CAMPAIGNERS AT Shrewsbury’s Wakeman School have today vowed to fight until the bitter end to save it from closure.

Hundreds of protesters packed into a mid Wales school to air views over planned changes to sixth form education. Three rooms were used to hold the 700 people who attended the meeting in Llanfyllin High School.

AN 11TH-HOUR lifeline has been thrown to five Shropshire schools facing closure.

Shropshire education chiefs have today voted unanimously to close Shrewsbury’s Wakeman School.

Protesters today marched on Shirehall in a last-ditch bid to convince Shropshire education chiefs to save five county schools from closure.

An independent policy officer today accused Shropshire Council of breaching government guidelines in its attempt to close a county secondary school.

Campaigners fighting to save closure-threatened schools across the county have today spoken of their “shock” and “sadness” after it was revealed a number of headteachers across the UK are earning in excess of £100,000.

Teachers and students at a Wellington college today held a protest against planned compulsory redundancies.

A sledgehammer blow was today delivered to a number of schools across Shropshire after the latest proposals to overhaul the county’s education system were released.

A Shropshire MP is to present a fresh bid for fairer funding for county schools to Education Secretary Michael Gove.

Plans to close Shrewsbury’s Wakeman School will result in a £1 million plus windfall for town schools which will receive extra funding for their pupils, Shropshire Council says.

EDUCATION CHIEFS will have to spend £35m on building a new school in Shrewsbury within the next 10 years if they go ahead with cost-cutting plans to close the town’s Wakeman school, a governor claimed today.