Shropshire Council will trial evening meetings to help its working councillors.

The motion, which will move some of the authority's meetings' start times to 6pm, was passed at a meeting of the full council today (Thursday, December 11).

Under the plan some scrutiny committees and other meetings will move to the later start times.

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Currently the council's meetings take place between 9am and 5pm.

The proposal, which was put forward by a cross-party group of councillors, will be reviewed after 12 months.

Conservative group leader Dan Thomas, who represents Much Wenlock , introduced the motion, saying the current arrangements act

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