andybodders Emergency Numbers for Storm Eunice (and beyond)
It has been a dark and stormy night. The rivers are beginning to rise as the rain lashes down onto already sodden ground. Wind strengths are increasing. All trains in…
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…
Third solar farm planned east of the A49 Ludlow bypass – and it is huge!
Anglo Renewables is seeking to build a 49-hectare solar farm on Rock Farm, south of Rocks Green. To give an idea of the scale of this proposal, if it was…
Covid Watch 176: Omicron cases at last fall locally and nationally after double peaks in January
The good news is that infection rates have been falling rapidly across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. A surge in infections followed the arrival of the highly transmissible Omicron variant…
Big Bang Shrewsbury redevelopment plans are too risky – the council should move to the Guildhall
It is the stuff of dreams. It is also the stuff of nightmares. A radical redevelopment of Shrewsbury town centre between Pride Hill and the River Severn is expected to…