Watch: Shropshire Star's expert panel discuss the UK Budget 2016

For the first time the Shropshire Star held a live video discussion with business experts over George Osborne's 2016 budget and how it will affect the county - and you can see what happened here.

Chaired by business editor Thom Kennedy, the discussion took place almost immediately after the end of the budget statement live on Periscope.

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Francesca Hutcheson, a senior tax consultant at Whittingham Riddell Chartered Accountants in Shrewsbury, Nick Jones of Nick Jones Wealth Planning, a senior partner practice of St. James's Place Wealth Management in Shrewsbury and Richard Sheehan, chief executive of Shropshire Chamber of Commerce all took part in the debate.

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