Council Cuts: Shropshire Council to charge £52 a year for green bin collections
Cash strapped Shropshire Council has agreed to start charging for collecting garden and food waste in the green bin. It estimates this will bring in £4 million a year. The…
Council Cuts: Two out of five household recycling centres are to close – Craven Arms threatened
Shropshire Council is to close two of the five household recycling centres (HRCs) in the unitary area. It’s not looking good for our local HRC on Stokewood Road, Craven Arms,…
Shropshire Council was warned about the state of the Tollgate play area three months ago
A temporary repair has now been put in place for the fencing on the Tollgate play area which blew down last October. I raised the lack of repairs at Shropshire…
The leaning phone box of Ludlow was becoming an attraction but it is now fixed
At around 7am yesterday morning, a reversing delivery truck from a convenience store struck a glancing blow to the BT telephone booth on the corner of Upper Galdeford, Lower Galdeford…
Brown and Francis (Peak) pharmacy will be taken over by Lunts
This is not unexpected news. Brown and Francis is too small a store to thrive in an age where pharmacies are underfunded by government and the range of services pharmacies…