Summary

  • Updates on Monday 13 June 2016

  • News, sport, travel and weather updates to resume at 08:00 on Tuesday

Live Reporting

Andy Giddings

  1. Football: 'We under-performed last season' says Junior Brown

    BBC Sport

    Shrewsbury's Junior Brown believes the new players recruited by manager Micky Mellon will help the club to aim for a higher position in League One next season. 

    Town flirted with relegation in their last campaign but managed to avoid the drop.

    Junior BrownGetty Images

    Junior Brown says the new recruits will add plenty of strength. 

    I think we're building well andI think we'll work hard over pre-season and we'll aim to finish a lot higher."

    Junior Brown, STFC

  2. Watch: 'Liar' row during EU referendum debate

    EU referendum campaigners have clashed over immigration, the economy and a range of other issues at a special debate organised by BBC Midlands Today.

    A panel of politicians and business leaders took questions from an audience in Birmingham. 

    There were heated exchanges between Lord Digby Jones, from the Leave campaign, and Labour MP Tristram Hunt, for Remain.

    If you missed the debate you can catch it in full on BBC iPlayer.  

  3. 'Body' on Shropshire road was drunken man taking a nap

    Shropshire Star

    A drunken man slept off a heavy night's boozing in the middle of a Shropshire road - sparking a 999 call by a driver worried he had found a dead body.

  4. Shropshire names in birthday honours

    It was a big weekend for some people in Shropshire who were named in the Queen's Birthday Honours. 

    Among those named was 73-year-old Ruth Walmsley of Telford who founded a charity that helped a school in danger of closing in West Africa 

    She has been appointed an MBE.

    Ruth WalmsleyRuth Walmsley

    David Tudor, a churchwarden at St Chad's in Shrewsbury, will also be appointed an MBE. 

    Three other Shropshire volunteers and fundraisers have been awarded the British Empire Medal and the former Chief Constable of the West Mercia Force, David Shaw, has been honoured with the Queen's Policing Medal. 

  5. Latest: Opposition to plans for quarry; support group wants more places for travellers

    Carlie Swain
    BBC Local Live

    Here are some of the stories we're looking at this morning:

    - Objections to plans for a sand and gravel quarry near Newport

    - A group that supports travellers is urging Shropshire Council to find more places for them to stay

    - Wenlock Olympian Society exhibition to open at Shrewsbury's Museum today

  6. Watch: Weather for Shropshire

    BBC Weather

    Cloudy to start this morning, with showers later. Charlie Slater has the forecast.

  7. Travel: Traffic slow in Telford due to roadworks

    BBC Travel

    Roadworks and temporary traffic lights are causing delays on the A4640 Redhill Way / Castle Farm Way at the A5 (Limekiln Bank) roundabout.

  8. Good morning from BBC Local Live for Shropshire

    Carlie Swain
    BBC Local Live

    I'm in the BBC Shropshire newsroom bringing you the latest news, sport, travel and weather. 

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