Tories celebrate three major wins

The Conservatives have gained three seats in Shropshire taking two from Labour and one from the Lib Dems.

In The Wrekin, Labour's Peter Bradley lost his seat to Mark Pritchard by just under 1,000 votes.

While in Shrewsbury and Atcham, Daniel Kawczynski will replace Labour's Mike Ion. He polled 18,960 of the votes gaining a majority of 3%.

In Ludlow, Philip Dunne polled 20,979 of the votes replacing the Lib Dems Matthew Green.

"It is a very strong performance in this part of the country, but I am pleased to say we have three new Conservative MPs for Shropshire which makes four out of five", Philip Dunne said.

"I am absolutely delighted by the success we have had in Shropshire and look forward to repeating it in the county council elections."

Labour's David Wright held on to Telford with a reduced majority and the Conservative's Owen Paterson held on to Shropshire North, almost doubling his majority to 11,000.