Get your home set for winter
Winters may not be as harsh as they used to be but this week’s Shropshire Star includes a supplement on preparing your home for the season ahead. Find out more in our podcast.
County’s Flake girl dies of cancer
In the 1980s, she was one of the best known faces in Britain as the star of the iconic Cadbury’s Flake television … [visit site to read more]
Daggers drawn as Town trophy test
Shrewsbury Town were today handed the first home tie of their Johnstone’s Paint Trophy campaign - … [visit site to read more]
Morgan forgets double cup woe
Manager Tomi Morgan admits there’s not time for doom and gloom after Technogroup Welshpool bowed out of their second cup competition in the space of just a … [visit site to read more]
On your marks for fell-runners
Fell-runners from around the country will be gathering at the Breidden Hills between Shrewsbury and Welshpool tomorrow for the start of the Shropshire winter hill race series.
The Breidden Hills Race takes competitors on a gruelling seven-mile route involving 2,300ft of climbing on the … [visit site to read more]
Town fear Thornton exit
Shrewsbury Town may have to let impressive loan midfielder Sean Thornton return to Leyton Orient because of financial constraints.
Thornton’s initial month … [visit site to read more]
UK banks 'to ask for up to £40bn'
Four major banks will ask for up to £40bn of taxpayers' money to boost their balance sheets, the BBC learns.
PM says banking crisis will ease
Gordon Brown says he believes confidence in the banking system will be restored by global action "in the next few days".
BA flight makes emergency landing
A BA jet bound for Delhi from Heathrow, with 222 passengers on board, lands near Berlin after an electrical fault develops.
Peers 'to dump anti-terror plan'
Government plans to increase the terror detention limit to 42 days will be defeated in the Lords, David Davis says.
Forces honour small town's effort
Members of the armed forces will parade through a Wiltshire town to thank residents for paying tribute to dead service personnel.