The Telford MP, Lucy Allan, has called recommendations that Telford lose emergency care and women and children's services "completely incomprehensible" and a "complete betrayal".

She has been speaking to NHS leaders today and says she now believes they have already made up their minds and that the decision is now a "foregone conclusion".

Ms Allan also said it would be wrong to close the newly-opened women and children's unit at the Princess Royal Hospital and move the services to Shrewsbury.

The NHS Future Fit review body has insisted no decision has been made.

It's not just the content of the NHS report on A&E services which has upset local politicians - it's the way the news leaked out.

It broke this morning when Gill George from the pressure group Shropshire Defend Our NHS, external spoke on BBC Radio Shropshire to reveal a non-financial appraisal was recommending basing both emergency and women and children's services in Shrewsbury.

The leader of Telford and Wrekin Council and Telford MP Lucy Allan both called the NHS Future Fit group responsible for the report to "come clean" on the proposals.

And Ludlow councillor Tracey Huffer, supporting the move to Shrewsbury, said she was unhappy the NHS didn't announce the news itself.

Andy Giddings
BBC Shropshire

Our headlines this evening include:

- Report recommends just one full A&E department for the county - in Shrewsbury

- Flying Scotsman makes final trip on Severn Valley Railway

- Man pleads guilty to skate park charge

After steaming up and down the Severn Valley Railway for the past five days, the Flying Scotsman is making its final trip down the line.

The railway says around 35,000 people have been to Bridgnorth since last Thursday and it has been the biggest event ever staged there.

Image source, @svrbridgnorth

Image source, @svrbridgnorth

Andy Giddings
BBC Shropshire

The report that recommends downgrading Telford's A&E department and moving women and children's services to Shrewsbury has angered people in Telford, but has been welcomed in other parts of the county.

Tracey Huffer, Shropshire Councillor for Ludlow East and a practising nurse, said that if there is to be only one full A&E department in the county, it suits people in the south of the county to have it in Shrewsbury.

But Councillor Huffer said she would be worried if planned surgery and treatment moved to Telford, as part of the plan, explaining: "There is no practical public transport between Ludlow and the Princes Royal Hospital."

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More than 60 years after her death, a woman who created works of art found in churches around the world has been recognised for her achievements. 

Margaret Rope was born in Shrewsbury in 1882. A Victorian rebel, she gave up motorbikes and cigars to become a nun.

See more on the life and work of Margaret Rope on BBC Inside Out West Midlands at 19:30 on BBC One and available afterwards on iPlayer.

Andy Giddings
BBC Shropshire

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The plan would be to base both those services in Shrewsbury instead and Phil Lewis approved, writing: "The choice of Shrewsbury makes geographical sense, especially when Mid Wales is added to the equation."

Sarah Harrison is not impressed though: "I have enough problems getting to the PRH when I am having a major asthma attack. Moving A&E to Shrewsbury means my chances reduce dramatically."

Daniel Jones believes the NHS should reconsider the idea of a new hospital: "Shrewsbury hospital is falling apart and has been for years, if its not to be kept at Telford would it not make sense to knock the two hospitals down, build a super hospital in a fair distance from everyone."

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This photo, taken near Church Stretton this lunchtime, is pretty representative of the photos we've been getting from the BBC Weather Watchers today.

The forecast is for the rain to ease up through the afternoon, but the cloud is expected to stay.

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NHS proposals to move women and children's services in Telford and to downgrade its current A&E department will be resisted, the MP for the Wrekin says.

He is one of a number of Telford politicians who have been holding talks with health bosses today.

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Traffic around the Mile End roundabout, just outside Oswestry, should be running as normal again.

The possibility of Telford losing its emergency care department and possibly the women and children's unit too is uniting politicians in the town, the leader of Telford and Wrekin council says., external

The Conservative MPs for the Wrekin and Telford have both expressed their anger at the news that a report going before NHS leaders next month recommends moving services to Shrewsbury.

The Future Fit review group said that a decision was still a long way off, but councillor Shaun Davies is threatening a legal challenge and said his authority wouldn't tolerate the loss of the new women and children's unit at the Princess Royal Hospital.

Andy Giddings
BBC Shropshire

Our top stories this afternoon:

- Anger in Telford at report suggesting the town should lose current level of emergency care and women and children's services

- Man pleads guilty to skate park charge

- Shropshire GP shortage

Telford's politicians are fuming at a report which recommends the Princess Royal Hospital losing its emergency care and brand new women and children's unit.

The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital would be set to benefit, if these proposals are approved, but the MP for Shrewsbury, Daniel Kawczynski, appears keen to press the case for his local hospital.

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BBC News Online

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BBC Local Live

A man from Oswestry has changed his plea after admitting perverting the course of justice following the death of a man at a skate park near the town. 

Matthew Jones, 20, from Johnstown near Wrexham collapsed in the basement at the Academy Skatepark in October 2014.

Crispin Wrigley was accused of deliberately failing to tell police about the existence of the basement and of cleaning it during the early stages of their investigation. He's due to be sentenced at Shrewsbury Crown Court next month.

Ian Perry
BBC Radio Shropshire

Back in May, BBC Radio Shropshire started an experiment with the help of a farmer from Ellesmere to see if it was possible to bring back the mangel wurzel.

The crop was popular in the 18th Century and we are told that they're best if you pick them young.

So Stephen Jones agreed to dig up a few this morning and I took a bite...  they taste sweet and peppery, but I didn't like them.

The Telford MP, Lucy Allan, says she will be speaking to the man in charge of Shropshire's two clinical commissioning groups this lunchtime, to clarify the future of accident and emergency at the Princess Royal Hospital.

She claimed Telford has the strongest case to keep its emergency department and said that if the newly built women and children's centre closed, as part of the moves, it would be a "complete betrayal of Telford".

Ms Allan also said "I have previously dismissed such rumours a scaremongering" and that she hoped the concerns raised by health campaigners today were just misinformation.

It's emerged that a third of doctors' surgeries in Shropshire are trying to recruit GPs. 

In Whitchurch, provision is trying to be found for almost 4,000 patients because their surgery at Richmond House is closing in five weeks' time. 

Protesters took to the streets on Saturday in anger at the situation.

The Right Reverend Dr Michael Ipgrave has been installed as the new bishop of Lichfield.

He is the 99th bishop of the Lichfield diocese which covers parts of Staffordshire, Shropshire and the Black Country.

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He was installed at a service in Lichfield Cathedral on Saturday after completing a 40-mile pilgrimage from Stoke-on-Trent.

Dr Ipgrave said it had been "a joy" walking and meeting people en route.