The Shropshire Star has been given video of the blaze which destroyed the Spar Shop in Malinslee last week. See the film here.

A man was hit by a brick in Shropshire moments after telling a gang of youths he had no cigarettes to give them, police said today.

THE OWNER of a Shropshire supermarket was attacked by a gang of yobs just days before his shop was destroyed in an arson attack, a leading detective revealed today.

Arsonists smashed down the back doors of a Telford supermarket to start a fire which razed it to the ground, detectives revealed today.

Residents today spoke of their shock at being awoken in the middle of the night to find 60-foot flames billowing from the roof of a Shropshire supermarket.

A 26-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a robbery at a Telford store.

A prolific Shropshire burglar who has been on the run from police for more than a month was back behind bars today after detectives found him hiding out at a county home.

A police hunt was under way today for a prolific Shropshire burglar who is on the run. 

Developers today launched a last-ditch bid to tempt supermarket giant Asda out of moving from Telford Shopping Centre.

A Telford man who turned a teenager into a human torch has failed to convince the nation’s top judge his recommended 27-year jail term was too harsh.

A Telford animal lover got a “shock” when she sat down to watch television and realised her dog was giving birth to an unexpected nine puppies – on the ninth of the ninth, 2009.

Thugs armed with hammers attacked a man as he left a phone box in Telford. The 24-year-old, who has not been named, was taken to hospital with cuts and bruises and a puncture wound the size of a 2p piece on his stomach.

A Shropshire murderer who was today starting a life sentence for killing a teenager was the ringleader behind a “horrific execution” which involved “grotesque brutality”, prosecutors said.

A Telford man who was the instigator behind a “perfect murder” plot to kill a teenager by dousing him in fuel and setting him on fire could not stop boasting about the killing, a court has heard.

Three killers were given long sentences today for “sadistically” murdering a teenager in a re-enactment of a scene from a spoof horror film.

Murderer Jonathan Clarke was living in Great Yarmouth with his girlfriend Kerri Glover, the mother of his child, when he met Simon Everitt – the 17-year-old student he later killed.

A Telford man was this afternoon found guilty of the horrific murder of student Simon Everitt, who was tied to a tree and set on fire.

A Shropshire man warned his co-accused he would “go the same way” as the man they allegedly murdered if he confided in anyone about the death, a court heard.

A Shropshire man accused of murdering a teenage student by setting him on fire told a court if he had been responsible for the killing it would have been a “bloodbath”.

A group of teenagers fled in horror as an explosion tore through a Shropshire flat.

A crown court jury has visited the site in Norfolk where a teenage student was tied to a tree, doused with petrol and set on fire by three alleged killers, one of them a Shropshire man.

Letter: You continually publish every bit of rubbish Shaun Davies utters. For his information and yours, Tawpa councillors are always on the streets of Dawley.

Murdered teenager Simon Everitt reported an attack by a Shropshire man accused of killing him to police just hours before disappearing, a court heard.