Update: 11.30 am, 1 December 2017 Severn Trent Water have been working flat out since the early hours to fix the leak at the Rocks Green Roundabout. There are around a dozen water tankers at Rocks Green and the Eco Park waiting to refill the pipes. Water should be coming out of taps anytime some. You may need to run a little through to take the greyness off the water but it will be fine immediately for washing up. Severn Trent water tankers at the Eco Park
Day: 1 December 2017
Charade of a review will close Ludlow Maternity Unit for live births – this makes a mockery of public consultation
“After this people will have no trust in public consultation.” That’s the view of Councillor Tracey Huffer after the Clinical Commissioning Groups decided to downgrade Shropshire’s rural maternity units. The plan, still subject to confirmation, is that only prenatal and postnatal services will be offered at Ludlow, Bridgnorth and Oswestry maternity units. Babies will have to be born somewhere else. As we have seen in Ludlow, that will sometimes be at home without medical support. This downgrading of rural services has been described by one medical professional as “a real and exciting opportunity”.