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Updates on Friday 5 August
We'll be back with our usual mix of news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 tomorrow, but keep an eye out here for more updates this evening and into the morning.
A wet night this evening but clearing up overnight. Here's Charlie with the forecast.
Charlie Slater has your forecast
Telford's Hindus are celebrating the installation of a sacred statue.
The marble deity of Lord Krishna is the last of three to be unveiled at the former council building in Dawley Bank, which was bought seven years ago.
It's been transformed into a Hindu temple and education centre.
Hindus in Telford celebrate the unveiling of the Lord Krishna statue
Telford & Wrekin Council leader Shaun Davies has written to the borough's two MPs to ask for their help in lobbying the government to get a "fairer funding deal".
Mr Davies says the government's own figures show the area has £12m less per year than the average council to spend on front-line services.
He's asked Wrekin MP Mark Pritchard and Telford MP Lucy Allan to work alongside the council.
A man has died at Pontcysyllte Aqueduct just over the Welsh border.
The man, believed to be in his 20s, has not been identified and North Wales Police say inquiries are ongoing.
Image source, AKKE MONASSOThe death is not being treated as suspicious.
Anyone with information is asked to call the police on 101.
The controversy over whether or not to fell two young oak trees on Whitcliffe Common in Ludlow has got you talking on our Facebook page., external
Lesley Tomlinson writes: "Unless trees are diseased, they should be left where they are. These trees have been on this earth longer than we have - and should be here long after we've gone!"
Iain Kelly Burns had this to say: "Sympathetically sculptured. Best of both worlds. Trees stay, view returns."
Muriel Grenfell-Hill commented: "Leave them please! They are part of the view! If you walk along the top of the common, there are plenty of uninterrupted views of Ludlow!"
BBC Sport
Tyrone Barnett has left Shrewsbury Town after it was mutually agreed that his contract would be cancelled.
He joined the club in 2015 and went on to make 39 appearances, scoring eight goals.
Image source, Getty ImagesShrewsbury Town have thanked him for his hard work and dedication.
Carlie Swain
BBC Local Live
Our top stories this evening:
- Police treat disappearance of a Shrewsbury man as suspicious
- Telford & Wrekin Council leader asks MPs to lobby government for "fairer funding deal'"
- Oak trees are at the root of a row between Ludlow Town Council and the Friends of Whitcliffe Common
Ludlow Town council is hoping to save two young oak trees on Whitcliffe common from the axe.
The Friends of Whitcliffe Common have applied for planning permission to fell the trees because they say they are obstructing the view of the town.
Councillors Andy Boddington and Tracey Huffer want to keep the trees because they say they enhance the view.
Quote MessageThey want to cut down two healthy oak trees to improve the view... stand a bit to the right or stand a bit to the left and ignore them. I simply can't countenance cutting down health oaks."
Councillor Andy Boddington
Quote MessageI can remember these oaks as baby oaks... I like them and i think it would be absolutely terrible to cut them down."
Councillor Tracey Huffer
Eric and Clare's Breakfast Show
It's just four days until the Olympic Games gets under way in Rio.
And it got us thinking about veterans and unsung heroes who've flown the flag for their sport in Shropshire.
You can hear their inspiring stories on the Breakfast show this week.
Here's Ted Hoy from Oswestry. He's 88 years old, and still swims and cycles. He only stopped competing in World Triathlon competitions at 81.
Meet Ted Hoy - one of Shropshire's sporting unsung heroes
The disappearance of a man from Shropshire five months ago is now being treated as suspicious, say West Mercia Police., external
Russell Blent, 35, hasn't been seen since March.
He was last seen in the Meole Brace area of Shrewsbury, although he'd also recently spent time in Bridgnorth.
Image source, West Mercia PolicePolice say it's completely out of character for him to be missing so long, especially as he hasn't claimed any benefits or followed other parts of his usual routine.
Officers say his family are desperate for news about his whereabouts.
Two immature oak trees are causing conflict between Ludlow Town Council and the Friends of Whitcliffe Common.
Some of the Friends want the trees felled because they say they are obstructing the view of Ludlow.
They've applied for permission to take them down saying it's in their remit to keep the view clear and that the benefit to the wider common should be taken into consideration.
Quote MessageIf we are never going to be allowed to cut down a healthy tree that view will go."
Daphne Jones, Friends of Whitcliffe Common
Vicki Archer
Presenter, BBC Shropshire
This is Mel and her five-year-old son Ethan from Shrewsbury.
I've been talking to Mel about Ethan's disability and the recent changes to Disability Living Allowance.
More from Mel this afternoon with Vicki and Mark.
Mel and her son Ethan on life after changes to DLA
Carlie Swain
BBC Local Live
Our top stories this afternoon:
- The disappearance of a man from Shropshire five months ago is now being treated as suspicious
- Man dies at Pontcysyllte Aqueduct over the Welsh border
- Controversy over whether to fell two young oak trees in Ludlow
BBC Sport
Shropshire have the upper hand on day two of their three-day match against Cheshire.
Cheshire have been bowled out for 234 in their first innings with David Wainwright taking 5-63.
Shropshire go into their second innings with a lead of 96 runs.
There's controversy brewing in Ludlow over a pair of oak trees currently growing on Whitcliffe Common.
They're thought to be around 50 years old, and fit and healthy - but the Friends of Whitcliffe Common have applied for planning permission to take them down.
The Town Council aren't sure that's a good thing.
More than £7,000 was raised in memory of a much-loved father and husband who died suddenly last month., external
Our Made in Telford mural project took centre stage all last week and the finished product is still in place in Telford Shopping Centre for you to have a look at.
It's a 16ft wide, 6ft high canvas commemorating all things Telford and Shropshire created by a local graffiti artist.
Paul Shuttleworth took his Summer Saturday show to Telford Shopping Centre
Telford Tigers' league fixture list is out - and they face a tough first match.
They'll start their English Premier League campaign away to champions Basingstoke Bison on Saturday 10 September.
Their first home game is 24 hours later, Sunday 11 September, against Manchester Phoenix.
Coming up on Midlands Today at 13:30 on BBC One - the return of the otter.
From the brink of extinction in the 1980s - experts say that otters are now thriving on the River Severn.
Unique footage of the secret life of otters caught on camera
