Thousands of people have viewed internet videos promoting Shropshire towns’ bids for a share of £1 million from a high street rescue programme fronted by retail guru Mary Portas.

The Queen has been touring the North West of England as part of her Diamond Jublilee celebrations, where she went to Chester Zoo and enjoyed a Yellow Duckmarine ride in Liverpool.

Creative media students at TCAT have made a video promoting the borough’s high streets.

London Aquarium is now allowing people to put on a snorkel, don a wetsuit and get into a tank full of sharks.

Snooker great John Parrott was in Shropshire to open the second green at Wrockwardine Wood Bowls Club.

A lunchtime concert has raised hundreds of pounds for a major restoration project in Shrewsbury.

Catch up with all of the goals from a dramatic last weekend in the Premier League where Man City left it late to snatch the title from the rivals and Bolton slipped to relegation with a draw at Stoke.

An 11-year-old boy realised his dream yesterday as he reached the top of The Wrekin. Ellis Thompson, of Hadley, Telford, who was born with a serious heart defect, was said to have loved the experience.

Watch Carl Jones’s film review of Dark Shadows, Tim Burton’s new film starring Johnny Depp and Eva Green that goes for the obvious gag a little too often.

Shropshire’s Zoe Cooper and Aquabatique have dramatically booked their place in tomorrow’s Britain’s Got Talent Final and are now just one step away from being crowned winners of the ITV1 talent show.

It started as a childhood fancy nearly 60 years ago. Now it has developed into a full-blown love affair. Margaret Badham is simply mad about tractors.

How will Wolves fans react to the appointment of unknown Norwegian Stale Solbakken as their new manager? Our sister paper Express & Star took to the streets of Wolverhampton to find out.