Local services in crisis – Ludlow Focus
andybodders Our Special Focus for August 2013 looks at the growing crisis in local services. Click here to read it. Ludlow’s new hospital is in doubt. There is a budget shortfall…
Breathtaking Shropshire Council bungling on planning will trash fields and fail young people
Planning matters can be a little on the dull side, but bear with me a moment on this one. It really matters that Shropshire has gone from being one the…
Are second homes good or bad for Shropshire?
Sir Andrew Motion, the president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England caused something of stir last weekend by launching a salvo against second home owners in the Times. There…
Shropshire’s historic hedgerows under threat
Update: Application withdrawn on 17 January 2013 There are almost unprecedented plans to plough out 7 miles of hedgerow near Chirbury. If proposals like this are nodded through, large areas…