West Mercia Police start wearing body cameras
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Telford lollipop lady retires after four decades
Updates on Friday 7 April 2017
Rebecca Wood
BBC Weather
That warm spell we're being promised is edging ever closer. It should stay dry overnight but temperatures could drop as low as 1C (34F).
You can find a detailed forecast for your area on the BBC Weather site.
Weather for the West Midlands
A man from north Shropshire has admitted setting fire to his ex-partner's car in a revenge attack.
Daniel Williamson from Treflach near Oswestry has been warned he faces a jail term.
The 25-year-old set fire to Melanie Sim's car in Meifod last month. He's been in the dock at Mold Crown Court today where he pleaded guilty.
The judge remanded Williamson in custody for three weeks while probation officers write a report on him before sentencing - but told him to prepare for "an immediate custodial sentence".
Councillors have officially opposed plans for a new quarry and landfill site near Newport.
The decision was taken at a meeting last night, but the final decision on the plans will be made by a planning inspector in November.
Telford and Wrekin Council's Conservative group leader Andrew Eade - whose ward of Church Aston is near the site on Pave Lane - says the borough doesn't need the sand and gravel or landfill.
Quote MessageWe don't want landfill or 220 HGV vehicle movements a day on and off this site on to what is a very busy and dangerous junction with the A41."
Andrew Eade , Conservative councillor, Church Aston
Labour will contest fewer than half the seats at next month's elections to Shropshire Council.
The party's fielding 31 candidates - that's four less than the Greens.
The Lib Dems have 48, the Conservatives 73 and there are nine UKIP candidates.
Voters go to the polls in the Shropshire Council area on Thursday 4 May.
For a full list of those standing in each ward, visit the Shropshire Council website , external .
The Labour party in Shropshire are promising to invest in public services as their May election campaign gets under way.
There's no poll in Telford and Wrekin this time round.
Quote MessageThere's massive low morale within the council at the moment... let's hope we [Labour] can take back control. Let's hope through proper scrutiny we can refresh this authority."
Councillor Alan Mosley , Labour Group leader, Shropshire Council
Police have arrested a driver on Holyhead Road in Ketley after a drugs test came back positive.
West Mercia Police tweeted , external that the driver also had no insurance or tax for the high performance car.
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Telford Journal
One man was treated for smoke inhalation, external after a kitchen fire at a house in Telford.
Image source, Telford JournalIt's looking like a great afternoon in the county, plenty of blue skies and sunshine.
Here's the scene in Broseley (top) and Ludlow (bottom).
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Image source, FoggyA car and a tractor have crashed at the cross roads in Crudgington near Telford this morning.
An occupant in the car was freed from the wreckage by firefighters.
Police and the ambulance service were also there.
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BBC Local Live
English Heritage is seeking the help of the public to track and monitor the moths .
Visitors to its sites will be able to collect a free clothes moth trap to place in their home, to help monitor the presence and type of moths.
Image source, SPLThe collected data will be used to help the charity decide how moths are spreading and how best to focus their conservation efforts.
Quote MessageWe want to know why numbers are rising so that we can continue to keep them under control. Come to our sites, pick up a free trap, take it home and leave it for a couple of months, and then share your findings with us on our website
Amber Xavier-Rowe , English Heritage's Head of Collections Conservation
Tim Page
News Editor, BBC Shropshire
Fire officers say arsonists on Woodside are putting lives at risk.
Eight cars have been set alight in the last three weeks. The most recent attack at the weekend damaged a total of four vehicles.
Today's warning from Shropshire fire service says it could easily have spread to nearby homes and killed people sleeping inside.
BBC Midlands Today
On Midlands Today this lunchtime, hear why an NHS physiotherapist from the region is facing deportation back to India despite a national shortage.
Plus why it's getting harder to spot a hedgehog in the West Midlands and how the Grand National could prove a big day for one of our tiny villages.
Those stories plus your lunchtime weather on BBC One from 13:30.
Plans to build a Lidl supermarket at Shrewsbury Town's stadium have been ongoing for a number of years.
Shropshire Council granted planning permission for the store, but there's a covenant that says the land earmarked for it must be used for community sports pitches.
The store would take up part of the land fronting Oteley Road where the current Power League pitches are.
The club is offering to move those pitches to where the current STFC training pitch is, at the back of the stadium. That site is set to become redundant when the team moves its training base from the Meadow to its revamped Sundorne site for next season.
Bridgnorth Journal
A Shropshire medical practice has been rated as good, external during its most recent Care Quality Commission inspection.
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James Bond
Sports Producer, BBC Shropshire
Shrewsbury Town is offering to pay £65,000 to improve sports provision in the county if a new Lidl supermarket is allowed on its land.
The issue is being reconsidered at a planning meeting next week after councillors threatened to turn it down earlier this year.
Image source, Getty ImagesSport England is against the proposals because it says there's not enough information about new community pitches.
The club's moving its own training facilities to Sundorne and says that'll free up extra land. Council planning experts are recommending it should be allowed.
Temperatures are rising and the sun is shining across the county this morning, as these photos from BBC Weather Watchers in Ludlow and Norton show.
Image source, Shropshire Lass
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Market Drayton Advertiser
A number of windows have been smashed, external in a spate of criminal damage in Market Drayton.
Image source, Market Drayton AdvertiserOne man has been treated for the effects of breathing in smoke after a kitchen fire in Telford last night.
Two fire crews, external were sent from Telford and Tweedale to the property in Old Vicarage Road, Dawley.
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The UK National Screening Committee has recommended against a national screening programme, external .
It says there is no way to predict which babies will be affected by the disease and which will be born without complications.
In its recommendation, the committe said there was "serious concern that large numbers of women will be offered and take antibiotics when they do not need to ".
Quote MessageIt is not clear whether benefits associated with screening outweigh the harms for the majority of the population."
Tracey Higgins
BBC Local Live
A Shropshire mother who lost her one-day-old baby to a Strep B infection says all pregnant women should be routinely screened.
One in five women are carriers of the bacterial infection, which can be passed on to babies at birth.
Image source, Kayleigh and Colin GriffithsShrewsbury coronor John Ellery, while recording a narrative verdict, told mum Kayleigh Griffiths yesterday that the death of baby Pippa was preventable.
Jane Plumb who founded charity Group B Strep Support, external with her husband Robert when they lost their baby Theo at just 17 hours old says there is evidence that testing does work.
Quote MessageThere was a study done in the UK a couple of years ago, which also found a reduction of 80% of these horrible and potentially devastating infections in babies. Simply by a safe, non invasive cheap test late in pregnancy and then antibiotics, simple penicillin."
Jane Plumb, Group B Strep Support
