The Shropshire Council school closures meeting took place at the Shrewsbury Room in Shirehall today.

Read Shropshire Star reporter Sam Pinnington’s live updates as the news came through from the meeting.

Shropshire education chiefs are meeting today to discuss plans to close five county schools.

The schools, including Shrewsbury’s Wakeman secondary school, have mounted fierce campaigns to stay open, but the final decision on their fate is due to be made today.

Education officers at Shropshire Council are pushing forward with a hitlist of schools they say must close in order to tackle issues such as empty classroom spaces and a lack of pupil funding.

The plans would also see the primary schools at Hopton Wafers in Cleobury Mortimer, Maesbury, near Oswestry, Barrow, near Much Wenlock, and Stiperstones, near Shrewsbury, close next year.

However, officials are recommending that a decision should be deferred on closing Onny and Lydbury North Primary Schools to investigate proposals of them becoming a federation.

And they also say that a decision to create an all-through school at Rhyn Park at St Martins near Oswestry, affecting Ifton Heath Primary School, should be put off to work through detail.

The Wakeman School in Shrewsbury faces closure at the end of the academic year in July 2013.