Digital content editor for the Shropshire Star and Express & Star. Adopted Salopian. WBA and ROI fan. rob.smith@jpress.co.uk / 01952 241451
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Rob Smith retweeted
16 Nov 2025
Troy Parrott, take your place on the pantheon of Irish greats 🇮🇪
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Rob Smith retweeted
21 Mar 2024
"Respected and Liked By All Who Knew Him" is how this piece was headlined in the newspaper. Never has a sentence been more true. Pete was a great journalist but a greater person. He will be sorely missed. expressandstar.com/news/poli…
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Rob Smith retweeted
20 Mar 2024
RIP to a titan of political journalism.
@ExpressandStar Political Editor Pete Madeley has sadly passed away. Thoughts go to his family at this time.
Pete taught me so much during my time as a news reporter and I’m incredibly grateful. A true professional and brilliant person.
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Rob Smith retweeted
19 Mar 2024
Pete Madeley was a brilliant and highly respected journalist in the @ExpressandStar newsroom.
Also kind, supportive and extremely funny - the best colleague you could ask to work alongside.
So many wonderful memories in and out of the office.
RIP
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Rob Smith retweeted
2 Feb 2024
A brutal rapist who wrecked the lives of his two female victims has been jailed for eight years after going on the run in Europe to escape justice.
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26 Nov 2023
RT @UnaMullally: I've had a lot of people from outside Ireland asking me about what's been going on in Dublin, and also about the growth of…
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Rob Smith retweeted
15 Sep 2023
Staffordshire Police has now said that the dogs are understood to be XL Bullys.
A 30-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of being in charge of dogs dangerously out of control causing injury has been further arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
15 Sep 2023
A man has died after being attacked by two dogs outside a primary school in Stonnall, near Walsall.
A 30-year-old man from the Lichfield area has been arrested on suspicion of having dogs dangerously out of control.
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Rob Smith retweeted
26 Aug 2023
In less than a week we've seen a man dreadfully killed on a street in daylight, to the start of a major investigation, to charges being laid, and court proceedings underway. The team at the Shropshire Star will be following this one all the way.
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Rob Smith retweeted
30 Jul 2023
The Saudis, football and the helplessness of tradition. theguardian.com/football/blo…
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Rob Smith retweeted
15 Jul 2023
Police were called to the scene in Coventry Street shortly before 7pm.
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Rob Smith retweeted
15 Jul 2023
Two teenage members of a violent street gang have been locked up after robbing another youngster at knifepoint in his own bedroom.
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Rob Smith retweeted
6 Jul 2023
Leeds hospital trust apologises after rapper MF Doom Dumile Daniel Thompson died in its care theguardian.com/music/2023/j…
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Rob Smith retweeted
15 Jun 2023
More on the news that Telford MP Lucy Allan will step down at the next election:
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Rob Smith retweeted
31 May 2023
On this eve. "His departure 15 months into the role does not just ring alarm bells, but it removes what feels like the final layer of security during the biggest period of uncertainty and upheaval in the history of this great Football League founder." #wba
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Rob Smith retweeted
6 May 2023
On the day that King Charles III is being crowned, we thought it'd be a good idea to delve into the archive and dig out our front page from the last time The Star covered a coronation.
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Rob Smith retweeted
27 Mar 2023
#Breaking Police searching for missing Telford woman Sebrena Clough say a body has been found. Officers believe it to be the missing woman and her family has been informed.
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Rob Smith retweeted
22 Mar 2023
‘I worry my young patients will die’: UK’s eating disorder services not fit, say GPs theguardian.com/society/2023…
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Rob Smith retweeted
7 Feb 2023
The father of Kaylea Titford has been found guilty of the manslaughter by gross negligence of his obese teenage daughter who was found dead in “squalor” at her Newtown home.
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Rob Smith retweeted
28 Jan 2023
1/ Police have launched a murder investigation after a man died following an attack in Walsall town centre in the early hours of the morning.
Here's what we know so far [THREAD]...
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