Ambitious £120 million dream for Shropshire Highways (updated)
Update: Shropshire Council has agreed to persue this strategy. Do highways chiefs dream of tarmac sheep? There is certainly a lot of dreaming going on in Shirehall. In the May…
Using Fix My Street to report Shropshire highways and other problems
Shropshire Council is lagging other councils on highways fault reporting. The online reporting system is clunky. It can be difficult to describe where the fault is especially in rural areas…
Covid Watch 152: Fewer than one third of local people want all covid restrictions to end on 19 July
The results of my straw poll are in. Just three in ten people want all restrictions lifted next Monday. Sajid Javid and Boris Johnson yesterday announced they are sticking to…
Covid Watch 150: Vaxxers – The Inside Story of the Oxford Vaccine
Having published 150 blog posts on coronavirus since March 2020, and as a recipient of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, I was eagerly looking forward to the publication of this book.…
Decent highways for Shropshire? Are you kidding?
It’s Wimbledon. Surrounded by screens I am watching a couple of games at once. John McEnroe is commenting. He is famous of course for his comments on court. “You can’t…