Star comment: Marks & Spencer still at forefront of high street
If you look at the latest results from Marks & Spencer you might reach the conclusion that fashion goes in and out of fashion, but eating never does.
If you look at the latest results from Marks & Spencer you might reach the conclusion that fashion goes in and out of fashion, but eating never does.
Former HBOS chief executive Sir James Crosby did not award himself a knighthood for his “services to banking” and it is therefore not up to him to give the knighthood back.
When the Shropshire Star first came into being, on October 5, 1964, our day-to-day lives were very different.
Sir James Crosby. Lord Stevenson. And Andy Hornby, who presumably still had a while to go before getting his knighthood.
The rhetoric from North Korea could not be more inflammatory nor more calculated to raise tension.
People are already feeling pretty disgruntled about the latest benefits shake-up, particularly where the Government’s so-called ‘bedroom tax’ is concerned.
The Government has been on a rocky political road for some months now, but few of its initiatives have sparked such public anger as the so-called ‘bedroom tax’, which officially came into being this morning.
A few weeks ago the police announced a number of police station closures across Shropshire, but assured us that overall things would actually be better as a result.
What has the Shropshire and Mid Wales countryside got to offer to the young?
Today a contract was being signed which will permit rural Shropshire to join the 21st century technological revolution.
You could call it teething troubles. You could also call it a farce which has actually made things worse.
Crisis averted – for now. That seems to be the general consensus today after a frantic bout of late- night political wheeling and dealing saved Cyprus from the brink of bankruptcy and banking collapse.