Updates from Monday 25 to Friday 29 September 2017
Shropshire's two main hospitals say they won't compromise patient care despite being £11m in the red, almost £5m more than forecast.
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust says part of the overspend is partly due to having to rely on agency staff.
The chief executive of the trust Simon Wright says is is looking at ways to bring it back under control.
Alex Seftel
Journalist, BBC Shropshire
Official plans have been submitted for the demolition of Ironbridge Power Station's cooling towers.
The proposals given to Shropshire Council detail a three-year programme for the whole site, which stopped producing electricity in November 2015.
The towers have stood in the gorge since 1969 but the site's owner Uniper says they're too costly to maintain.
Mark Elliott
BBC News
A south Shropshire woman has been charged with the murder of her seven-year-old son.
Police were called to this house last Thursday evening
Lesley Speed, 44, of Rushbury Road, Wall-under-Heywood, near Church Stretton, is accused of killing Archie Spriggs.
She is set to appear at Telford Magistrates' Court later.
Faith Page
Reporter, BBC Shropshire
A fire broke out a fish and chip shop in Shropshire yesterday evening.
Five vehicles, including one with an aerial platform, were sent to put out the blaze at Tony's Fish and Chip shop, in Quatford, near Bridgnorth.
The fire began in the kitchen at about 18:00.
Elaine Muir
Journalist, BBC Shropshire
Hospital bosses in Shropshire are having to think again about what they would do if they lose another A&E consultant.
Image source, PAShrewsbury and Telford Hospitals Trust (SATH) has been trying to come up with a contingency plan for what would happen if it could no longer safely staff both of the county's accident and emergency departments full time.
That point could be reached if one more senior doctor leaves.
The preferred option was to look at downgrading Telford's A&E overnight.
But a report going to its board today says that would take six months to do.
Quote MessageThe problem is we could find ourselves in that circumstance within three months. Being in a position where we have an answer but it takes too long is not acceptable
Simon Wright, SATH chief executive
Charlie Slater
BBC Weather presenter
After a misty and foggy start for some, it should be a dry and bright day with some sunny spells and highs of 18C (64F).
Latest weather for the West Midlands
Mark Elliott
BBC News
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Firefighters were called to a fire at a house on Conduit Lane in Bridgnorth earlier this afternoon.
The fire service say it started in a garage and spread to a loft and roof area - it was put out in just over an hour.
Nobody was in the property at the time.
The seal, found by National Geographic detector Tim Saylor, is described as his 'best find ever'.
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Shefali Oza
BBC Midlands Today
We're going to see more rain tonight, some of it heavy, but the forecast looks a lot better for tomorrow. Overnight lows of 14C (57F).
Weather forecast for the West Midlands
Elaine Muir
Journalist, BBC Shropshire
People who need to see a specialist for brain or nervous system disorders will have to go to Wolverhampton for at least the next three months.
Shropshire's neurology service has been closed to new referrals since March, because the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust doesn't have enough specialist doctors.
Image source, SATHIt was meant to be a temporary move for six months, but, although some improvements have been made, the trust still doesn't have the consultants they need.
Trust chief executive, Simon Wright, says it is hopeful that it will have a solution in the next three to six months.
Up to £200,000 worth of cannabis has been discovered in a Telford house., external
Shrewsbury Town boss Paul Hurst says the League One leaders are simply "halfway to our target" of staying up.
Read MoreClaims made at the Labour Party conference today that Shropshire hospital services are under threat because of under-funding from the government have previously been denied by the health service here.
The chief executive of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust, Simon Wright, has said that staff shortages in A&E are due to Shropshire hospitals being seen as unattractive to specialists, because of the high workload and not because of a lack of funding.
Earlier this week he said he was confident he had enough money to deal with increased demand over the winter.
Image source, SATHThe proposed changes to hospital services, which could see Shrewsbury become the county's centre for emergency medicine and Telford the centre for planned operations, are being driven by clinical need, Mr Wright has said.
Nationally, £140bn was spent on health services last year, with 30p out of every £1 the government spends going on the NHS.
Severn Trent has closed its last water bottle collection point, in Broseley.
It set up four when a burst pipe on Sunday left thousands of homes without water, but says the network is now returning to normal.
The other collection points, in Madeley, Ironbridge and Much Wenlock, had already closed.
Shrewsbury Town boss Paul Hurst is pleased that people are taking notice of his table-topping League One side.
Read MoreThe pressure on Shropshire health services has been raised at the Labour Party conference today.
Labour's spokesperson for the Shrewsbury and Atcham constituency, Kate Halliday, told her fellow delegates in Brighton the county risks losing A&E services, hospital beds and day services and accused the government of cutting NHS funding to the county.
Image source, PAMs Halliday also challenged the county's Conservative MPs to do more to protect services, saying "words are not enough any more".
Quote MessageGovernment policies are putting the lives and health of people in Shropshire at risk, as well as cutting up to 2,000 vital local jobs
Kate Halliday, Labour spokesperson for Shrewsbury
People who were without water for more than 15 hours as a result of the burst water pipe in Telford are going to get £30 knocked off their bills by Severn Trent.
The company says the compensation will be deducted automatically and is the equivalent of a month's payments.
Image source, Severn TrentMore than 20,000 homes were affected by the water loss and the Severn Trent has handed out more than 500,000 bottles of water.
The company said its engineers had had "huge support from local people, businesses, councillors and the emergency services" and there had been "a fantastic community spirit around the area".
Quote MessageWhether it was food delivered to our engineers who were working on the repair from local cafes and takeaways, or volunteers coming forward to help at our collection points – your support has been absolutely amazing and we can’t thank you enough
Sarah Bentley, Severn Trent
A team of US metal detectorists who uncovered a papal seal and French silver coin in fields near Oswestry, Shropshire, also unearthed an Irish coin which could date back to the reign of King John and what appears to be a Roman pin (pictured below).
It's not the first time in the spotlight for Tim Saylor, Carlotta Brandenburg, Jocelyn Elizabeth and Beau Ouimette - they've all previously appeared on the National Geographic Channel in the United States.
They were over here on a holiday organised by Whittington company, Metal Detecting Holidays.
Image source, Metal Detecting Holidays