Talks have opened that could see Shrewsbury Sixth Form College take over the site of the Wakeman School when it closes next year, it was revealed today.

Shropshire’s public transport network is hit and miss at the best of times. In the middle of the night, though, it is virtually non-existent.

Shrewsbury’s Wakeman school has lost an appeal against its closure made to the schools adjudicator and will shut its doors as planned in August 2013.

Campaigners have just days left to have their say over the future of the closure-threatened Wakeman School in Shrewsbury with a consultation over the plans due to close on Friday.

Emotions ran high as hundreds of people packed into a public meeting in a last-minute attempt to save Shrewsbury’s closure-threatened Wakeman School.

Parents, carers and other people concerned about the future of the Wakeman School in Shrewsbury are being urged to attend a public meeting on Friday.

Church officials have exercised rarely-used legal powers to force the Government to review the controversial closure of a Shrewsbury secondary school.Church officials have exercised rarely-used legal powers to force the Government to review the controversial closure of a Shrewsbury secondary school.

A leading Liberal Democrat politician has backed campaigners who are attempting to save a Shrewsbury secondary school and described plans to close it as ‘idiocy’.

Staff and governors at Shrewsbury’s Wakeman School have appealed against a plan to close it.

Shrewsbury’s Wakeman School will close in August 2013, Shropshire Council decided today.

The proposed closure of the Wakeman School could put other schools in Shrewsbury under pressure as pupil numbers increase in the coming years, a Shropshire councillor has claimed.

SHROPSHIRE EDUCATION chiefs today made a fresh recommendation for a county secondary school to close, despite it celebrating record-breaking GCSE results.

The headteacher of a Shropshire secondary school with the axe hanging over it today said she hoped its record-breaking GCSE results would save it from closure.

The assistant headteacher of a Shrewsbury secondary school under threat of closure has announced she is to quit – but insisted today her decision was nothing to with the continuing doubts over its future.

Hundreds of balloons were released by pupils as part of a campaign to save Shrewsbury’s Wakeman School from closure on the day that council chiefs confirmed the axe for five other county schools.

Governors at a closure-threatened Shropshire secondary school today called for the shutdown to be scrapped, claiming council education officers had made “fundamental” errors.

Parents are to write letters to show their support for an under-threat Shrewsbury secondary school as the fight to save it continues.

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

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.

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

Headteachers, school governors and parents today voiced their anger at proposals to push ahead with plans to close schools in Shropshire – despite months of hard fought campaigns and demonstrations.

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.

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.

TEACHERS, PARENTS and pupils at an under-threat Shropshire school today marched on the Shirehall in a blaze of colour to try to put a stop to plans to close their school.

MORE THAN 7,000 people have signed petitions to save a Shropshire school after it was named on a hit-list for the axe.

Parts of an under-threat Shrewsbury school could be used to accommodate lessons for college students in a bid to prevent its closure, officials said today.

A former student of an under-threat Shropshire secondary school issued a rallying call to parents, teachers and students at a packed public meeting: “We may be a small school, but we think big”.