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Senior news writer for the Shropshire Star specialising in in-depth features and commentary, investigative reporting and political matters.

April 20, 2024

Mark Andrews: Katie struggles with inflation, Rishi's smoking legacy, and why super-head is wrong to stop children from praying

Mark Andrews|Apr 20, 2024

April 13, 2024

Mark Andrews: A life needlessly lost, the return of Watney's Red Barrel, and why nationalisation of water companies won't make our rivers cleaner

Mark Andrews|Apr 13, 2024

April 7, 2024

Mark Andrews – breaking up is never easy, but it's time for change

Mark Andrews|Apr 7, 2024

April 6, 2024

Mark Andrews – Kicking up a stink, a tale of two MPs, and the great Jordan v Peter debate

Mark Andrews|Apr 6, 2024

March 30, 2024

Mark Andrews: Tips for travelling England fans, flattening towns, and don't drink the water

Mark Andrews|Mar 30, 2024

March 26, 2024

Defence minister to visit Battle Back Centre

Newport|Mar 26, 2024

March 25, 2024

It's news, but not as we know it says Dead Donkey creator Andy Hamilton amid stage adaptation

Theatre & Comedy|Mar 25, 2024

March 23, 2024

Mark Andrews: 'Playful' England kit, emperor's new clothes, and spare us a Penny

Mark Andrews|Mar 23, 2024

Paloma, Rick and Faithless top the bills as Bestival daily schedules announced

Features|Mar 23, 2024

March 21, 2024

Teenager jailed for life for murder of former Telford man on first night of his holiday

Crime|Mar 21, 2024

Political heavyweights pay tribute to Star man Pete Madeley

Politics|Mar 21, 2024

March 20, 2024

History of the Wrekin's mast: A special television transmitter that caused a furore

Telford nostalgia|Mar 20, 2024

March 16, 2024

Mark Andrews: Never mind Netflix, North Korean TV is on the way

Mark Andrews|Mar 16, 2024

March 15, 2024

Shropshire Hills towns make prestigious 'best places to live' guide

Features|Mar 15, 2024

March 9, 2024

Mark Andrews – Why Cliff Richard is the answer to Generation Smartphone

Mark Andrews|Mar 9, 2024

Mark Andrews: Making the Proms more inclusive, cuddly, progressive tsars, and stupidity of 'equal pay' which is nothing of the sort

Mark Andrews|Mar 9, 2024

March 7, 2024

Reporter Sue Austin bows out after 44 years meeting 'ordinary Shropshire people doing extraordinary things'

Features|Mar 7, 2024

Things aren't looking rosy for the Tories, says Ann Widdecombe on visit to Walsall allotments

Politics|Mar 7, 2024

March 6, 2024

Mark Andrews on today's Budget: Sombre preamble as Chancellor begins his farewell tour

Politics|Mar 6, 2024

February 29, 2024

Bestival organisers produce book on holding a festival at home

Music|Feb 29, 2024

The miners' strike 40 years on: The day relations between the police and miners changed forever

Nostalgia|Feb 29, 2024

February 28, 2024

Miners' strike 40 years on: A tale of two coalminers

Nostalgia|Feb 28, 2024

February 27, 2024

Miners' strike 40 years on: Battle lines drawn as dispute spreads to the Midlands

Nostalgia|Feb 27, 2024

Patrick Cormack, a politician who stood by his principles

Politics|Feb 27, 2024

February 26, 2024

Miners' strike 40 years on: Battle in Brum sowed the seeds of what was to come

Features|Feb 26, 2024

February 24, 2024

Co-operation likely to be crucial in making newly funded transport schemes work

Transport|Feb 24, 2024

Mark Andrews: While civilisation burns, our leaders argue about the name of an imaginary ceasefire

Mark Andrews|Feb 24, 2024

February 23, 2024

Italian tenor in Mario Lanza tribute concert

Telford|Feb 23, 2024

'Unfailing effort and devotion': Tributes to founder of transport museum, who has died at 76

Nostalgia|Feb 23, 2024

February 22, 2024

Two Shropshire bookshops in running for prestigious award

Church Stretton|Feb 22, 2024

Weekend trains cancelled while tracks are replaced

Shrewsbury|Feb 22, 2024

February 21, 2024

Scrapped: Direct Shrewsbury-to-London rail service is to end

Transport|Feb 21, 2024

Best Kept Village competition to be held in county for first time

North Shropshire|Feb 21, 2024

February 20, 2024

Rail company defends menopause gift bags after union uproar

Transport|Feb 20, 2024

February 17, 2024

Mark Andrews: Trump gets something right, deepfake Biden, and Rishi stops the boats, TikTok style

Mark Andrews|Feb 17, 2024

February 11, 2024

It's a game of two halves as details of classic Wolves picture goes to VAR

Wolves|Feb 11, 2024

February 10, 2024

Mark Andrews: Rolling your eyes is not an act of aggression, it's one of humanity

Weekend|Feb 10, 2024

Mark Andrews – roll up for the Liz Truss comeback tour, Mr Bean rides again, and why trees are now part of our colonial legacy

Mark Andrews|Feb 10, 2024

February 7, 2024

Local government in Shropshire to get £5.1m boost - but leader says it won't cover rising costs

Politics|Feb 7, 2024

Could the next Top Gear come from the Black Country? Stars say new TV car show will be bostin'

Features|Feb 7, 2024

February 3, 2024

Mark Andrews: Ray of sunshine at the BBC, crowd trouble at the derby, and why 5G isn't worth turning Britain into the set of Blake's 7

Mark Andrews|Feb 3, 2024

February 2, 2024

Queen Elizabeth's custom-made Range Rover - built in West Midlands - is up for sale

Motors|Feb 2, 2024

MP raises Shropshire council funding in Commons

Telford|Feb 2, 2024

Special needs pupils travelling too far to school, says Shropshire MP

Telford|Feb 2, 2024

January 31, 2024

Bestival: Paloma Faith, The Darkness, Rick Astley and Faithless among star acts at 2024 festival

Entertainment|Jan 31, 2024

Avanti West Coast apologises for cancelled trains after less than half ran on time over Christmas

Transport|Jan 31, 2024

January 27, 2024

How a joke with a taxi driver set a journalist on a 13-year quest for Post Office justice

In-depth|Jan 27, 2024

Mark Andrews: I'm ready for battle, just not sure about the aliens

Mark Andrews|Jan 27, 2024

January 25, 2024

Group fighting to protect two historic cottages built by the Duke of Sutherland meet with Shropshire MP

Donnington|Jan 25, 2024

January 23, 2024

County NHS reveals £130 million hole in finances

Telford|Jan 23, 2024

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