Shropshire councillors today agreed to close five primary schools.

A Shropshire school facing the axe under a shake-up of county education today said it was finalising plans to federate with a nearby school in a last- ditch attempt to save it from closure.

Governors at an under-threat Shropshire school today said they would apply for academy status in a bid to save it from the axe.

An action group has been resurrected to lead the fight to save a primary school on the Shropshire/Mid Wales border from closure.

Hundreds of parents will stage a protest walk in a Shropshire village on Wednesday in a bid to prove their claims that a school merger plan is unworkable and unsafe.

Secondary schools and sixth forms in Mid Wales facing a massive shake-up will have to wait until autumn to learn their fate.

Governors at a Mid Wales school saved from threat of the axe have hit out at Powys County Council, saying consultation to close it was a waste of time and money.

Campaigners fighting to save Welshpool High School’s sixth form from closure were today handing out hundreds of car stickers to drum up support.

Shropshire councillors today rejected moves to defer a decision to close The Wakeman secondary school in Shrewsbury when they met at Shirehall.

More than 400 concerned parents, pupils, governors and teachers attended a crunch consultation meeting over the future of secondary education in Powys.

Bosses at Shrewsbury’s Wakeman School today claimed their latest Ofsted report had been ignored by council chiefs in a bid to press ahead with the school’s closure.

Pupils at St Martins’ Rhyn Park School, near Oswestry, are opening their classrooms up to protesters against plans to merge their secondary school with the village primary school.