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'Lucky to be alive': Shrewsbury family's home hit by lightning - with video

'Lucky to be alive': Shrewsbury family's home hit by lightning - with video

A Shrewsbury mother and her two children say they are thankful to be alive after their home was wrecked by a lightning strike.

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Shropshire couple's baby born by emergency caesarean following crash on way to hospital

Shropshire couple's baby born by emergency caesarean following crash on way to hospital

Telford | Last updated: Less than an hour ago

Plans unveiled for new Telford medical centre scheme - set to cater for thousands

Plans unveiled for new Telford medical centre scheme - set to cater for thousands

Telford | Last updated: 5 hours ago

GP ‘super practice’ will not happen despite Shrewsbury surgery closure

GP ‘super practice’ will not happen despite Shrewsbury surgery closure

Shrewsbury | Last updated: 3 hours ago

Bypass action group relaunched after latest crash near Oswestry

Bypass action group relaunched after latest crash near Oswestry

Oswestry | Last updated: 5 hours ago

Man, 77, dies in crash near Welshpool

Man, 77, dies in crash near Welshpool

Welshpool | Last updated: 3 hours ago

More than 33,000 missed appointments in a year at Shropshire NHS trust

More than 33,000 missed appointments in a year at Shropshire NHS trust

Health | Last updated: 3 hours ago

State of the Nation: View on street is big thumbs down, with lively debate online

State of the Nation: View on street is big thumbs down, with lively debate online

Bridgnorth | Last updated: 2 hours ago

Market Drayton biker sent off in style with coffin carried in modified sidecar and 30-bike ride-out

Market Drayton biker sent off in style with coffin carried in modified sidecar and 30-bike ride-out

Market Drayton | Last updated: 5 hours ago

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Shrewsbury v Accrington preview: Now Stanley are known to all as difficult hosts

Shrewsbury v Accrington preview: Now Stanley are known to all as difficult hosts

Accrington Stanley used to be known for milk – now they are renowned as a difficult place to get a result in League One.

Shrewsbury Town FC | Last updated: Less than an hour ago

Next Game Tue 20 Aug 2019 vs Accrington Stanley

Next Game Sat 24 Aug 2019 vs Southport

Next Game Sun 25 Aug 2019 vs Burnley

Shrewsbury boss Sam Ricketts not concerned by striker search

Shrewsbury boss Sam Ricketts not concerned by striker search

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Attitude will be key for Shrewsbury, insists Sam Ricketts

Attitude will be key for Shrewsbury, insists Sam Ricketts

Shrewsbury Town FC | Last updated: 5 hours ago

Shrewsbury verdict: Solid at the back but Town struggle up top

Shrewsbury verdict: Solid at the back but Town struggle up top

Shrewsbury Town FC | Last updated: Aug 19, 2019

Sam Ricketts eyes up Shrewsbury striker deal to help in '50-50 games'

Sam Ricketts eyes up Shrewsbury striker deal to help in '50-50 games'

Shrewsbury Town FC | Last updated: Aug 19, 2019

No excuses from AFC Telford boss Gavin Cowan

No excuses from AFC Telford boss Gavin Cowan

AFC Telford United | Last updated: Aug 19, 2019

Ryan Bennett says Wolves will keep it tight at the back

Ryan Bennett says Wolves will keep it tight at the back

Wolves | Last updated: Aug 19, 2019

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Shrewsbury Town FC

Shrewsbury v Accrington preview: Now Stanley are known to all as difficult hosts

Shrewsbury v Accrington preview: Now Stanley are known to all as difficult hosts

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Shrewsbury boss Sam Ricketts not concerned by striker search

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Attitude will be key for Shrewsbury, insists Sam Ricketts

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AFC Telford United

No excuses from AFC Telford boss Gavin Cowan

No excuses from AFC Telford boss Gavin Cowan

AFC Telford United | Last updated: Aug 19, 2019

AFC Telford 1 King’s Lynn Town 3 - Report and pictures

AFC Telford United | Last updated: Aug 18, 2019

Brendon Daniels should be back in AFC Telford action soon

AFC Telford United | Last updated: Aug 17, 2019

Wolves

Manchester United ‘disgusted’ as Paul Pogba is racially abused online

Manchester United ‘disgusted’ as Paul Pogba is racially abused online

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Ryan Bennett says Wolves will keep it tight at the back

Wolves | Last updated: Aug 19, 2019

Wolves star Diogo Jota: Seventh again will be tough

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'Lucky to be alive': Shrewsbury family's home hit by lightning - with video

'Lucky to be alive': Shrewsbury family's home hit by lightning - with video

Shrewsbury | Last updated: Less than an hour ago

WATCH: 'Sickening' burglars trash three Telford charity shops in one night

WATCH: 'Sickening' burglars trash three Telford charity shops in one night

Telford | Last updated: Aug 17, 2019

Lions, tigers and painted dogs: Life in charge of the carnivores at West Midland Safari Park

Lions, tigers and painted dogs: Life in charge of the carnivores at West Midland Safari Park

Attractions | Last updated: Aug 17, 2019

WATCH: Groom travels by tank to Shropshire wedding

WATCH: Groom travels by tank to Shropshire wedding

Shrewsbury | Last updated: Aug 12, 2019

Entertainment

Broccoli, Brexit and the art of good gags

Italian tenor to perform at Newport's Last Night of the Summer Proms

Steam spectacular at Blists Hill

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Business

Shropshire entrepreneur gets on his bike to offer solution to congested cities

Shropshire entrepreneur gets on his bike to offer solution to congested cities

Business | Last updated: 5 hours ago

Apprenticeships are now a real alternative to university – report reveals

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Village near Shrewsbury could be left without a post office

Minsterley | Last updated: 5 hours ago

Education

Pop-up shop helps kit out dozens of pupils in Telford

Pop-up shop helps kit out dozens of pupils in Telford

Telford | Last updated: Aug 19, 2019

University welcomes visitor from down under

Shrewsbury | Last updated: Aug 19, 2019

Piccalilli tops the polls at Concord College

Shrewsbury | Last updated: Aug 17, 2019

Property

Shrewsbury parish residents urged to have say on housing needs

Shrewsbury parish residents urged to have say on housing needs

Pontesbury | Last updated: 5 hours ago

Council building to be turned into into extra care accommodation

Welshpool | Last updated: Aug 17, 2019

Bridgnorth guesthouse and restaurant up for sale at £1.5m

Bridgnorth | Last updated: Aug 15, 2019

Motors

Nearly £700m worth of uninsured cars saved from scrapheap in 10 years

Nearly £700m worth of uninsured cars saved from scrapheap in 10 years

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Aston Martin teases upcoming DBX in new video

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JCB puts its first all-electric excavator into production

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Peter Rhodes on the message of Easy Rider, the killing of a cop - and who was it who got the trains running on time?

Peter Rhodes on the message of Easy Rider, the killing of a cop - and who was it who got the trains running on time?

Peter Rhodes | Last updated: 5 hours ago

A plague on all your houses, people tell politicians

Bridgnorth | Last updated: 5 hours ago

Shropshire Star comment: Vaccines too vital to be ignored

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Shropshire Star comment: Only way is up for UK politics

Opinions | Last updated: Aug 19, 2019

Peter Rhodes on the Brexit news you didn't see, beef off the menu and some colourful news horrifying the French

Peter Rhodes | Last updated: Aug 19, 2019

Dr Mary McCarthy: GP shortage negatively impacting patient care

Dr Mary McCarthy | Last updated: Aug 19, 2019

Readers' letters

Whole of the country should unite as one

Whole of the country should unite as one

Readers' letters | Last updated: 2 hours ago

Tired of being told that I voted wrong

Readers' letters | Last updated: Aug 19, 2019

The day of reckoning will soon be upon us

Readers' letters | Last updated: Aug 16, 2019

Prophecies need to be more specific before they become valid

Readers' letters | Last updated: Aug 15, 2019

Let's embrace change but keep our language clean too

Readers' letters | Last updated: Aug 14, 2019

High price of a no-deal Brexit

Readers' letters | Last updated: Aug 13, 2019

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Star Witness: Send us your 2019 school prom photos!

Star Witness: Send us your 2019 school prom photos!

Star Witness | Last updated: Jul 4, 2019

Star Witness: Pretty, but is it a pollen bomb?

Star Witness: Pretty, but is it a pollen bomb?

Star Witness | Last updated: Apr 20, 2019

Star Witness: Still waters as spring returns

Star Witness: Still waters as spring returns

Telford | Last updated: Apr 13, 2019

Share your snapshots of Shropshire life

Share your snapshots of Shropshire life

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