmas – but red-tape means some of it can’t be handed out.

Drugs and counterfeit clothes, shoes and jewellery were seized following a raid at a country club near Bridgnorth.

Gary Barlow’s confirmed The X Factor judges will duet with their acts during Saturday’s X Factor final.

While it's the season to be jolly, those what-to-wear dilemmas can wipe the festive smile right off your face.

The next 48 hours could be the defining period of David Cameron’s premiership.

The new bosses of Shrewsbury’s Emstrey Crematorium today denied they had any plans to remove two large symbolic Christian crosses under multi-million pound plans to overhaul the site.

A teenager from Shrewsbury who cares for her mother has been selected as an Olympic torch bearer, it was confirmed this afternoon.

An elderly man has died following a fall from a building in Shrewsbury town centre earlier this morning.

The family of a teenager who died after being hit by a train near Oswestry today described him as ‘everything you could ask for in a son, brother, relative and friend’.

It would seem the increase in popularity of real trees hasn't hampered the appearance of those with tinsel branches.

Take heart if you're tiring of the annual buying-fest that is today's Christmas and yearn for a more homely celebration reminiscent of days gone by.

The family of a 68-year-old pensioner who died from a paracetamol overdose three weeks after being admitted to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital with a fractured hip today said they would be pursuing a civil claim against the trust.

A 43-year-old Shropshire woman who pinned her lover to the floor with a knife after a row about a Christmas present has been jailed for three years.