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April 1, 2024

Nettle eating, stone skimming, toe wrestling and wife carrying – extreme weird sports are alive and well

Peter Rhodes on chain gangs, a woolly hedgehog and a sea urchin in deepest Oxfordshire

Peter Rhodes|Apr 1

March 30, 2024

Comment: Rail workers fixed a 5,000-tonne landslip in just 21 days - I'm sorry I ever doubted them

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

Mark Andrews|Mar 30

March 29, 2024

Bishops give their Easter messages as they think about what else is to come this year

Peter Rhodes on war in Ukraine, flying taxis and the perils (again) of social media

Peter Rhodes|Mar 29

March 28, 2024

Peter Rhodes on working women, a mysterious pile-up and being upended by a Gladiator

Peter Rhodes|Mar 28

Talking Telford: Could citizens' assemblies give communities more of a voice?

March 27, 2024

Peter Rhodes on fed-up royals, good news from the Appeal Court and an encounter with a mercenary

Peter Rhodes|Mar 27

March 26, 2024

Peter Rhodes on Kate’s trolls, guns on the moon and the strangeness of our language

Homepage|Mar 26

March 25, 2024

Peter Rhodes on Bafta stars, people smugglers and the long, long campaign to get pension justice

Peter Rhodes|Mar 25

March 23, 2024

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

Mark Andrews|Mar 23

March 22, 2024

Peter Rhodes on oratory, garages and things that get rigged in Russia

Peter Rhodes|Mar 22

March 21, 2024

Political heavyweights pay tribute to Star man Pete Madeley

Politics|Mar 21

Peter Rhodes on axing finches, a bun controversy and the folly of cutting corners on defence

Peter Rhodes|Mar 21

Talking Telford: Bad trip on a rail replacement coach makes me sorry I ever complained about trains

March 20, 2024

Peter Rhodes on a shameful law, a cluck of chickens and the green-bin bill

Peter Rhodes|Mar 20

Shropshire nursing chief: Welcoming the public on maternity open days and celebrating neurodiversity

March 19, 2024

Peter Rhodes on bottom banks, WFH engineers and the end of the road for free banking

Peter Rhodes|Mar 19

March 18, 2024

Peter Rhodes on another flood, a gift for the taxman and how today's novelty becomes tomorrow's pest

Peter Rhodes|Mar 18

March 16, 2024

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

Mark Andrews|Mar 16

March 15, 2024

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

Features|Mar 15

Peter Rhodes on preventable vandalism, luxury cars for Russia and our 'dysfunctional' Home Office

Peter Rhodes|Mar 15

March 14, 2024

Why there aren't Shrewsbury to Wellington shuttle trains during landslip repairs - but probably could be

Transport|Mar 14

Peter Rhodes on dodgy snaps, a big breakfast and do gentleman prefer blondes?

Peter Rhodes|Mar 14

Talking Telford: Landslip nightmares knock Telford's transport infrastructure off-track

March 13, 2024

Peter Rhodes on royal titles, unkind satire and getting some good news from the NHS

Peter Rhodes|Mar 13

March 12, 2024

Peter Rhodes on keeping the horse, limitless power and an encounter with two old men

Peter Rhodes|Mar 12

March 11, 2024

Transport chaos strikes Shropshire: A weekend of travel woes for the county

Shrewsbury|Mar 11

Peter Rhodes on a Welsh turkey, a second Birmingham and discovering a much-loved old car

Peter Rhodes|Mar 11

March 9, 2024

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

Mark Andrews|Mar 9

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

March 8, 2024

Are you a middle-lane hogger? Shocking survey on motorway driving – and why you should avoid lurking in the middle lane

Transport|Mar 8

Peter Rhodes on painless dentistry, secret Budgets and 'salting the earth' in Westminster

Peter Rhodes|Mar 8

March 7, 2024

Peter Rhodes on fake Trump, stroppy vicars and the unforgettable smell of a classic car

Peter Rhodes|Mar 7

Talking Telford: Chasing status befitting our modern urban powerhouse of a town

March 6, 2024

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

Peter Rhodes on licences, mishearing things and a big secret that everyone knows

Peter Rhodes|Mar 6

March 5, 2024

Peter Rhodes on obesity, aircraft carriers and a thoroughly satisfying screen villain

Peter Rhodes|Mar 5

March 4, 2024

Leeches and goose fat – a delve into the weird and wonderful history of medicine

Nostalgia|Mar 4

Peter Rhodes on jackpots, generosity and generating images of unlikely people

Peter Rhodes|Mar 4

March 1, 2024

Peter Rhodes on a crooked pub, a massive jackpot and finding homes for colonels and corporals

Peter Rhodes|Mar 1

February 29, 2024

Peter Rhodes on expensive babies, inspirational Gladiators and a postcode lottery for speeding tickets

Peter Rhodes|Feb 29

Talking Telford: Bucks' new American investors strike a sensible tone for the mad world of football

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

Nostalgia|Feb 29

February 28, 2024

Peter Rhodes on vanishing employees, memory bumps and the BBC's tale of two Tory MPs

Peter Rhodes|Feb 28

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

Nostalgia|Feb 28

Money Matters: What the new energy price cap means for you

Cost of living|Feb 28

February 27, 2024

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

Nostalgia|Feb 27

Peter Rhodes on trains, quangos and why the working-class have all the best holidays

Peter Rhodes|Feb 27

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