Britain’s small screen sirens stepped it up in the glamour stakes to prove the award ceremonies for Hollywood’s finest are not the only star-studded events to spark a red carpet showdown.

Shropshire crime writer Priscilla Masters will be celebrating her latest book at a launch in Shrewsbury next month.

Blog: This Richard Keys and Andy Gray saga, talk about a storm in a teacup – actually am I allowed to say teacup or does it infer that I am suggesting a woman’s place is in the kitchen and she should be making a brew?

Blog: Saturday’s post-match ramblings into still-active microphones might have been laddish and inaccurate – suggesting that a female assistant referee didn’t know the offside rule – but let’s stop this slide towards further action and demands for sackings.

Blog: Some mornings my son is so beautifully adorable that I feel the worst pang of green-eyed monster and I hate the “other woman” in our lives. Or actually I should make that the “other women”.

A Shropshire teenager who almost missed out on her dream of becoming a nurse because of a police warning she received when she was 13 has had her plight featured on prime-time TV.

One in 10 four- to five-year-old children starting school across the whole of Shropshire is obese, which is above the national average, new figures show.

Tinseltown’s leading ladies set the bar high for Oscars night as they unleashed a wave of covetable trends and gorgeous gowns to officially launch the awards season in opulent style.

“Does my bump look big in this?” There was a time when a mother-to-be would be hoping the answer to that question would be a resounding yes.

Blog: More people are declaring that 60 is the new 40 and 70 the new 50, if you get my drift, while the very old homily that you’re only as old as you feel is regularly trotted out.

Blog: “Drive carefully and be aware of what’s happening on the roads and give yourself plenty of time to stop and not much can happen.” That’s what my husband said when I admitted over Christmas that I hated driving in the cold snap and facing treacherous conditions on some of Shropshire’s roads.

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