Charles Viner really is oldest swinger in town Britains oldest golfer Charles Viner, for whom the Shropshire Golf Centre held a 100th birthday lunch, has never departed from what he learned in his first golf lesson in 1925, writes Lewine Mair.

Amanda Harlech: a charmed life She has brains, beauty, a rambling Shropshire farmhouse - oh, and a grace-and-favour suite at the Ritz in Paris. And yet, says Justine Picardie, its hard to hate Amanda Harlech, now a budding novelist as well as a fashion empress.

Chip shop deaths man charged A man is charged with the murder of two men found dead above a chip shop in Shropshire.