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Blog: Mums pressured to lose pregnancy weight?

I put on four stone when I was expecting my first child, writes Amy Bould. So I, more than most, might be qualified to talk about research today which reveals six out of 10 new mothers feel under pressure to lose their pregnancy weight quickly

Blog: Mums pressured to lose pregnancy weight?

New businesses launch in Shropshire

New Shropshire businesses are hoping to drfy the recession.

New businesses launch in Shropshire

Strictly star Camilla Dallerup seeks Shropshire dancers

Former Strictly Come Dancing champion Camilla Dallerup will be heading to Shropshire to step out with shoppers – in a special performance of a routine called the “choo choo choo”.

Camilla Dallerup

Brave Shropshire youngster thanks charity

When little Annie-May Johnson complained of a headache she was taken to an optician’s for a check up. Little did she or her family know that within hours of the appointment the youngster would be undergoing life-saving surgery.

Brave Shropshire youngster thanks charity

Shrewsbury and District Ladies’ Circle is reformed

Friends have joined together to re-form a Shropshire social group, which ran for 54 years before folding in 2003.

Shrewsbury and District Ladies’ Circle is reformed

Blog: Clothes maketh the woman a bit smaller (in her mind)

Blog: So, according to a Which? survey, it turns out shopkeepers have been secretly adding a few extra inches to measurements allowed for standard dress sizes, increasing bust and hip measurements just enough to allow us to squeeze our well-fed behinds into the size we’d like to believe we are.

Blog: Clothes maketh the woman a bit smaller (in her mind)

What happened to my baby boy?

It’s almost half a century since Carol Boulder was given the devastating news that her baby boy was stillborn.

What happened to my baby boy?

Artist’s work to go on display thirty years after her death

Pictures painted by a Shropshire woman who died in a car crash almost 30 years ago are being exhibited together for the first time since her death.

Artist’s work to go on display thirty years after her death

Fashion and beauty to aid Hope House Hospice event

A group of Year 10 pupils from a Shropshire school plan to help in a major fund-raising drive to generate funds for Hope House Children’s Hospice.

Fashion and beauty to aid Hope House Hospice event

Getting ready for my stage debut

Rehearsals continue a pace for my Theatre Severn debut, writes Shropshire Star reporter Emma Kasprzak.

Getting ready for my stage debut

Fill a box for Operation Christmas Child

Operation Christmas Child, one of the UK’s leading annual children’s charity projects, is seeking support from people in Shropshire as it marks the 20th anniversary of its famous “shoebox” campaign.

Fill a box for Operation Christmas Child

TV-am’s Nick Owen offers advice to Daybreak hosts

As Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley take their first steps in the brave new world of breakfast television, one man knows better than most what the duo are going through.

TV-am’s Nick Owen offers advice to Daybreak hosts

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