Blog: So Cheryl Cole is the first judge to be booted off the US X-Factor panel. Maybe she now knows how Treyc Cohen felt all those months back when she failed to back her own act.

Rating ***: Tracey O’Sullivan went to Wem for her birthday and had a less than happy return.

“Pushy, that’s the word for it, pushy.” We can but hope Great Aunty Alice has an invite to the party of the year on April 29 because she of the pink woolly hat is a absolute hoot. And actually has the distinct knack of hitting the nail on the head.

Women’s Editor Tracey O’Sullivan reports on her trip to Uganda, where she saw how Shropshire charity cash is helping some of the world’s most needy families through unimaginable hardship.

An unforgettable trip – a chance to experience what is happening now in Uganda, a country trying its best to recover from the heartache of 20 years of brutal conflict with the help of generous folk from Shropshire.

Blog: Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and even Paris Hilton. There have been some spectacular Hollywood meltdowns but there is something even more sinister about Charlie Sheen’s apparent descent into madness.

We have a running joke in our house that one carrier bag of shopping at Waitrose will cost us £50 while at Asda it would probably see us part with half as much cash.

The only thing bigger than the dresses on my Big Fat Gypsy Wedding have been the rating figures. The programme has been the surprise hit of the year attracting millions of fans and the kind of programme I am normally glued to week after week.

Blog: I remember well my first childcare bill and it came with a sharp intake of breath. Yes it was a shock how much that monthly cost was going to add to our outgoings each month. And we had only one child at nursery and only three days a week at that time.

Forget killer heels – stilettos are the new keep-fit accessory, with women being urged to walk tall for fabulous legs. New research has revealed that the shoes provide a great way to a perfect set of pins.

Blog: Selling DNA tests over the counter at Boots. We could ask what have we come to?

Telly Talk: Gripping, fascinating, emotional, funny and the simplest concept to have hit the small screen since the test card. Stand up the television executive who devised One Born Every Minute and take a bow, orders Tracey O’Sullivan.

Blog: Some mornings my son is so beautifully adorable that I feel the worst pang of green-eyed monster and I hate the “other woman” in our lives. Or actually I should make that the “other women”.

Tinseltown’s leading ladies set the bar high for Oscars night as they unleashed a wave of covetable trends and gorgeous gowns to officially launch the awards season in opulent style.

“Does my bump look big in this?” There was a time when a mother-to-be would be hoping the answer to that question would be a resounding yes.

Advice from the Shropshire Institute of Advanced Drivers for those venturing out on icy mornings

Telly Talk: Well, if that was her cleavage covered up, how would it have been if Holly Willoughby had been showing off her ample decolletage? writes Tracey O’Sullivan.

Carl Jones and Tracey O’Sullivan welcome in 2011 with the first podcast of the new year. Under discussion this week: the rise in VAT to 20 per cent, the icy weather and its effect on Shropshire’s drivers, the pressure the big supermarkets are putting on our towns and villages and the high cost of a [...]

Telly Talk: What a wasted opportunity and a grievous error in judgement from EastEnders bosses. I said earlier that this week the soap had gone too far with the current babyswap storyline but that they could salvage something from this farce if they went on to deal with such a heartbreaking scenario with sensitivity and [...]

Telly Talk: It was the controversial New Year storyline which saw soap fans plead with EastEnders bosses to drop it as Ronnie Branning found her newborn son James dead in his cot.

Blog: At the time I felt like I was the only one seething at Wayne Rooney retaining his place in the England team when he was exposed as a cheat and a liar in the summer.

What are we going to do now? wails Tracey O’Sullivan. In fact, when does Britain’s Got Talent start now that 2010’s reality television has come to an end with the finals for Strictly Come Dancing and The Apprentice.

Gone but not forgotten. I mean who could forget Stuart “The Brand” Baggs writes Tracey O’Sullivan.

Telly Talk: Simon Cowell may have saved his last words for the fans as the latest series of X-Factor bowed out with Matt Cardle crowned the winner but it’s unlikely the viewers will remember it all that fondly, writes Tracey O’Sullivan.

In suitably dramatic style Coronation Street celebrated 50 fabulous years with a birth, marriage and death as the cast of the popular soap delivered a near-perfect performance in this week’s much anticipated live episode, writes Tracey O’Sullivan.

Winners or losers this weekend’s reality television was packed with women who have given the fairer sex something to feel great about this morning, writes Tracey O’Sullivan.

This week I have to say a very big thank you to the male shop assistants in the county who have proved an absolute treasure trove of information when it comes to buying those things you never normally buy for yourself writes Tracey O’Sullivan.

It was a masterclass in how not to negotiate but Laura Moore’s £200 bid for a truffle worth at the most £80 was not the big story from last night’s The Apprentice – it was Liz Locke and that killer stare, blogs Tracey O’Sullivan.

Is the X Factor farce really over or has it only just begun, asks Tracey O’Sullivan.

X-Factor finalist Treyc Cohen believes it would be “hilarious” if Wagner won the singing competition.