What does the future hold?

“TELFORD Council needs to be abolished as it is a damaging force to the interest of people in Shropshire”.

Not my words, but those of Shrewsbury’s Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski, who questions whether its ‘bullying’ of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals Trust boss Simon Wright played a part in his next month departure.

It comes as the trust awaits the green light for its major Future Fit reorganisation project which would see the county’s sole A&E based in Shrewsbury.

Mr Kawczynski spelt it out: “I would question whether it was the bullying and constant pressure put on [the Trust] by a medically illiterate body, that sought to overturn the Future Fit decision.”

Despite Shropshire Council’s chief rejecting it, Reflections recently pleaded that Shropshire should ‘fall in line with the rest of the UK’ where a single authority more efficiently serves a whole county.

Where are our lights?

ANOTHER month passes since we again highlighted the crazily dangerous Llynclys crossroads – with not a murmur from Highways England over our plea for traffic lights.

Drivers daily take life-changing chances to emerge from these treacherous crossroads.

Surely you shouldn’t have to take a chance and squeeze out, taking a chance no one clouts you.

All the fun of the fair

FORMER Oswestry mayor and now county councillor for Oswestry South, Paul Milner, is ‘delighted’ the annual summer Stokes Funfair has been found a new temporary base on the town’s Smithfield Street car park.

He claims it will bring business to the town but I doubt the displaced 90 or so drivers, who normally fill it, will be quite so joyful!

A good time to buy?

STRANGE things are happening with the Oswestry property market – according to home.co.uk

It claims semi-detached homes have risen a healthy five per cent in the year just ending, from £151,475 to £159,571, but detached homes have slumped a whacky 20 per cent, from an average £263,849 to a worrying £210,857!

However even that’s not as bad as a 28 per cent drop in terraced home prices, said to have dropped from an average £163,550 to a humble £118,287.

Well done to Rotary

WELL done the members of the Rotary Club in Ellesmere for opening up a ‘Pop Up Shop’ in empty premises in the town square.

They are selling second hand books and similar items bric-a-brac and will be open three or four days a week raising monies for Rotary Club charities.