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Carlisle United have signed Shrewsbury Town midfielder Harrison Biggins on loan until the end of the season.

Biggins, 28, left last season's beaten League Two play-off semi-finalists Doncaster to become one of the first of Town's 13 summer signings in June.

But it has not worked out as expected for Biggins, son of former Burnley striker Wayne Biggins, and Shrewsbury, who sit bottom of League One - and boss Paul Hurst has opted to move him on, with an option to recall in January.

"It's something that's come very out of the blue in truth," said Hurst.

"With some of the players we've brought in recently and looking at the whole picture, we felt that Harrison's starting options looked like they were going to be difficult to come by.

"We had a call from Carlisle expressing their interest, so I had a conversation with Harrison.

"He's still our player and certainly could have stayed if he wanted to, but he may not feel he's had the best start to his Shrewsbury career and I cannot criticise a player who wants to go and play games.

"We shook hands and I wish him well. He's still our player and we'll be monitoring him closely and seeing how he gets on."

Shrewsbury have apologised to fans that there is an extended player feature interview with Biggins in Saturday's match programme for the Leyton Orient home game.

"The programme was sent to print as per our usual deadlines. However, the transfer materialised long after that print deadline. We apologise for the unfortunate timing of this," said a club statement.

Carlisle, who host Tranmere on Saturday, have won just one of their opening three league games this season.