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A thick covering of cloud across Shropshire today, but that should start to break up later with some sunny spells. It's staying dry as well.
Here's how it's looking in Norton (top) and Kinnersley (bottom).
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Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
Shropshire Community Health Trust's decision to vote to merge with a larger NHS health body, isn't the first in its history.
It was itself the product of a merger between sections of the county's two primary care trusts in 2011.
Its main purpose is to support people's long-term health and social needs, by providing services at or near their homes.
Image source, GoogleThe trust manages an annual budget of £73m and employs over 1,000 staff.
As well as providing care in people's homes, it is responsible for a range of other services, including local clinics, health centres, GP practices, school nurses, children's mental health services and speech therapy.
It also manages the four community hospitals in Bridgnorth, Bishop's Castle, Ludlow and Whitchurch.
Levels on the River Severn are slowly falling, the Environment Agency says.
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Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
The top stories in Shropshire this lunchtime:
- The trust that runs community healthcare services in Shropshire votes itself out of existence
- Plans have been passed for a 68 bed Travelodge in Telford
- More than 300,000 shares bought in Severn Valley Railway since going on sale at the start of the month
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
The trust that run Shropshire's smaller rural hospitals and community health services has unanimously voted itself out of existence, at a meeting in Bridgnorth today.
Shropshire's Community Health Trust says it's too small to be effective, because it's struggling to recruit staff and hasn't got a big enough budget.
NHS bosses will now lead a process to merge it with a bigger health provider.
One option is for it to merge with the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust.
BBC Travel
A reminder from Shropshire Council that there'll be diversions in place on the A5 in Shrewsbury tonight.
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Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather
Cloud will break up through the day, to allow some sunny spells for most.
It'll be breezy, especially over higher ground, but the wind will gradually ease.
Top temperatures of 8C (46F).
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
Shrewsbury Town Football club is hoping plans for a new supermarket in front of their stadium on Oteley road will get the go-ahead today.
Shropshire Council planners will discuss the plans, which have been recommended for approval, at a meeting later today.
Image source, Getty ImagesShrewsbury Town own the land. The chief executive of the football club says they're keen to get moving on the project.
Quote MessageLidl would obviously start working straight away, they'd look to sign and start the build process in January. They'd also do what work they could do before Christmas to get the site ready and prepared."
Brian Caldwell, Chief Executive of Shrewsbury Football Club
Les Walton
Journalist, BBC Shropshire
A charity shop in Wellington is hoping for the safe return of some photos that were sold by mistake.
They're three photos of World War One soldiers that were part of a remembrance display at the Oxfam shop on Duke Street.
Volunteer Bert Wedge put up the display and the photographs are very personal to him.
Quote MessageThey were my sister in laws, grandmother's two husbands, who both died in the First World War. The first one, in the first week of the Somme and the second one died about two weeks before the end of the war."
Bert Wedge, Volunteer at the Oxfam shop in Wellington
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David Gregory-Kumar
Science correspondent, BBC Midlands Today
One of Britain's most successful food companies has turned to Harper Adams University in Shropshire for help in creating new products.
Dairy Crest has invested £4m in a research centre which has already created brand new cheeses and spreads.
And the students themselves are helping with the process.
Dairy Crest has invested £4m in Harper Adams research centre
Carlie Swain
BBC Local Live
Our top stories this morning:
- Telford & Wrekin Council say child sex crime figures are inaccurate
- Community Health Trust to consider merger with bigger NHS Trust
- A charity shop in Wellington is hoping for the return of items that it sold by mistake
Between September 2014 to September 2015 the home office recorded 256 sex offences against children in Telford (although that's all sex offences, not just child sex exploitation).
That was a rise of 146% on the previous year and a higher rate per 10,000 people than Rotherham, Rochdale and Stoke-on-Trent.
Image source, GoogleAccording to a report drawn up for the council in May, despite the stories about gangs of Asian men, the overwhelming majority of the perpetrators (90%) were white.
Speaking at the time, the NSPCC charity described the rise in reports in Telford as "shocking", but said it indicated victims were more confident about coming forward.
Claims by the national media that Telford is the "child sex capital of the UK" are expected to be strongly denied at a council meeting tonight.
Government figures revealed more reports of children being abused in Telford than anywhere in the country, but police and councillors will challenge that claim - saying it's not children being groomed for sex.
Image source, Science Photo LibraryThe council will also challenge claims that crimes are being carried out by Asian men.
Quote MessageIt's inaccurate to make a suggestion that because we have a high reported number of crimes [child sexual abuse] that we are therefore the child sex capital of the UK."
Councillor Paul Watling, Telford & Wrekin Council
Members of the county's Community Health Trust meet in Bridgnorth this morning.
The organisation - which runs the hospitals in Bishops Castle, Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Whitchurch, and provides community-based services such as health visitors - is due to consider merging with a bigger NHS Trust.
It has already decided it doesn't have a big enough budget to do its job properly, and is struggling to recruit staff.
Carlie Swain
BBC Local Live
Here are some of the stories we're looking at this morning:
- Claims that Telford is the "child sex capital of the UK" to be strongly denied at council meeting tonight
- A charity shop hopes for the return of some items it sold by mistake
- Decision over Lidl supermarket in Shrewsbury expected today
Some brighter spells later on today but staying breezy. Alex has the forecast.
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BBC Travel
Roadworks on the Meole Brace roundabout are slowing traffic this morning.
You'll find delays on Bank Farm Road.
Carlie Swain
BBC Local Live
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