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An abuse of anonymity?

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Website ratemyteachers.com has been criticised for undermining teachers’ authority. The firm behind it, however, says it is helping education. Andrew Owen tries to find out who is right.

Mum with prediction power

Psychic Academy

Ben Bentley meets a mother with psychic skills

A plague of greenfly on our houses

Greenfly. We're facing a plague of them this summer.

We might be basking in lovely summer weather at the moment but these are also ideal conditions for the rapid proliferation of common greenfly, or aphids. In fact, the greenfly invasion seems to have been worse than ever over the past couple of weeks.

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Cooking with Jean-Christophe

Jean-Christophe Novelli talks to Andy Richardson ahead of his appearance at this weekend’s West Mid Show.

A new chapter Down Under

County woman Annie Waddington-Feather has undertaken a research project after moving to Australia.

A magical Harry Potter experience

Shropshire photographer and Harry Potter fan Dee Jarvis had a magical time when she visited the set of the final movie about the boy wizard.

Revenge on the internet conmen

Dear friend, have you been offered money in emails from far-off lands? Then find out how solicitor David Cooper took on the scammers - and wrote a book about it.

Explaining county fuel prices

Why, on some Shropshire forecourts, is unleaded more expensive? Anyone with a GCSE in chemistry will tell you that diesel requires less refining than unleaded petrol, and uses less crude oil to produce.

Glimpse behind the scenes at BB house

With two housemates from the county in this series of Big Brother, the Shropshire Star’s very own BB – Ben Bentley – visited Elstree Film Studios in London to watch the madness for himself.

Policeman’s lot was quite a happy one

Graham French is saying goodbye to Weston Rhyn after 23 years as its local copper.

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