Shropshire Star

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The Shropshire Star is a regional newspaper covering the whole of Shropshire, plus parts of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Cheshire, the Llangollen area and northern Powys in the United Kingdom. The editor is Sarah Jane Smith.

The paper has been in circulation since Monday, October 5, 1964 inheriting a nightly circulation of around 19,000 from the old Shropshire edition of the Express & Star.

Its editorial headquarters are in Telford where it is also printed.

There are eight editions of the paper, which are published daily Monday to Saturday.

The headquarters also print the weekly series, a further seven paid-for and four free distribution publications, of which the Shrewsbury Chronicle is one of them. The Shropshire Magazine is also based in the same offices and produced monthly.

The Shropshire Star are owned by the Midland News Association which also owns the Express and Star newspaper.

The readers have a particularly close affiliation with the newspaper. Within the circulation area, the [[[Shropshire Star]]] has an average issue readership of 223,000 adults.

Contact details for each department can be found on the Shropshire Star website at [1]