WHO’S firmly behind Marches School - in the controversial ‘skirtgate’ issue? A 14 year-old pupil was warned before half-term her skirt was not only too short, but broke school rules.

After half-term - as mum was claiming the pleated skirt was ‘smart’ - she pulled her out of school after continued use of it threatened the pupil with ‘isolation’. It’s nothing to do with any question of smartness, but of following school rules. They clearly state skirts must be a maximum two centimetres above the knee. End of discussion!

A diversifying council?

SHROPSHIRE Council is NOW planning to build and sell houses to make money - as part of its efforts to tackle a financial ‘black hole’. It’s suggesting this measure will help crack its financial deficit.

Remember it bought three Shrewsbury shopping centres for £55m, which it reckons will yield £2.7m annually. So that means it should start making a profit on the purchase by 2038, when shops will probably have been replaced by online shopping!

You’ve been warned!

PATIENTS take note - or be fined! A severe warning has been issued by the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust to say it will withhold non-life threatening or routine treatment ‘if patients behave anti-socially’. While those giving physical abuse could even face prosecution.

It matches an Oswestry chemist’s counter note ‘abuse will not be tolerated’. You’ve been warned!

It’s snow-joke!

THE gritter gangs had a hopeless task in last week’s fierce blizzard - but the Oswestry News and Gossip site posted a sour Facebook note. ‘Followed a gritter lorry tonight from Morda to Oswestry, and around town with lights flashing... then it dawned on me, it wasn’t dropping grit off and the plough wasn’t lowered... Every road it passed was covered in snow, and not one bit of grit was dropped. Was it showing people they were around and doing their job?’

Extra £40 to your bill

FOLKS in Shropshire have next year been threatened with an annual £40 bill to have their ‘green waste’ collected. It would attract an extra £1.5m but cannot be done this year as Shropshire’s tied into a Veolia contract. The council leader says: ‘We will only do it if it is sensible to do it.’ Well it isn’t Peter Nutting - as I along with others - will simply run it down Maesbury Road and overwhelm our ‘wonderful’ recycling centre!

Tr...come again?!

FINALLY Oswestry Skip Hire - in spelling out the areas it covers - comes up with a unique spelling for Trefonen. Tref in Welsh means town and ‘onen’ can either be a tree or a Jewish word for a person in mourning.

The skip hire company’s odd spelling of ‘Tryfonnen’ is something quite out of this world.