A Shropshire family fled their home after an electrical box outside the house caught fire.

A 23-year-old woman was injured in a terrifying ordeal in which she was grabbed and shoved to the ground by a man who accosted her on a footpath in Telford.

Former Shropshire paedophile Raymond Hewlett, who is wanted for questioning by detectives working for Madeleine McCann’s parents, is close to death, it was reported today.

A Shropshire woman today told of the debt of gratitude she owes five fellow students who helped save her life after she suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed during an evening class.

Diggers will soon be on a Telford estate to start the next stage of a £1 million plan to revamp the area.

A mother-of-two spoke today of her shock and upset after she woke to find vandals had daubed the windows of her Telford home with a chilling threat and obscene graffiti.

A Shropshire couple who were left scratching their heads after finding an unexplained creepy crawly during a day out have had the mystery solved.

An 81-year-old great-grandmother is tearing up the rule book on ageing by attending aerobics classes three times a week and taking on a two-hour aerobathon.

An investigation was under way today after unleaded fuel pumps at a Shropshire filling station mysteriously began dispensing diesel fuel.

Two children were hailed heroines after keeping their heads and saving the life of their dad when he suffered a seizure and stopped breathing at the family home in Telford.

A pregnant woman was treated for smoke inhalation after a blaze broke out at a Telford home today.

A decision by regeneration chiefs to axe funding to a string of multi-million-pound developments across Shropshire was today greeted with disappointment by project leaders.

Residents from a Telford housing estate staged a “hands around the Dolphin” stunt to mark the closure of their much-loved pub which has played a leading community role for nearly 40 years.

Residents from a Telford housing estate will stage a “hands around the Dolphin” stunt to mark the closure of a much-loved pub.

Tonight: Canoeists plunging off a Shrewsbury bridge have been criticised by police, and the aftermath of a house fire in Woodside, Telford.

A Telford couple dashed out into the street in the early hours today to raise the alarm after they spotted smoke billowing out of a nearby house.

Our weekly round-up of the Shropshire Star’s old pictures for the week ending June 19, 2009.

Final attempts by private detectives searching for Madeleine McCann to interview a former Shropshire paedophile about her disappearance have failed.

A former Shropshire convicted paedophile who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance said he was familiar with the layout of the Portuguese holiday complex where she went missing, it was reported.

A convicted paedophile being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is a former Shropshire man, the Shropshire Star can reveal.

Kate and Gerry McCann were today being briefed by detectives investigating a former Shropshire man as part of the hunt for their missing daughter Madeleine.

Kirsty Smallman talks to a former criminal who is making a fresh start

A Shropshire man today revealed how he has turned his life around after beating a £400-a-day heroin addiction which led to him burgling dozens of homes across the county.