Mystery surrounds the closure of a golf club in Shropshire after members turned up for a round – only to be told by a party of duck hunters to get off the land.

A school has apologised to the owner of two dogs after one of its pupils threw a firecracker at one of them in a crowded street in Bridgnorth.

Police have been called in to deal with the issue of dog fouling after a complaint was made by an ‘incensed’ resident.

When a Shropshire family moved just 100 yards down the road, little did they know that it would more than double their car insurance.

Black Panther Donald Neilson – who murdered Shropshire heiress Lesley Whittle in 1975 – has died in hospital, it was announced this afternoon.

Controversial proposals for housing in a village near Bridgnorth have been approved despite calls for them to be thrown out.

Shropshire’s Severn Valley Railway hosted a ceremony honouring nine people who were killed during the Battle of Britain when a German bomber attacked the line they were training on.

Seven sites earmarked for 400 specialist homes for elderly people in Shropshire could be sold off after planned Government funding for the scheme was cancelled.

A 30-year-old Shropshire man has been jailed indefinitely after setting fire to a county rugby club causing more than £30,000 damage.

A Shropshire woman falsely accused of stealing almost £3,000 from residents of a county care home today described how the ordeal had ruined her life leaving her unable to even face her neighbours.

A Shropshire director’s debut movie is to be featured at a top London film festival later this month.

North Midlands Rugby Football Union has pledged to do all it can to help a Shropshire village club which lost almost £4,000 worth of kit and equipment in a suspected arson attack.

Fire has destroyed a Shropshire rugby club changing rooms, causing thousands of pounds of damage.

A Shropshire man who defrauded a car enthusiasts’ club out of thousands of pounds was today jailed for nine months.

A movie shot in Shropshire about the adventures of a madcap detective is to get its world premiere in the county next month.

Almost 200 homes in a Shropshire village were left without water when two mains in the area burst. Stores in Highley, near Bridgnorth, sold out of bottles of water as villagers rushed to stock up until supplies were restored.

Arsonists set rubbish and a wheelie bin on fire in the latest in a series of attacks on a Shrewsbury estate.

Reviewer’s rating ***** Rex M Key finds everything is just right at a riverside pub which has undergone a huge revamp.

An elderly couple were injured when the car they were travelling in hit a telegraph pole in Shropshire causing a power cut to five homes.

Schemes to boost the arts for children in Shropshire and Mid Wales could get a cash boost in the Shropshire Star’s great Cash 4 Schools campaign.

The former leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament has helped keep on track Lib Dem candidate Heather Kidd’s campaign to win back Ludlow for the party.

Proposals to switch off street lights across Shropshire to save money and fight climate change have been met with a mixed reaction from civic and business leaders in the county.

Hundreds of two-bedrooms flats will be built across Shropshire in a £136 million project to provide care facilities for older people and those with dementia.

Residents of a Shropshire village have expressed shock that a teacher facing a string of sex charges was living in the area without parents and neighbours being informed.

A Shropshire man has died in a road smash on the eve of his trial for sexual offences against children.

Letter: Mines were closed, miners were put off work, and to this very day Britain is importing nearly one million tonnes of coal a year from Poland and Russia; in fact Ironbridge power station is run on Russian coal.

The former treasurer of a Shropshire village residents’ association who forged a colleague’s signature on cheques to obtain cash for herself has been told to do 160 hours community work.

An essential knot which should have secured the mast of a sailing boat that crashed through the windscreen of an oncoming car fatally injuring a Shropshire teenager, must have come undone or not been tied at all, a court heard.

A Shropshire teenager was killed when the mast of a sailing dinghy pierced the windscreen of the car she was travelling in like “a lance in a medieval jousting contest”, a court heard today.

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