A £100,000 skatepark in a deprived area of Telford will be officially unveiled to the public next week.

Council leaders in Telford today moved to lobby the Ministry of Defence in a bid to attract a military centre of excellence to the town.

Shropshire can boast two new Midlands amateur boxing champions – and the duo will now be chasing national titles.

Plans for a plant to deal with rubbish in Telford, which supporters claim could bring £2 million a year into council coffers, could be scrapped, it was claimed today.

Everyone has seen the footage, the moment which brought the world’s showpiece sporting event to Britain’s shores.

A record-breaking number of entrants and supporters turned out for the fifth annual Newport January Jog.

Youngsters had an extra day at home today after a school in Shropshire was forced to close due to heating problems.

A couple and their two children from Telford have become the first armed forces family in the country to benefit from a Government scheme to help people get a foot on the housing ladder.

A telegraph pole exploded sending sparks shooting into a Telford street, before collapsing into the front garden of a house.

Thousands more homes and businesses in Shropshire are poised to benefit from super-fast broadband as part of a major roll-out by BT.

The operator of Telford’s multi-million-pound International Railfreight Park has quit a 15-year lease after losing money on the scheme, it emerged this afternoon.

A five-year-old boy needed to be rescued by firefighters after he got his head stuck under a toilet cubicle at a supermarket.

Thousands of Ministry of Defence workers in Shropshire are to join a national walkout this month in protest at public sector pension changes, a union leader said today.

A unique Shropshire firm which makes energy saving fuel systems has been bought out by an American investor in a deal which will eventually top £4 million.

Up to 15,000 people took advantage of a crisp and clear November evening to attend one of Shropshire’s biggest bonfire parties.

Bosses of a booming Telford company are struggling to fill 30 vacancies despite offering training, advertising and salaries ranging from £12,500 to a possible £60,000.

The Wrekin Housing Trust has recently taken over the ownership and management of almost 120 extra Telford homes.

Developers have praised the efforts of firefighters after they saved an historic building in Telford from destruction.

The number of people who have died in house fires in Shropshire this year is the highest since records began.

Officers investigating a fatal house fire in Telford are not treating the blaze as suspicious, police today said.

A £100,000 skate park looks set to be built in Donnington, Telford, making it the first of its kind in the county.

A woman believed to be in her 50s has died and a man in his 30s was injured in a house fire in Telford.

The Little Theatre in Donnington will perform its latest extravaganza of excerpts from popular operettas and opera, Top of the Ops, from November 3 to November 5.

TWO HUNDRED jobs will be created in a huge expansion by Shropshire dairy Nom, it was announced today.

Crushed cars, bodies strewn across the road and victims screaming for help – this was the daunting task facing emergency services at a multiple car crash in Telford last night.

A teenager was left with head injuries after being assaulted by a gang of men wielding a steel baton in Telford.

A woman claimed £38,000 in benefits by pretending to be a single mum, a court has heard.

Two people have been taken to hospital in Telford after a crash in Donnington.

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

An alleged member of a child sex ring in Telford picked up two schoolgirls and told them they would have to do “something sexual” to get a lift home, a court heard.