BBC Local Live: Shropshire Friday 16 December 2016

Summary

Hospitals chief exec says A&E review will be back on track in weeks
Motorcyclist knocked off bike by Christmas lights stretched across road
Shrewsbury Town manager wants to improve disciplinary record
Updates from Thursday 15 December

Live Reporting

Andy Giddings

Watch: Rail strikes 'could spread' to West Midlandspublished at 16:37 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
Peter Plisner
BBC Midlands Today
Rail unions are warning of strike action if a scheme to remove guards from trains is introduced in the West Midlands.
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Ken Usher from the RMT Union
Drivers and guards are currently on strike on the Southern Rail network in a dispute over who should operate train doors.
The RMT Union says the same thing could happen in the West Midlands and Ken Usher from the union says they don't believe the change would be safe for passengers.
On Tuesday, the government said it may consider banning strikes on the railways.
Emergency services prepare for busy weekendpublished at 16:34 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
Andy Giddings
BBC Online
The emergency services say they are expecting this weekend to be one of their busiest of the year and extra police officers will be going on patrol around our town centres.
West Mercia Police says alcohol related violence is a big issue over the Christmas period, with 1,005 violent crimes reported last Christmas.
The force says last December 46% of violent crime, where someone was injured, was alcohol related.
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People behave differently when they are drunk, they do things they would never dream of doing when they are sober. I urge people to think about their behaviour and the consequences for themselves and others."
Chief Superintendent Alex Franklin-Smith, West Mercia Police
Travel: Accident at Telford roundabout continuing to cause disruptionpublished at 16:11 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
BBC Travel
The A442 in Telford remains partially blocked and there's slow traffic at Brockton Roundabout, because of an accident on the roundabout.
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Watch: Shropshire choir celebrates 10th anniversarypublished at 15:52 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
A choir that started in Shrewsbury 10 years ago, with some friends gathering around the piano to sing Christmas carols now has over 90 members.
Over the past decade the Jigsaw Sound, external choir has performed at a number of venues around the county and raised thousands of pounds for local causes.
This month it has also been invited to perform in Liverpool.
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A Shropshire choir started at Christmas 10 years ago now has over 90 members
Football: Cieslewicz hopes to return for TNSpublished at 15:34 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
BBC Sport
Adrian Cieslewicz hopes to start for The New Saints at Rhyl tonight where TNS are chasing an amazing 24th successive win in all competitions.
Cieslewicz made his return as a second-half sub in the last game and scored too! after months out with a skull fracture.
Headlines: Frustration over health review delay; extra police this weekend; Carols in the Squarepublished at 15:14 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
Andy Giddings
BBC Shropshire
Here's a recap of our headlines this afternoon:
- Hospitals chief frustrated by delay to Future Fit review
- Extra police officers to patrol town centres this weekend
- Carols in the Square in Shrewsbury this evening
Hospitals chief frustrated by Future Fit delaypublished at 14:56 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
The chief executive of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust says the county's "fragile" A&E departments can't carry on as they are, relying on "the continued good will of clinical teams".
Simon Wright is disappointed at the decision of the county's health commissioners to put hospital reorganisation on hold and said he was waiting for feedback from them "in regard to process, decision-making and pace", before deciding what to do about emergency care.
Image source, SaTH
Mr Wright also said "our population may be denied an opportunity to engage in formal consultation" because of the decision of the two clinical commissioning groups.
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Simply relying on the continued good will of clinical teams in our A&Es, Intensive Therapy Units, and acute medicine heroically to carry these risks 24/7 cannot continue."
Simon Wright, SaTH chief executive
Football: Shrewsbury to lose three players to suspensionpublished at 14:31 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
BBC Sport
Shrewsbury Town will be missing three first-team players for the matches against Bristol Rovers and Bolton Wanderers, after last night's defeat to Fleetwood.
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Adam El-Abd is suspended for the games because of the red card he received, while Gary Deegan (pictured above) and Ivan Toney get two-match bans for picking up their 10th bookings of the season.
Carols in The Square this eveningpublished at 14:14 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
Tonight the centre of Shrewsbury will be packed for the annual Carols in The Square event.
Carol singers and a brass band will be among the acts on stage and it will be hosted by BBC Radio Shropshire presenters Eric Smith and Clare Ashford.
Football: TNS seeking 24th win on the trot tonightpublished at 13:54 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
The New Saints have a Welsh Premier League game at Rhyl tonight and are looking to make it 24 league and cup wins on the trot. Manager Craig Harrison says it will be a tough game.
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MP takes hospital concerns to PMpublished at 13:32 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
The MP for Shrewsbury says he is writing to the prime minister, because he is unhappy at the latest delay to the review of Shropshire's hospital services.
Daniel Kawczynski supported the review's recommendation that Shrewsbury should get the county's only full emergency department and was left frustrated when health commissioners voted to put the process on hold, to allow more work to be done.
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Whitchurch Herald front page: Cut-price mansionpublished at 13:14 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
Whitchurch Herald
Whitchurch Hall, one of north Shropshire's finest mansions, is back on the market at a cut-price £3m., external
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On Midlands Today from 13:30: Rail strike warning for West Midlandspublished at 12:51 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
Peter Plisner
BBC Midlands Today
Rail unions are warning of strike action if a controversial scheme to remove guards from trains is introduced in the West Midlands.
Drivers and guards are currently on strike on the Southern Rail network in a dispute over who should operate train doors.
Image source, PA
The RMT union says the same thing could happen in this region.
On Tuesday, the government said it may consider banning strikes on the railways.
We'll have more on BBC One from 13:30.
Headlines: Frustration at hospital review delay; call for rural maternity units to be saved; valuable stained glass found in bathroompublished at 12:35 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
Andy Giddings
BBC Shropshire
Our headlines this lunchtime:
- Frustration at delay to hospital reorganisation proposals
- Mum calls for rural maternity units to be maintained
- Stained glass in bathroom turns out to be valuable work of art
Your photos: Some mist around south Shropshire this morningpublished at 12:17 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
BBC Weather Watchers
We're forecast a clear and sunny afternoon, but it was a bit cloudy first thing today and the BBC Weather Watchers have shared some photos of mist in the south of the county.
This one was taken near Ludlow.
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Weather: Clear skies and a dry night for Shropshirepublished at 12:00 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather
We'll have a clear and sunny afternoon and a dry night, but unfortunately not much chance of snow for Carols in The Square in Shrewsbury this evening.
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Alex Hamilton with the West Midlands weather forecast.
Shropshire sorting offices dealing with Christmas rushpublished at 11:45 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
Ian Perry
BBC Radio Shropshire
The delivery office at Oswestry is three or four times busier than normal at this time of year, according to the manager there, Mark Robinson.
He said his post vans covered an area of 400 square miles, stretching over the border, into Wales.
The deadline for second class post is next Tuesday and the deadline for first class is next Wednesday.
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It's the busiest time of year, but its christmas after all and there's a real nice atmosphere, simply because the amount of work they've got to do, they've got to get along haven't they."
Mark Robinson, Oswestry Delivery Office manager
Shropshire GP speaks out as county health reform stallspublished at 11:29 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
A Shropshire GP says something needs to be done to reform healthcare in the county.
Dr Finola Lynch spoke out after plans to have a super A&E in Shrewsbury and urgent care centre in Telford stalled.
She says clinicians are struggling to work with things as they are.
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Everyone is just surviving I think and desperately trying to their best, putting the patient first, but feeling increasingly that we're swimming uphill. Something does really need to be done to reconfigure our services."
Dr Finola Lynch, Shropshire GP
Telford Panto star entertains royaltypublished at 11:10 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
One of the stars of Telford's pantomime enjoyed an even bigger spotlight last night.
Bernie Clifton, who's starring in Sleeping Beauty at the Place in Oakengates, entertained a TV audience of millions in the Royal Variety Performance.
He says it was a career highlight.
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David Walliams has this great idea, throughout the show, that he would refer to me and my comedy ostrich as the top of the bill. And it went on through the show. Everybody likes Robbie Williams, Lady Gaga, Sting, Barry Gibb. Then of course when the world's stars peeled back I charged down on the ostrich. In my whole life, there'll be nothing ever like it."
Bernie Clifton, Entertainer
Stained glass window in bathroom turns out to be valuable work of artpublished at 10:53 Greenwich Mean Time 14 December 2016
Kate Tebby
Journalist, BBC Shropshire
A Shropshire woman who discovered that a stained glass window in her bathroom was a valuable work of art, is hoping someone may know how it got there.
When Rosalind Garrard moved to Church Stretton she knew the window was unusual and it turned out to be a stained-glass panel created by the artist Margaret Rope.
Rosalind has no idea how it got there. It's now been restored and mounted and is on show until the middle of next month at Shrewsbury Museum in the Old Music Hall.
Image source, BBC/Shropshire Council