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The drugs, including ketamine, could potentially be fatal if taken by humans, police warn.

A stunning strike from Ryan Giles delivers three opening-day points for Shrewsbury as they beat Portsmouth 1-0 in League One.

Shropshire's hospitals would welcome back Care Quality Commission inspectors "at any time", the interim chief executive of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has said - because she believes improvements are being made.

Paula Clark was responding to a critical CQC inspection report which found further failings in the two accident and emergency departments and said the trust had worked hard to recruit more staff, and had made offers to 19 more nurses.

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The leader of Telford and Wrekin Council, Shaun Davies, called the CQC report "really concerning", but welcomed the change in leadership at the trust, since the inspectors visited.

He also said he thought Paula Clark had a "fantastic reputation" and that his council would do everything it could to support her.

Police have been pulling over livestock vehicles in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, in an attempt to crack down on cattle-rustling.

The West Mercia Police force says thieves have been taking animals from farms and attempting to sell them on through livestock markets.

They're calling it "operation stop that sheep".

Officers have also been checking vehicles carrying large quantities of waste, including scrap vehicles.

BBC Weather

It should be a dry night with clear spells and lows of 12C (54F).

The family of a boy who's been to the USA to be treated for a rare form of leukaemia say his latest tests have come back clear.

A fundraising campaign raised £500,000 to send five-year-old Zac Oliver from Broseley, in Shropshire, to Philadelphia for gene-therapy.

Image source, Family photo

Initial tests, in March, suggested the therapy had worked, but he had to go back for these follow-up tests.

Which EFL clubs did you pick to be promoted this season? BBC Sport users have their say.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Some of today's stories from the Local Democracy Reporting Service include:

• Plans to reinstate a bridge over the Montgomery Canal in Shropshire have been submitted to Shropshire Council as part of a major restoration programme.
• Campaigners have vowed to continue their fight against plans to massively expand a rural community in Solihull.

• There were hundreds of reports of begging on the streets of Solihull in the first few months of the year, official figures have shown.

An archaeological dig in the grounds of Shrewsbury Castle has come to an end and the team carrying out the excavations says it now knows where the original ditch around the base of the Norman castle was.

The team, led by Dr Nigel Baker from the University of Birmingham, had been following up geophysical scans which suggested there may be some sort of structure beneath the surface and had hoped to find evidence of medieval buildings.

Image source, Shropshire Council

But Dr Baker said the 3m deep ditch they had uncovered instead was "a serious bit of Norman military architecture" and that they had "confirmed all our earlier suspicions".

The holes are now being filled in and photos have been taken, to record what they found.

Joanne Gallacher
Political reporter, BBC Shropshire

The preferred candidate to take over running the merged clinical commissioning group for Shropshire was previously in charge at the Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, but resigned after a government investigation into pay increases.

Katherine Sheerin is believed to be the person wanted for the new job, but the final sign-off is in the hands of NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens.

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Ms Sheerin quit as the chief officer of Liverpool's CCG after a review found weaknesses in governance at the organisation and the management of conflict of interests.

BBC Weather Watchers

It was a misty start for some of the BBC Weather Watchers looking at some of the pictures uploaded today.

These images were taken in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Kings Norton, and Lydbury North in Shropshire.

Image source, Snow Crystals

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Shropshire Star

Here are three of the top stories from the Shropshire Star today:

• Seventeen children left Shropshire A&E without being seen, external
• Hospital trust boss says no plans to shut Telford A&E, external
• Plea for action over Shropshire road deaths, external

Emergency departments in Shropshire are still failing to keep people safe, says the CQC.

Sara Blizzard
BBC Weather

Early cloud should break up leaving a sunny afternoon with highs of 23C (73F).

Members back the plans for a farm in Powys, despite a protester speaking out at the meeting.

Alex Hamilton
BBC Weather

Any showers should move away leaving a dry night with lows of 12C (59F).

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Here are some more stories covered by our Local Democracy Service reporters today:

• Horse grazing land in Dawley could have houses built on it, after councillors granted outline planning permission.
• A community-run shop in Tibberton, which won a Queen's Award two years ago, has been granted permanent status after years on temporary planning permission.
• Independent assessors say Wolverhampton’s troubled Civic Halls refurbishment project was not adequately managed, resulting in long delays and spiralling costs.

Council pitch grass cutter Jimmy the Mower visits home of English football after a tweet went viral.

A number of oil containers have been dumped in a field near Kemberton in Shropshire.

Oil has been seen leaking out from one of the drums and the person who took these photos, Martyn Bidgood, said Shropshire Council had been informed.

Image source, Martyn Bidgood

Image source, Martyn Bidgood