Blog: Normally I waffle on about something in the news. Usually, I take the mick. But this week is a bit different.

Blog: Do you remember 1967? Or maybe you’re too young, writes Dave Morris.

Blog: The queue to watch a screening at the Palladium cinema of Summer Holiday starring Cliff Richard and The Shadows, stretched from the front steps of building and all the way down a side street.

Blog: The times they are a changing sang Bob Dylan.

Blog: My hands were so cold that I struggled to change gears on my motor scooter.

After well over 40 years enjoying the life of a journalist in Shropshire I will be hanging up my pen and notepad(not chisel and stone as some colleagues have unkindly suggested!) next month.

Blog: The day was just perfect. The sun was shining, the sea was a beautiful blue, and the views of the Lleyn Peninsula were stunning.

Blog: I well remember as a young boy the thrilling news of the first human space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, writes Dave Morris.

Blog: Good grief – talk about information overload.

Blog: Back in 1968, the shopping streets of the Shropshire town where I worked as a cub reporter were thriving, writes Dave Morris.

Blog: Shirehall leaders and education bosses are being left in doubt that they have a big fight on their hands over the future of county schools.

Blog: Shropshire is going to be left with a bitter taste, whatever decision is taken on plans to reshape hospital services.

Do Ena Sharples, Minnie Caldwell and Martha Longhurst still get together for a glass of milk stout in the snug bar of the Rovers Return in Coronation Street?

Blog: The Shirehall is a far from happy place as Shropshire Council undergoes a major massive transformation of the way it operates.

Shropshire Star education correspondent Dave Morris looks at how the new education changes will affect the county’s pupils.

The ambulance service which covers Shropshire has spent more than £360,000 on buying four “alternative response vehicles” – or to put it more bluntly, special ambulances which can cope with the increasing number of fat patients.

Blog: These are not happy times for the bosses of the trust which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Telford’s Princess Royal, writes health correspondent Dave Morris

Blog: Council and health officials in Shropshire say that reducing obesity in primary school children is still a “priority” as new figures show the number of reception age children classed as obese is above the national average.

Schools across Shropshire are about to enter what promises to be a difficult new year with tight budgets, cuts to education support services and demands to raise classroom standards.

Blog: The Government is talking tough and warning that pupils will be given an “MOT” to ensure they can read properly at the age of six.

Blog: The Government’s Education White Paper has announced plans to encourage to encourage servicemen leaving the forces to re-train as teachers under a “Troops to Teachers” programme.

Blog: How wonderful, among all the ongoing doom and gloom, to have something to celebrate – and I’m not referring to a certain wedding next April, writes Dave Morris.

Core Strategy – the words appear to be typical ‘councilese’ jargon and rather dry, writes Local Government Correspondent Dave Morris.

Blog: Oscar winning Emma Thompson has turned her attention towards English grammar and those who do not speak properly like what me and you does.

Shropshire Council spent £5,000 on a training course for its leader – which included a trip overseas.

Blog: Life seems to be going on as normal in Shropshire despite the massive savings (or do we say cuts?) Shirehall bosses plan to make.

Blog: Shrewsbury Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski has warned that changing Britain’s voting system could help extremists like the BNP. Frankly I’m not bothered whether we keep to first-past-the-post elections.

Is this the end of the world as we know it? asks Health Correspondent Dave Morris.

Many headteachers across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin don’t like school performance tables, writes education correspondent Dave Morris.

We all know Shropshire is a wonderful part of the world, writes Dave Morris.