Shropshire Council has threatened Shropshire councillors with police action if we reveal details of a potentially illegal payment to a football club. That is too much for me to stomach. I want to know why a former councillor leader approved a grant to his favourite football team. I want to know why repayments of that […]
Day: 13 July 2018
Philip Dunne’s intervention in the Commons on Mortimer Forest cabins could kill the scheme
The row over the proposed development of 68 holiday cabins in the Mortimer Forest shows no sign of going away. A planning application was expected in June but we have yet to see it. I wasn’t planning to write on this again until that application was submitted. But the intervention yesterday of our MP, Philip […]
It’s a heatwave, so let’s talk about snow
In the middle of a prolonged hot spell, snow is not on many people’s minds. But it was on the mind of Shropshire Council’s Place Overview committee yesterday when it met to discuss how the council responds to snow emergencies. Among the plans are a pilot snow warden scheme. I began calling for snow wardens […]