People in Shropshire and mid Wales woke up to treacherous conditions today as snow and ice left roads hazardous.

Shropshire owners of oil-fired Agas are finding their ranges are going out because of a ruling from Europe insisting on greener fuel.

A round-up of this week’s Shropshire Star nostlagia pictures, including Wellington actors, Prees Heath prisoners and Shrewsbury bus drivers.

Decorative iron garden furniture built by the famous Coalbrookdale foundry in Shropshire more than 100 years ago has fetched almost £40,000 at auction.

Three centuries ago Abraham Darby did something which changed the world forever.

Thoughts will turn to the winter of our discontent in the height of summer when a production of Shakespeare’s classic Richard III comes to Ironbridge this weekend.

A team of specially trained RSPCA inspectors were drafted in to carry out a potentially perilous rescue operation – to save a duck stuck in a culvert in Ironbridge.

About 1,500 properties were plunged into darkness by a massive power cut across Telford. Firms on an industrial estate were today forced to use generators as the black-out continued.

Television’s king of the outdoors Ben Fogle and a BBC film crew have paid a visit to a Telford woodland management centre.

A huge 35-tonne historic locomotive has been moved to its new home at a Shropshire museum as part of a £12 million revamp.

22 April 2009: Our themes for this week are ancient and modern, and we’ve got an eclectic mix of period Grade II listed properties and brand new, ready-to-move-into homes on new developments.