Crunch talks over risk from storms flooding in Shropshire

It has been called after residents on Church Stretton's Battlefield estate found streets covered in gravel from country lanes following major storms earlier this month.

And in Craven Arms, Shropshire councillor David Evans was forced to become a temporary marshal directing traffic in waders after water gathered under the town's railway bridge on Clun Road, one of the town's busiest junctions.

Fellow Shropshire councillor Lee Chapman said he and mayor of Church Stretton Tom Beaumont would be meeting highways, rights of way and flooding officers from Shirehall on Friday to discuss the problems.

The meeting follows severe flooding over the summer in the Cleobury Mortimer area which saw a bridge across the River Rea swept away and a nearby caravan park hit by major floods which caused another bridge to collapse and left elderly residents fearing they would need to be evacuated from their homes.