On August 16, 1828, Ann Harris became the last woman to be publicly executed in Shrewsbury in a month when the gallows of the town’s jail were kept busy.  

Former top athlete Colin Jackson will be in Mid Wales next week as part of a national campaign to promote the use of libraries.

Do you see ghosts? Are you interested in developing your psychic abilities – but don’t know how? Church Stretton’s Helen Leathers is hoping to come to the rescue with her new book, which covers everything from how to see auras to the risks of using a ouija board.  

There are two passions in the life of award-winning novelist Louis De Bernières: writing and music, writes Andy Richardson.

One of TV’s original “celebrity chefs” is to pay a visit to Shrewsbury, it was announced today.

A former Ludlow journalist who wrote about Tenbury Wells for several years has published a new book about the area. Andy Richardson talks to the chronicler of a lifestyle changed beyond recognition. 

The short and intense life of a famous Austrian painter has inspired an acclaimed debut novel by a Shropshire author set in Vienna at the turn of the 19th century.

A Shropshire man has released his latest literary feast – packed full with local references – online for the very first time.

Ding dong! Ding dong! It was the chimes of the bells of nearby Morville Church which sowed the seed of a book idea in the mind of Dr Katherine Swift as she toiled in the garden.  

In casting around for ways to highlight the plight of farming communities, some young farmers come up with a bright idea – why not get a cow called Honesty to stand for Parliament?  

A real bunker mentality has seen one Shropshire man’s driving ambition pay off. The Star’s Ben Bentley says “putt it there, Albert Minshall”.

In 1921 a sequence of events took place at a quiet rural railway station in Mid Wales which was to lead to a terrible tragedy which was to reverberate across the British Empire.