Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman has been forced to apologise for branding a senior coalition minister a “ginger rodent”. Here, the Shropshire Star’s James Shaw speaks up for the Ginger population.

Blog: My return from holiday this week (two weeks doing absolutely nothing, apart from a loving family, dogs, child, wife and fish, since you ask) posed few problems when it came to sniffing out stories, writes James Shaw.

As the largest agricultural show in the region, the West Mid Show rightly claims a large slice of our newspaper’s attention.

How does Britain’s Got Talent compare with that on offer in Telford?

I can’t pretent it doesn’t still hurt, writes blogger James Shaw. Five days after my first attempt at ice hockey in well over ten years my muscles still ache.

It has been quite some time since my last blog, so much has, inevitably, changed in the online video world – or has it?

One of the more terrifying aspects of being a video journalist is the dreaded piece to camera, writes Star video blogger James Shaw.

Inspiration can come from the strangest of places – but it all helps when you’re a newly-annointed video journalist, writes Video Blogger James Shaw.

The departure of Shrewsbury Town manager Gary Peters yesterday presented us video journalists with a timing problem, writes Video Blogger James Shaw – and showed why turning a story around is never straightforward.

It is an age-old requirement that has served us well throughout the years – but how does that work when it comes to video, writes our video blogger James Shaw. 

An unclaimed lottery ticket could net someone in the Oswestry area more than £50,000.

Much of my time over the last few weeks has been taken up by our Battle of the Bands contest, writes Video Blogger James Shaw.