Today, Shropshire Wildlife Trust (SWT) carried out its plans to fell an oak tree on Whitcliffe Common. The trust has reacted poorly throughout an affair that has divided our town. We need to learn the lessons from this. For this oak tree, and the wildlife that sheltered in it, it is over. It has been felled. […]
Day: 24 January 2017
Our fear is that Ludlow independent shops will fold, says my letter in today’s Times
The Times has run a series of articles highlighting the harm that rises in rateable values and business rates will cause rural businesses. Yesterday, the newspaper had a first page headline: “Punitive business rates threaten rural way of life.” I am sure there were a lot of responses and four of us were lucky enough […]