Updates on Friday 4 March 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates to resume at 08:00 on Monday
Andy Giddings
BBC Local Live
Dave Gittus from Newport took this photo of fly tipping (looks like a sofa) which he spotted near Tong.
Image source, Dave GittusIf you have photos of fly tipping (or anything else) you can send them by email or share them through Facebook, external or Twitter, external.
Council tax will rise by 3.2%, external after Telford & Wrekin Council gave the final stamp of approval to its budget.
Image source, Shropshire StarThe MP for Shrewsbury, who sits on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, says it will produce a report next month which will set out fairly the advantages and disadvantages of remaining in the EU.
Daniel Kawczynski says he will vote to leave in June's referendum, but he urged people to read all the facts before making a decision.
Mr Kawczynski said it would be an easy-to-read document and offered to post it out to anyone who wants a copy - just contact his Shrewsbury office, external.
Quote MessageWe've spent the last six months interviewing senior lawyers, academics, industrialists to get their perspective. And we've interviewed many people who have been involved with trading and negotiating with the European Union."
Daniel Kawczynski, MP for Shrewsbury
The MP for Shrewsbury has been speaking on BBC Radio Shropshire this morning and said finding extra funding for Shropshire Council is at the top of his list of six priorities.
The authority recently got an extra £8.5m from the government, but the leader of the council has said he wants more.
Mr Kawczynski said negotiations would continue and he warned that day-to-day services could be under threat.
Quote MessageWe have supported the trimming back of finance to councils when we thought there was a little bit of fat of the bone and then we supported it when we thought there was excess meat on the bone. What I've said to the prime minister is that we are now starting to gnaw at the bone itself."
Daniel Kawczynski, MP for Shrewsbury
Andy Giddings
BBC Local Live
Here's another look at BBC Shropshire's top stories:
- Warning to drivers after Shropshire bin man injured
- Councillors vote for Telford tax increase
- Big Alpaca show in Telford this weekend
Andy Giddings
BBC Local Live
Harry Maceachen's grandmother has told us she'll be paying him a visit in hospital later and taking his brother Sam in with her.
Alison Price was speaking on BBC Radio Shropshire this morning and said that she'd been told his liver transplant had gone according to plan.
Image source, Clare MaceachenQuote MessageThe whole family has pulled together and they have a wonderful lot of friends... it's brilliant, the support they've had."
Alison Price, Harry's grandmother
Ian Perry
BBC Radio Shropshire
The company which collects the bins in Shropshire, Veolia, has put an advert in the local papers, urging drivers to watch out for their bin men.
The company says more and more residents were verbally abusing their staff and driving dangerously around the trucks.
Earlier this week, a bin man broke a bone after being hit by a vehicle.
Image source, Veolia
Alexandra Hamilton
BBC Weather
Looking at the forecast for the rest of the day, all you can see is little black clouds with blue rain-drops beneath them.
Genevieve Tudor
Journalist, BBC Shropshire
The International Centre in Telford will be playing host to about 400 Alpacas this weekend.
The British Alpaca Society's national show will be taking place, with proceeds from the gate going to the Severn Hospice.
Local Alpaca farmer and breeder Shaun Martin from Cherrington gave his tips on preparing for the big day.
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
Work has finally finished on a new roof at Attingham Park, as part of a £1.4m restoration project.
Architect John Nash's picture gallery at the Grade I listed house has leaked ever since it was built, owners the National Trust said.
Image source, National Trust/Richard Knisely-MarpoleA conservation project has seen a roof, made from steel and glass built over the 1807 original, made to protect it.
The gallery will now open to visitors at the weekend.
BBC Midlands Today
Four-year-old Harry Maceachen from Shrewsbury is recovering in hospital today after Wednesday's liver transplant operation.
And a consultant at the Birmingham Children's Hospital, Dr Darius Mirza told the BBC "he'll take a while to get back to his normal bubbly self".
He explained that the operation had been a complicated one, but they made an important discovery.
He is the firebrand veteran Labour backbencher, external who became the surprise Leader of the opposition after sweeping the party’s leadership contest by a landslide.
Image source, Shropshire StarTracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
Tests are continuing on the goalposts at Shrewsbury Rugby Club, after one of them crashed to the ground, hitting a spectator on the head.
The man who'd been watching his son play for Oswestry Rugby Club, was taken to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital with head injuries. He's now been discharged.
No matches or fixtures will be played until the club is satisfied the remaining goalposts are safe.
Andy Giddings
BBC Local Live
These are our top stories this morning:
- Telford council tax rising by 3.2%
- Investigations continue after woman's body found at Shrewsbury Hotel
- Liver operation for four-year-old Shrewsbury boy goes "according to plan"
The grandmother of four-year-old Harry Maceachen says the news from hospital is that his liver transplant operation has gone according to plan and that the consultants are "very happy with his progress".
Image source, Clare MaceachenAlison Price told BBC Radio Shropshire it has been a "very very difficult 12 months" for the family, since his condition started to deteriorate - he was born with a rare liver disease.
She is a former theatre sister at Oswestry's orthopaedic hospital and says it's always worse seeing children undergo operations. Ms Price also says she shares a special bond with Harry because they share a birthday.
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
Thanks to Faye Shieber from Dawley for this great picture of frost on her windscreen this morning.
If you have any good pictures of the frosty weather across Shropshire today. I'd love to hear from you. You can email, tweet, external or get in touch via Facebook, external.
Image source, Faye ShieberInvestigations are continuing today following the discovery of a woman's body in Shrewsbury.
The body of a woman, thought to be in her 30s, was found in the Shrewsbury Hotel near the Welsh Bridge in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Image source, GooglePolice are treating the death as unexplained.
A stretch of the major A49 in Shropshire will be closed overnight tonight., external
Image source, Shropshire Star
Joanne Gallacher
Political reporter, BBC Shropshire
Council tax is set to rise in Telford and Wrekin by 3.2%, an extra 55p a week for the average Band B property in the borough.
The local authority set its budget for the next financial year last night, after months of meeting with local people to get their ideas on how it can save money, while protecting services.
Image source, GoogleThe opposition Tory groups alternative budget was defeated.
BBC Breakfast
A Shropshire dad and his four-year-old son are both on the road to recovery, after a complicated liver transplant yesterday.
Harry Maceachen from Shrewsbury was born with a rare liver disease. He needed a transplant on his first birthday and now needed another.
His father Simon has become a living donor, as no suitable match was found on the organ donor register.
