A couple whose weight ‘crept up’ over several years are celebrating after shedding six-and-a-half stones between them in the space of seven months.

A woman was attacked by two thieves when she gave chase to try to stop them stealing from the shop where she worked in Telford, police said today.

A beauty boss had to find new members of staff to cover a baby boom at her salon in Telford – only for one of them to fall pregnant too.

Gardener Georgina Duncan certainly got her money’s worth when she planted some summer bedding plants last year – as some of them are still flowering.

Cannabis plants, controlled drugs and suspected stolen property were seized and 15 people arrested as part of a series of dawn raids in Telford today.

Mary Portas says many High Streets are dying. She might be pleasantly surprised if she came to Shropshire.

Opening times could be slashed at Telford’s nine libraries to save more than £330,000, it emerged this afternoon.

Plans have been submitted for a new canopy to replace one which dramatically collapsed at a new £35m school in Telford, injuring five workmen.

A man has been given an indeterminate jail sentence for assaulting his victim with a pick axe handle leaving him with serious injuries.

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

Council snoopers will be sifting through bins in Telford’s Woodside and parts of Madeley in a pilot scheme to increase the authority’s recycling quota.

Telford policeman Sergeant Louis Hylton said he joked with the Queen as she honoured him with an MBE during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

Cannabis plants with a street value of nearly £40,000 were seized by police in a raid on a Telford home today.

The sister of a Telford teenager who died in a mystery shed fire today called for justice on the 21st anniversary of his death.

Determined Quatt are refusing to throw in the towel as they plot a late charge for unlikely glory in the Marston’s Shropshire Premier League.

Five men injured when the steel roof canopy of Telford’s Abraham Darby Academy’s building collapsed have all been released from hospital.

A 24-year-old man accused of a late night attack on a woman in Bridgnorth has appeared at Shrewsbury Crown Court.

A 24-year-old man was today jailed for five-and-a-half years after killing a Telford factory worker by smashing a bottle of vodka over his head.

A new £25 million Telford school has moved a step closer to completion after workers finished building its huge domed roof.

A woman in her 30s was dragged into woodland in Telford and raped as she walked home from a night out the early hours.

Rating **** Cathy Stanworth investigates a pub that’s undergone a successful revamp.

Council bosses are being urged to back the closure of two infant schools in Telford to pave the way for the creation of new primaries.

Distraction burglars stole hundreds of pounds from the home of an 81-year-old woman in Telford while she was hanging out her washing, police said today.

A Madeley shopkeeper is selling up after more than 20 years because she says she is fed up with the impact of the new Tesco superstore which officially opened a year ago as the centrepiece of a flagship scheme to regenerate the core of the town.

A charity ball will be held in memory of a Shropshire woman who was murdered by her father.

More than three quarters of Shropshire’s secondary schools have introduced a ban on “extreme” haircuts to control the soaring trend for 21st century crops, it was revealed today.

Refurbishment work on a Shropshire shopping centre could force businesses to close and people to lose their jobs, it was claimed today.

Yobs hurled a brick through a church window during a service, with shards of glass landing just feet from terrified parishioners.

A man has been charged with theft and possession of a knife following an incident that took place at the Madeley branch of Tesco yesterday afternoon.

A masked raider armed with a metal bar attacked a man during a late night attempted robbery at a Shropshire hotel. The man was wearing a balaclava and carrying a pole.