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Here are some of the stories on the Shropshire Star website today:

Seren Griffiths uses a walk along a sandstone ridge in northern Cheshire to explore the way a landscape can hold multiple histories, and in doing so make it easier for us to contemplate distant futures.

The landscape in question is bordered on the north by the M56 motorway. Commuters making their way into Manchester see it to their right for all of about a minute. But up on the ridge you can see that it stretches south towards Whitchurch in Shropshire. Seren starts her journey in a quarry used variously by the Romans, Iron Age settlers and latterly the Victorians. She makes her way up to one of the string of hill top forts that can be found along the sandstone escarpment, and then moves along to an old Cold War listening station, and not far away, the Frodsham Anti-Aircraft Operations Room. And all the while the vista shows the canal work of the industrial revolution, the chemical plants of the 20th century and the wind turbines of the last decade. The ancient landscape hums with history and archaeology that bring its past into focus in the present.

For Seren, and many before her, this is a magical, mysterious place which draws out timelines like a strand, with artefacts from the past projecting forwards, enduring into the present.

Producer: Tom Alban

Santander is going to close five of its branches around the West Midlands by the end of August.

They're among 111 to go around the country, with the bank saying it's because fewer people are visiting them.

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Santander said the 840 staff affected will be found other jobs.

These are the affected sites and their expected closure dates:

• Dudley Merryhill - 24 June
• Newcastle-under-Lyme - 15 July
• Halesowen - 22 July
• Birmingham Erdington - 29 July
• Harborne High Street - 5 August

William Billingham was jailed in 2018 for murdering his eight-year-old daughter in a "revenge" attack.

Infection control, evacuation procedures and medicine handling all caused concern in reports.

With young people under pressure for jobs, research shows career choices are shaped at a young age.

Worcestershire sign Nepal leg-spinner Sandeep Lamichhane for this season's T20 Blast.

We might get a few showers first thing this morning, but the rest of the day should be dry with some sunshine and a light breeze.

Temperatures are forecast to rise to about 12C (54F) and we should have a dry night.

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Detectives say the woman was assaulted hours earlier and the case has been referred to the police watchdog.

A Herefordshire vet has set off on a 3000-mile (4,828 km) row across the Atlantic.

Simon Lyddon, 44, who runs Vine Tree Vets in Ross-on-Wye, will spend more than five weeks among a team of 12 completing the challenge from the Canary Isles to Antigua to raise money for charity.

He took on the challenge after losing his dad, Peter, to prostate cancer before learning his wife, Mel, had breast cancer.

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Mrs Lyddon was treated at the Macmillan Renton Unit at Hereford County Hospital and Mr Lyddon is undertaking the challenge to raise funds for Macmillan.

The crew set off from Las Galletas marina on Monday.

“I look forward to sharing our journey with everyone but most of all I’ll be looking forward to a nice rum punch in Falmouth harbour in Antigua,” Mr Lyddon added.

Jurors hear cannabis farmer Brian Waters was beaten, bound and held upside down in a four-hour attack.

Lilly Hanrahan, 21 months, suffered a "catastrophic" brain injury at the hands of Sean Sadler.

The teenager was taken to hospital and died shortly after arrival, West Midlands Police says.

Twenty six people died when the IRA blew up pubs in Birmingham and Guildford more than 45 years ago.

Azam Mangori, 24, says he did not sleep for four days after Lorraine Cox died in his flat.

A ����ý investigation into one suspect discovers he may also have worked for British secret services.

Here are three stories from the Shropshire Star today:

• Burglar who stole is jailed
• Shifnal roads project
• 85-year-old attacked at Shrewsbury cashpoint

A consultant says Simon Foley had one of the "most horrific critical illnesses" he has seen.

The moped the teenager was on is believed to have been involved in a collision with a car.

Royle Family actor Ricky Tomlinson, who was jailed for his union activism, says he has no regrets.