Rating: **** British classics are a firm focus of this newly-named hotel restaurant, writes Andy Richardson.

Cash-strapped Telford & Wrekin Council must pay out more than £200 million over the next 23 years to contractors who built Hadley Learning Community, it has been revealed.

A paperwork glitch has left two Royal British Legion groups in Shropshire without invitations to the RBL’s National Annual Convention – despite the event being in the county.

Firefighters have been called to a spate of grass fires in Shropshire and Mid Wales over the weekend.

Angry residents  on a Telford estate today called for a metal fence to be put up behind their homes to guard against yobs who are hurling rocks and metal poles at them.

Two teenagers were taken to hospital after being found with stab wounds at a house in Telford.

Cameras could go up to deter criminals at the gates of industrial estates in Shropshire after business bosses suggested paying for them. The idea was revealed by Telford Business Partnership member Graham Wynn last night.

More than 1,500 homes across Telford were left in the dark after a power cut which saw some residents lose mains supply for more than 14 hours.

More crime was reported in Lawley and Overdale than any other area of Telford & Wrekin in the last year, figures revealed today.

An 18-year-old Shropshire man was attacked by two men as he walked near a row of shops.

Burglars on a motorbike smashed their way into a Shropshire newsagents and fled with £5,000 worth of cigarettes in the latest in a series of raids.

A man thought to be the oldest former pupil of a Telford primary school was back behind his desk today to help it celebrate its centenary.

Two telford teenagers have been locked up for their part in a knife attack.

A teenager was left battered and bruised by three men who attacked him with a baseball bat in Telford.

A £1 million haul of illegal drugs was discovered in a delivery bound for a Shropshire meat company.

More than 400 workers at Telford’s GKN Sankey plant in Hadley have been balloted on strike action in a dispute about pay.

A cannabis factory containing £200,000 worth of illegal drugs, which included around 200 plants, has been discovered by detectives in Telford.

Guests bound for a Shropshire hotel are getting their stays off to a frustrating start by being sent the wrong way by sat navs, it was claimed today.

Jobs at a new engineering support centre in Shropshire are safe for the time being despite the loss of a £4 billion deal for armoured vehicles by defence giant BAE Systems.

The Telford’s Talent search continued at the Hadley Learning Community – and for once, the judges were in a good mood.

Another area in Telford could be transformed to provide a “first rate” shopping centre if a £3.8 million cash injection is approved by council chiefs.

A round-up of the Shropshire Star’s nostalgia pictures for the week ending January 31, 2010.

One of the last patches of open space in a Telford parish is now off limits to developers after borough councillors decided to officially designate it a village green.

A Telford man who dropped a drinks can in bushes has been left with a bill of £465.

Plans for the first phase of a 1,000-home development on the site of a Shropshire quarry have been recommended for approval, it has been revealed.

Letter: I read PB Johnston’s letter about being worried by Muslim extremists. I read the letter and thought it necessary to educate him/her on Islam, in particular on the rights of women.

A Telford cat breeder who kept 72 animals in such appalling conditions at her small home that 28 of them had to be put down has been given a suspended prison sentence.

A flying visit by Father Christmas brought a smile to the faces of brave children in Shropshire who have battled injury over the past 12 months.

Our video team visited Hadley Under-5s in Telford to take a look at how the youngsters are getting on with rehersals for the upcoming nativity play – and we got some great answers.

A bogus Army captain is targeting vulnerable Shropshire pensioners by asking for cash to go towards a coffin for a soldier killed in Iraq, police said today.