Officials at Shrewsbury’s Wakeman School today said they would launch a legal challenge to save it – 24 hours after Shropshire Council agreed its closure.

Campaigners hoping to save the Wakeman School have pledged to appeal against any decision to close it.

Parents and supporters of closure-threatened schools in Shropshire today said they were disgusted and appalled that councillors were refusing to give them more time to save them.

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

Petitions containing thousands of signatures calling for five schools in Shropshire to be saved from the axe have prompted a special debate at the county’s Shirehall next week.

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.

CAMPAIGNERS WILL be taking the fight to save Shropshire schools to the Shirehall when they deliver petitions opposing the closure proposals.

SHROPSHIRE EDUCATION chiefs have received more than 700 responses from the public over controversial plans to close nine county schools – amid claims they are struggling to cope with the backlash.

The decision to keep the Wakeman School open is “too important” to be judged by Shropshire Council’s cabinet, it has been claimed.

Shropshire education chiefs visited Shrewsbury’s closure-threatened Wakeman School & Arts College as part of the ongoing consultation about cuts to services. Reporter Sam Pinnington tweeted regular updates from the meeting.

Shrewsbury’s under-threat Wakeman School will be lit up for the second time in a week tomorrow night as county education chiefs arrive for an important meeting.