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Updates from Friday 25 November
Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather
After a chilly start it will be a largely dry and bright day, with some long sunny spells in the south. The cloud will thicken from the north through the afternoon though.
Top temperatures of 8C (46F)
BBC Travel
The A483 in Newtown is closed in both directions this morning between the A489 Llanidloes junction and the Middle Dolfor road junction, because of an overturned car.
For more information visit the BBC Travel page.
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
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James Bond
Sports Producer, BBC Shropshire
Dave Hassall has been named as Player of the Year by the Shropshire Disabled Cricket Association.
Dave, who plays for St Georges, a team made up of disabled cricketers from Oswestry and Shrewsbury, was honoured for his performances for the side in the league in 2016 and for his overall contribution to disabled cricket in Shropshire.
Image source, David BallingerThe SDCA runs a winter indoor league for cricketers with disabilities. Currently, the league comprises of three teams who play in an indoor cricket format over the winter months.
Quote MessageDave has inspired, supported and coached team mates in the disable team at St Georges and also acts as team manager for both Shropshire Cricket Disability representative teams, Super 9s and D40."
Graham Furber, Secretary of the Shropshire Disability Cricket Association
Shrewsbury Town says it is "very disappointed" that council planners "chose to defer" a decision to move a covenant from a plot of land earmarked for a supermarket to another at the same site.
The covenant requires the land to be available for community use.
In a statement, Shrewsbury Town CEO Brian Caldwell said in failing to make a decision on the covenant, the council was not only delaying Lidl's plans to build a store, but also delaying an expansion of the club's own community activities.
Telford and Wrekin Council is set to support new-look parliamentary constituencies, but wants the name of one of them changed.
The Boundary Commission wants to move Bridgnorth in with the Wrekin instead of Ludlow, in a seat called "Bridgnorth, Wellington and the Wrekin".
Image source, Boundary Commission for EnglandCouncillors are being recommended to agree to the new boundaries tonight but to call for the seat to be called "The Wrekin and Bridgnorth".
Les Walton
Journalist, BBC Shropshire
A Telford boxing club is trying to raise money to help save an abandoned building.
The old football pavilion on Hills Lane in Madeley is being done up by the Lenny Woodhall Community Boxing Club.
The club has members as young as five and says it just needs a few hundred pounds to help do it up.
Quote MessageSome kids can't even afford to pay, but we still let them through the door, because better for them to be in our club than roaming around the streets at night, really. It isn't the biggest building in the world, but we've got somewhere, we've tidied it up, we've all worked hard on it."
Neil Wall, Len Woodhall Community Boxing Club
Alex Seftel
Journalist, BBC Shropshire
The Captain Webb Primary School in Dawley is to close tomorrow because of drainage problems.
It follows advice from the Environmental Health team at Telford and Wrekin Council.
Image source, GoogleThe school hopes to solve the problem over the weekend, and to reopen on Monday.
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
Plans to build a Lidl store in front of the Shrewsbury Town Football ground on Otley road have been approved by Shropshire Council.
But there is likely to be a delay as the land on which the supermarket is to be built currently has a covenant which states that it has to be used for community use.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe covenant will have to be transferred to another piece of land, before any building work can start.
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
Police are trying to identify those who attacked two schools in Bridgnorth at the weekend, causing criminal damage.
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Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today
A dry night with variable amounts of cloud and clear spells. Chilly, but with a fairly fresh breeze persisting temperatures will remain above freezing.
Minimum temperatures of 5C (41F)
Alex Seftel
Journalist, BBC Shropshire
A Thai restaurant near Broseley has been honoured by the country's monarchy.
Image source, GoogleThe King and Thai has been given a "royal warrant" for upholding traditional ways of preparing Thailand's national cuisine.
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
Three members of staff at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen have been nominated for an award - by the patients they treated recognising the level of care they gave.
Physio Kate Betts was nominated by Meira Lloyd Owen, after she had an accident that left her paraplegic. Kate helped her recover and gave her the confidence to use a wheelchair.
Image source, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic HospitalSurgeon Robin Banerjee was nominated by Susan Griffiths, after he helped her with two hip replacements in six years.
And nurse Penny Oak was nominated by James Hunter who was treated for an unusual bone growth in his spine. The winner will be announced tonight.
Primark will open a new store in Shrewsbury within months and bring 100 new jobs to the town, it has been confirmed, external.
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
The top stories in Shropshire this afternoon:
- Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says both of Shropshire's main hospitals should keep their A&E units
- Shropshire Community Health Trust is set to merge with a larger health body
- New 68-bed hotel given the go-ahead in Telford
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says both of Shropshire's main hospitals should keep full A&E facilities.
Long-awaited reorganisation plans, which have yet to be finalised, are set to centralise blue-light emergency care at either Shrewsbury or Telford, although both would still deal with most cases.
Mr Corbyn says Shropshire's too big to just have one emergency unit.
Jeremy Corbyn calls for good A&E access across Shropshire
Nick Southall
Journalist, BBC Shropshire
A Shropshire charity is looking for donations of clothing, toys and toiletries for babies and young children to help vulnerable families this Christmas.
The Shrewsbury and Oswestry National Childbirth Trust wants to help children under the age of two and it's already received 17 referrals from a number of agencies within Shropshire.
Drop-off points include Rent a Space on Battlefield Road in Shrewsbury and Palmers Cafe on Claremont Street.
Oswestry's Kinokulture cinema expects to reopen tonight after a boiler failure led to the cancellation of films over the past two days.
Image source, GoogleEngineers are due in today to fix it.
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
Telford and Wrekin Council has approved plans for a new 68-bedroom hotel, on land to the south of Southwater Way, close to the lake.
There'll be an outdoor seating area and public open space area at the west end of the building, which will form an extension of the existing Southwater Square.
Image source, Telford and Wrekin CouncilThe hotel is part of the Southwater development, a mixture of leisure, recreation, food, drink, hotels and a library.
