Shropshire Star app user Sue keeping up with the news
Sue Wood has been a Shropshire Star reader since the first copy was printed 50 years ago.
But after she injured her arm she feared her days of reading the newspaper could be numbered.
Now, thanks to the Shropshire Star app, Sue is enjoying keeping up with local news more than ever.
And she says that as well as being able to read one-handed, there are also many other benefits.
Mrs Wood, from Heath Farm, Shrewsbury, said her parents had the paper from the first week and she has been reading it ever since.
She has also featured in the paper, both in the sports and in the news pages – although perhaps not as often as her husband, Shrewsbury town crier Martin Wood.
But four years ago Sue had an accident which meant she could no longer use her right hand.
"I can't hold the Shropshire Star with one hand and the only way I could read it was to spread it out on the table," she said.
"We then decided that we would install the app on my computer tablet and since then it has been brilliant.
"I open the app and using the tab, go to the section where you can see the entire Shropshire Star, each page, on one screen.
"I can see the entire paper at a glance."
"Then I can decide which page to read first and I go from there.
"It is so easy. The app is so easy to navigate."
She said one of the main benefits of the app was being able to take it wherever she wanted.
"I can read the Shropshire Star on holiday. Its brilliant keeping up with local news wherever I am. Martin looks at the headlines on the Shropshire Star website and very often asks me if he can borrow my tablet to read the whole article."
Mrs Wood, who has two grown up sons who live away, said they too enjoyed keeping up with the news on the Star website.
"When they come home they will often look at the app."
"We don't get covered in ink any more – and of course it's good for the environment."
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