Stadium gets seats

This picture shows the first seats being installed at Shrewsbury Town's nearly complete £15 million new stadium.

Construction workers are busy putting the final touches to the New Meadow stadium, which is due to be fully open in time for the start of next season.

The metal seat bases were installed at the ground in Oteley Road last week and the seats themselves started going in yesterday.

All 10,000 blue and amber coloured seats are expected to be complete by the end of next week. The first batch of seats are being installed in the west stand - or Railway End - followed by the south stand.

Hall Construction Services is moving towards the final phase at the ground, with the main structure, pitch and floodlights all now in place.

A spokesman for the club said: "The seats started going in yesterday and we already have more than 300 in place . . . There is a special machine which can install up to 1,000 seats a day so we are not expecting it to take too long. They should be all in by the end of next week."