Shrewsbury's Wakeman School will be closed

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

Members of the council's cabinet voted to shut the school despite hearing pleas from parents, staff, and pupils, as well as councillors who argued that its strong education results should have spared it from the axe.

But the cabinet agreed with the recommendations to close the school on the grounds of sustainability in the long term.

The school is expected to post a loss of about £160,000 by the end of this financial year.

Campaigners said their battle to save the Wakeman would continue.

• Full story, reaction and analysis in Thursday's Shropshire Star