Thieves have smashed their way into a Shropshire children’s nursery for the third time in eight months, it was revealed today, after intruders broke through three doors to get in.

A speed camera in Telford was set on fire by suspected arsonists at the weekend – just weeks after it was last targeted.

When Shropshire couple Jean Potter and Gordon Sheward met on a coach trip to Scotland in the twilight of their lives it was love at first sight.

A factory worker from Shropshire who stabbed a friend to death in a “moment of madness” has lost an appeal against his 20-year minimum jail sentence.

A speed camera in Telford targeted by arsonists is still out of action more than two weeks after the attack, officials today revealed.

Owners of petrol stations across the county are being hit in the pocket by Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to enforce a 1p drop in fuel duty, it has been claimed.

Profits at Shropshire cooker manufacturer Aga soared during 2010 as the firm bounced back after a slump in the previous two years.

An unemployed Shropshire man who hit a member of a band playing at a charity concert with a glass has been put behind bars for a year.

More than £30,000 worth of jewellery and cash has been stolen from a Telford home.

Emergency recycling collections were due to continue in parts of Shropshire today as council bosses continue to battle a build up of rubbish following the Arctic weather conditions which hit the county.

A development of 83 homes will be built in an area of Telford after councillors approved the second phase of the town’s Millennium Community.

It was a story which caused a sensation in Edwardian England, writes Toby Neal. Ultimately Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was on the case, and top politicians were dragged in.

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

Letter: Higher education via university is without doubt the key to the UK’s prosperity.

A 44-year-old factory worker from Telford who stabbed a colleague to death in a petty row was today beginning a life sentence.

Scrap metal thefts in Shropshire have cost the county’s councils tens of thousands of pounds in three years, figures reveal today.

A Telford window cleaner was today fighting for his life in hospital after falling from a ladder at a two-storey house.

Proposals to refurbish and convert a dilapidated listed church hall in Telford into a three-bedroom home are in the pipeline.

Acclaimed French actor Gerard Depardieu loves the Shropshire-made Aga cooker and fridge in his Paris home so much he has arranged a visit to the county next week to see for himself how they are made.

Bosses at Aga Rangemaster today announced they were back in the black, with pre-tax profits of £16.4 million.

A Shropshire photographer today claimed he caught three youths redhanded breaking into and attempting to steal his grandson’s car.

A Telford man denied murdering an engineer found dead in a west London industrial unit when he appeared at the Old Bailey.

Reviewer’s rating **** Kirsty Smallman finally returns to a regular haunt of yesteryear for a family meal.

There’s much talk about the death of the great British pub. But in Shropshire some landlords are fighting back, as Alex James reports.

The new coalition Government has announced plans to limit CCTV, so Shropshire Star writer Alex James took a trip across Shropshire to see if he could evade the prying eyes of our Big Brother state. His findings make for startling reading.

More than 3,300 homes and businesses in Telford were without power for two hours today.

An 11-year-old boy suffered a fractured skull after he was in collision with a car in Telford.

An 11-year-old boy was taken to the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford after he was knocked down by a car in Waterloo Road, Ketley, this afternoon.

Health and hygiene ratings for about 60 more restaurants, takeaways and other food outlets in Telford & Wrekin have been released.

A pet cat was recovering this weekend after dragging itself home with one blood-soaked paw crushed inside an animal trap.