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10,000 Star Twitter followers - and counting

The Shropshire Star has smashed through the 10,000 follower mark on Twitter. But what is the world of tweets, hashtags and trends all about? Internet editor Todd Nash?explains.

Oct 1, 2012

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Shropshire firm offering places on royal portrait

It's not easy to get your face into a royal portrait, but one Shropshire web developer is giving 100,000 internet users the chance to do just that.

Apr 21, 2011

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Between two continents: the best of both worlds

This week we're following the enchanting story of a Shropshire woman's life between two continents. Maureen Davies from Telford moved to Nanyuki in Kenya last year to care for her husband as he recovered from a life-saving operation.

Lights out for dark skies

Light pollution is a topic that's gathering worldwide momentum, and in a quiet corner of Shropshire, one man is joining in to campaign against it and recover our dark skies.

Local firm have grand designs on Midlands

A prominent firm of Shropshire architects have just arrived on Twitter, and have been using the site to tweet about worldwide architectural breakthroughs as well as exciting local projects they're working on.

Film festival flourishes in The Marches

Until a few years ago, our lively capital city was the only place you could catch a really unusual, international or unreleased film from an exciting independent director. That is, until now...

Celebrating Oswestry's literary legends

An Oswestry man is putting Shropshire back on the literary map by staging a week-long festival celebrating his town's most famous former resident, the First World War poet Wilfred Owen.

Guardians of our great forests

From his office in Shrewsbury, Martin Brian Jones, one of the managing directors of the Woodland Stewardship Company, manages a forest in New York State covering 18.5 million acres - larger than all the forest land within the UK.

Jan 23, 2010

Twittering about the best of Shropshire

With so many of the county's businesses and individuals now using Twitter, we wanted to give our followers the chance to tell us about the things that make our county so special. And the result? The 2009 Shropshire Star Twitter Awards!

Twitterers celebrating Winter Solstice

This week we're talking to a Telford twitterer who's been using the social networking site to organise a fundraising event for a local charity.

Young golfer ready to take on Europe

At the tender age of 22, most of us didn't know what day it was, let alone what career path to follow. But at 22, Shropshire twitterer Jonathan Gidney has already turned pro golfer and played in tournaments all over the world.

Putting MD on the foodie map!

For several years, the South of Shropshire has enjoyed a glowing reputation for its fine local produce, while the north of the county has gone relatively unnoticed. But one Market Drayton woman is changing that.

Scooter brand revving up for success

It's always encouraging to hear about local firms defying the gloomy tales of the recession, and this week, we've found a Shropshire firm who is not only beating the odds but have become one of motoring's best-loved scooter brands.

Seasoned swimmer's quest for gold

Madeley-based IT consultant Stevan Eggleton, who tweets from @stevanegg, is one of a surprisingly large number of mature swimmers who are competing at national, European and even world champion level.

Travelling Tim's taste for adventure

It's easy to see that Oswestry twitterer Tim Robbins has a taste for adventure. He spent most of his adult years exploring Mexico, Paraguay, Uraguay, Thailand, Indonesia, Malasia and Tasmania before travelling to Brazil and Slovakia to teach English as a foreign language.

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