One of the ambitions of local cycling and walking infrastructure plans is to reduce traffic in residential neighbourhoods. Shropshire Council has suggested three low traffic neighbourhoods for Ludlow: St Julians Avenue and Livesey Road Steventon New Road Temeside between Weeping Cross and Steventon New Road. It has also floated the idea of closing Foldgate Lane […]
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I asked a chat bot about Ludlow, it wrote a poem, and how to pronounce Shrewsbury
Finally, a debate is settled, or probably not. Shrews-bury or Shrows-bury? Development of artificial intelligence has been underway for decades. From primitive beginnings, it has been growing in power and in “humanness”. Contact your bank or your council and in many cases, you’ll be talking to AI by voice or online. But no one thinks […]
Temporary website
This site looks a little different. The site’s control panel crashed on 1 October. People could initially read posts but I couldn’t post new posts up. Think of it like a car without an engine. I found out the fault but couldn’t work out to fix it. While I was experimenting, I crashed the entire […]
Hang on to your wheelie bins – Eunice is about to storm Shropshire
It has been a very windy winter, with reports suggesting that 8 million trees have been blown down this winter so far. There will be a few more down by midday tomorrow, probably very many more. There is an Amber Warning of high winds in Shropshire from 3am tomorrow until 9pm in the evening. The […]
Shropshire councillors warned not to make political announcements during council meetings or adjust their trousers
The legals at Shropshire Council have accepted my complaint that manifesto commitments must not be announced during council meetings. That is a long standing rule but the Tories decided to announce their manifesto commitment to highways at the Place Overview Committee on Tuesday. There was a bit of argy-bargy with the Chief Monitoring Officer who […]