For my last Twitter Talk column before heading off to pastures new, I was keen to talk to the man behind Shrewsbury Flower Show’s twitter feed, ahead of this year’s eagerly-anticipated annual event, now in its 123rd year.

When Jan Minihane swapped a high-flying life in London for bringing up two wonderful little boys in Shropshire, she didn’t realise she would become so actively involved with her local branch of the National Childbirth Trust.

This week we’re following the enchanting story of a Shropshire woman’s life between two continents. Maureen Davies from Telford moved to Nanyuki in Kenya last year to care for her husband as he recovered from a life-saving operation.

Light pollution is a topic that’s gathering worldwide momentum, and in a quiet corner of Shropshire, one man is joining in to campaign against it and recover our dark skies.

A prominent firm of Shropshire architects have just arrived on Twitter, and have been using the site to tweet about worldwide architectural breakthroughs as well as exciting local projects they’re working on.

Until a few years ago, our lively capital city was the only place you could catch a really unusual, international or unreleased film from an exciting independent director. That is, until now…

An Oswestry man is putting Shropshire back on the literary map by staging a week-long festival celebrating his town’s most famous former resident, the First World War poet Wilfred Owen.

From his office in Shrewsbury, Martin Brian Jones, one of the managing directors of the Woodland Stewardship Company, manages a forest in New York State covering 18.5 million acres – larger than all the forest land within the UK.

While most of us might spend our Wednesday evenings snuggled up on the sofa, professional downhill mountain biker Rob Smith heads out under the cover of darkness each week with 40 like-minded souls to tackle some of Shropshire’s most challenging terrains.

Dame Judy Dench and Michael Palin have both enjoyed trips on it, while Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski is a regular –Wrexham and Shropshire Rail has become a much-loved service since it was launched in April 2008.

With so many of the county’s businesses and individuals now using Twitter, we wanted to give our followers the chance to tell us about the things that make our county so special. And the result? The 2009 Shropshire Star Twitter Awards!

Shrewsbury’s popular @TheatreSevern has joined the Twitter community and staff have been using the site to post events, ticket availability, reviews and information from the stages, the restaurant and the bar.