BBC Local Live: Shropshire Friday 9 December 2016

Summary

Laser pen shone at RAF Shawbury helicopter
Telford man appears in court charged with ten sex offences against girls
Wrekin MP to meet health secretary over hospital proposals
Updates on Friday 9 December

Live Reporting

Andy Giddings

Call for head of healthcare review to step downpublished at 13:50 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
The man in charge of drawing up plans for the future of healthcare in the county should step down, a leading Shropshire councillor says.
Simon Wright is the lead on the Sustainability and Transformation Plan, external (STP) board which has recommended moving hospital care out into the community wherever possible, but the plan has been criticised by NHS England.
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Karen Calder, in charge of health at Shropshire Council, said because Mr Wright is also Chief Executive of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust, he is too focused on emergency care.
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There's some great talents in that STP board and they need to concentrate on their own areas and I think an independent chair will address some of the criticisms in the NHS response."
Councillor Karen Calder, Shropshire Council
Your photos: Dark cloud around Shropshirepublished at 13:31 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
BBC Weather Watchers
It was dark and cloudy first thing this morning, as you can see from these photos shared by the BBC Weather Watchers.
They were taken near Kinnersley (top) and Ludlow (below).
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Sheriffhales decide not to take up Shifnal lights offerpublished at 13:14 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
Andy Giddings
BBC Shropshire
The village of Sheriffhales has decided not to take up an offer from neighbouring Shifnal to borrow some Christmas lights.
Shifnal Town Council made the offer after thieves stole the majority of the Sheriffhales lights earlier in the week.
Image source, Pippa Hodgetts
The man who puts them up every year, Peter Young, said they had decided that as it was close to Christmas, it would be simpler to rearrange the lights that remained.
The village is planning a number of fundraising events next year, to buy new lights.
Future Fit: Legal challenge will be launched unless changes made over Shropshire A&E planspublished at 12:53 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
Telford Journal
A legal challenge against the Future Fit review of Shropshire's hospital services will be launched on Monday unless changes are made, it was revealed today.
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Headlines: Telford man charged with sex offences; health secretary to meet MP over hospital plans; Labour win by-electionpublished at 12:34 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
Andy Giddings
BBC Shropshire
Our headlines this lunchtime:
- Telford man charged with sex offences
- Wrekin MP to meet health secretary over hospital proposals
- Labour takes control of Telford and Wrekin Council after by-election win
Drink-drive simulator in Telford shopping centrepublished at 12:19 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
A driving simulator, showing you what it's like to drink-drive, is in Telford Town Centre today.
West Mercia Deputy Chief Constable Chris Singer and Police Crime Commissioner John Campion have been among those sitting behind the wheel this morning.
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In the last three years 10 people died and 108 were seriously injured in collisions in the West Mercia region with drink or drugs being a contributory factor.
The Telford's TTC group, external, which runs driver re-education programmes, has arranged for the simulator to be there.
Your questions: Origins of Wem's 'treacle mines'published at 12:02 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
Andy Giddings
BBC Shropshire
Jon Edwards got in touch with us through the Your Questions section of the BBC website, to ask "Why is Wem known by locals as the treacle mines?"
Councillor Pauline Dee is always a good source of information about the town and she says there are two stories.
One is that there was a tanners in the town and that it gave off a glutenous by-product which looked a lot like treacle.
The other story involves a chemist shop in the town, run by a man called Mr Haynes.
During the war it was said that despite food-shortages, his shop never ran out of treacle, leading locals to joke that he had a treacle mine beneath the shop.
Other towns around the country also claim to have treacle mines, for various reasons, but of course you can't really mine treacle.
Weather: Cloudy with some rain laterpublished at 11:56 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
Sara Blizzard
BBC Weather
It's going to be a cloudy afternoon in Shropshire with some rain forecast this evening.
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Telford man charged with sex offencespublished at 11:40 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
Andy Giddings
BBC Shropshire
A 68-year-old man from Telford has been charged with a number of sex offences.
He was charged yesterday with four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a female under 13 years, two counts of indecent assault of a female under 14 years and four counts of assaulting a female aged 13 and over by penetration.
Police find air rifle after shots fired in Howlepublished at 11:17 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
Police say they have found an air rifle thought to have been used in an incident in a village near Newport yesterday.
They have also released on bail two men in their twenties who were arrested after shots were fired in Howle.
A vehicle was damaged in the incident, but nobody was hurt.
Watch: Hurst looks for win away to Millwallpublished at 11:12 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
James Bond
Sports Producer, BBC Shropshire
Shrewsbury Town travel to Millwall tomorrow, hoping to rediscover their scoring form.
But, manager Paul Hurst says he cares more about the win than getting lots of goals.
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Shrewsbury Town manager Paul Hurst says Millwall game will be tough test
MPs clash again over hospital proposalspublished at 10:55 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
Plans for a major reorganisation of Shropshires hospitals continue to divide our MPs, along geographical lines.
The Wrekin MP Mark Pritchard, is against the proposals, which would involve downgrading Telford's A&E and moving women and children's services to Shrewsbury and said he has arranged a meeting with the Health Secretary.
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Meanwhile, the Shrewsbury MP, Daniel Kawczynski, is happy with the proposals and appears keen to push forward with them this morning.
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Leather sofas dumped at Shropshire beauty spotpublished at 10:39 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
South Shropshire Journal
Hill walkers may be grateful for a sit down along the trail, but not on chairs that have simply been dumped at a Shropshire beauty spot., external
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Labour takes overall control at Telford and Wrekin Councilpublished at 10:12 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
Labour have won a seat from the Conservatives in a Telford and Wrekin Council by-election.
The Conservatives had been hoping local MP Lucy Allan's communications officer, Rob Cadman, could replace Clive Mollet, whose death caused the by-election, in Horsehay and Lightmoor.
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Mr Cadman lost to Labour's Raj Metha. The turnout was 17%. Labour now has an overall majority.
Headlines: Labour take control of council; £2.7m raised by Shropshire parking charges; Hurst wants to silence doubterspublished at 10:00 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
Andy Giddings
BBC Shropshire
Our headlines this morning:
- Labour take overall control of Telford and Wrekin Council after by-election
- Shropshire council raises £2.7m in car parking charges
- Shrewsbury Town manager aims to prove the doubters wrong
Shrewsbury Town manager determined to prove the doubters wrongpublished at 09:52 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
James Bond
Sports Producer, BBC Shropshire
Shrewsbury Town's manager Paul Hurst says he's ready to prove the doubters wrong.
The Town manager has admitted, he knows there were some who thought on his move from Grimsby, that he wasn't qualified enough to take on the Shrewsbury job.
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Coming here, some people have said, you know it's a bit of a surprise almost. Is it really a good move? Time will tell ultimately, but I came with an idea of keeping us in the league and I know that that won't be easy. And that it will take a lot of fight and spirit, but I was up for that and I still am."
Paul Hurst, Shrewsbury Town Manager
£2.7m raised in car parking charges for Shropshire Councilpublished at 09:34 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
Faith Page
Reporter, BBC Shropshire
Latest figures show car parking charges raised profits of more than £750m for councils in England.
Shropshire Council was towards the top of the table, raising £2.7m - a reduction on the previous year.
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And Telford and Wrekin was towards the bottom raising £72,000, up from a loss of £104k.
The figures for 2015-16 are "eye wateringly large" according to the RAC Foundation which compiled the data.
Shropshire roadworks alert as Severn Trent to spend £850k on pipe replacementpublished at 09:19 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
South Shropshire Journal
Severn Trent is to spend about £850,000 replacing nearly five miles of pipes, external in south Shropshire.
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Lecturer says people with dyslexia shouldn't be written offpublished at 09:01 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
James Bond
Sports Producer, BBC Shropshire
A Shropshire lecturer says people with dyslexia should be given every chance to show what they can do instead of being written off.
The condition makes reading, writing and spelling difficult.
Sarah Probert only found out she was dyslexic when she was 18. She now teaches at North Shropshire College and was recently named Teacher of the Year at the county's dyslexia awards.
Despite that, she said she had had to battle early in life against labels such as "lazy".
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I fought very hard. I got myself to college. It was there that I met a lecturer who said look Sarah you're bright, there's something going on here. One of the first things I will say when I have a new group of students is 'I'm dyslexic', so there are no barriers. The sky is the limit."
Sarah Probert, Teacher
Travel: Trains delayed between Shrewsbury and Wolverhamptonpublished at 08:45 Greenwich Mean Time 9 December 2016
BBC Travel
You may face delays if you're travelling between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton this morning, due to a signal fault at Codsall.
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