Carlie Swain
BBC News

It's 50 years to the day that 24 women died in a fire at Shelton hospital in Shrewsbury.

The Victorian asylum closed its doors for good in 2012.

In 1968 a fire ripped through the women's wing, and changed the way people viewed fire safety forever.

It's believed the fire was started from a discarded cigarette end.

The patients had been locked in the ward next door, which was once an accepted practice.

At the time, more than 70 firefighters tacked the blaze, taking two hours to bring it under control.

What happened at Shelton was so shocking that fire safety procedures at hospitals across the region were reviewed.

BBC Shropshire

The leader of Shropshire Council has ordered an investigation into an £80,000 grant given to the Park Hall based football Club The New Saints FC, also know as TNS.

The club says it's made good use of the cash, awarded in 2012, and the closure of the Oswestry Joint Economic board - set up to recoup and use the money - meant there was no way to pay it back.

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Peter Nutting's asked the local authority's chief executive to refer the issue to their internal auditors, which has since been carried out.

The investigation will now look at the council's process for awarding the legacy grant.

Shrewsbury boss Paul Hurst says the prospect of Wembley should motivate both Tuesday's EFL Trophy semi-finalists.

Bitterly cold temperatures and snow could cause travel delays and disruption across the West Midlands, the Met Office is warning., external

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A yellow warning is in place from 14:00 today, with an amber warning in place from 04:00 tomorrow.

BBC Weather is warning of possibly hazardous conditions in southern England later in the week as a low pressure weather system moves up from the Bay of Biscay and hits the already "exceptionally cold air".

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

A cold day with sunny spells, but also some cloud with the risk of a few snow showers pushing in from the east at times and highs of just -1C (30F).