About 100 people will be asked to carry the Olympic Torch when it makes its way through Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin at the end of May.

When retired couple Geof and Jo Proffitt were given a book of paintings of Shropshire scenes, it set them off on an amazing three-year odyssey around the county.

Staff and children at a primary school in Broseley are celebrating after it received an ‘outstanding’ rating, the highest possible mark, from Ofsted inspectors.

Councillors have thrown out plans for more than 100 homes in Broseley for a second time.

Nearly 50 men screened for prostate cancer in a record-breaking event in Bridgnorth last month had possible signs of the disease in their blood, according to an analysis of the results.

For a while, the unthinkable seemed on the cards – that the Olympic torch would pass through Shropshire next summer without paying a visit to Much Wenlock, the spiritual home of the rebirth of the modern Olympics.

Plans to transform a Broseley field into a 107-home estate have been rejected amid fears old mining shafts could still exist.

Controversial proposals to build more than 100 homes in Broseley might now be passed after developers promised to build affordable properties, campaigners fear.

Campaigners who travelled to London in a bid to save one of Shropshire’s oldest primary schools from the axe are expecting to hear its fate by the beginning of next month.

A project set up to help vulnerable young people on a Telford estate will this week celebrate its success in getting them into work.

A round-up of this week’s Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures.

Campaigners fighting to save a Shropshire primary school from the axe will find out next month if they have been successful.

Broseley Juniors – one of Shropshire’s most successful football clubs – is in danger of folding.

A cannabis factory growing plants potentially worth thousands of pounds has been discovered by police in a farm building near Broseley.

A man who was allegedly stealing scrap metal was stopped in his tracks after quick-thinking staff at a Shropshire business blocked his van, police said.

THREE CLOSURE-THREATENED Shropshire primary schools today vowed that their battle to stay open would go on.

A round-up of this week’s Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures

A round-up of this week’s Shropshire Star nostalgia pictures

A power cut left nearly 1,500 homes and businesses in Telford without electricity today. People in Wellington, Arleston, Donnington, Broseley, Doseley and Horsehay reported problems.

His name is carved on Broseley war memorial, just one of many heroes from the town whose sacrifices are remembered with pride

The first of a series of public meetings over the future of nine schools in Shropshire will be held tonight – catch up with the debate as it happened.

Almost 200 parents, pupils, governors and staff staged protests at Shirehall today as Shropshire Council leaders met to discuss plans to axe nine schools in the county.

A 57-year-old Shropshire man has been jailed for 12 months after leading police on a high speed car chase through a built up area of Telford.

Letter: I would like to tell everyone about my new central heating combination boiler, fitted January 3, 2010, price £1,895.

One Shropshire schoolboy enjoyed a “monster” birthday when he was taken into school in a custom-made truck.

A police constable from Shropshire who quit the force shortly before being diagnosed with depression has won her case for unlawful discrimination.

A county contingent of martial artists have their eye on world glory next week.

A Shropshire councillor has voiced fears over police cuts across the county following alleged problems in one town when it lost its dedicated beat bobby.

A FORMER TEACHER from Shropshire has received £1.9 million in compensation after suffering devastating head injuries in a coach crash while returning from a French skiing holiday.

The remains of four people, found during building work, have been removed from the site of a former chapel in Shropshire, it was today revealed.