IN THE first of today’s ‘Weston village’ double header, it’s well over a year since the hamlet got its bid approved for a 30mph limit. But only now, at long last, has it appeared on Shropshire’s ‘jobs to do’ list – complete with a twist at the end of the announcement.

‘South of Oswestry, between Morda and Maesbury Road Industrial Estate, extension of speed limit with signs and lines... including Gateway signs at village boundaries’!

Though still hugely welcome by the long suffering rat-run residents, how sad it is that this is the ONLY road improvement ‘job to do’ – in the whole Oswestry area!

Railway plans on track

IT WAS just one small step for Cambrian Heritage Railways, but a giant leap for the volunteer group that made it happen.

But it proved ‘lucky July 13’ when a steam train passed under the Salop Road gasworks bridge – if only for a few hundred yards. It was the culmination of hours and hours of hard slog and Parliamentary permission. Now the group has its eyes firmly fixed on its first proper run to the Stonehouse brewery and distillery in tiny Weston for a well-earned celebration.

Time for you to tune in!

DO YOU live in Shropshire but are more interested in the more regional TV news from Wales, like me – or do you live in Powys and want Shropshire’s regional news? Well it’s perfectly possible to do both!

The simplest way, if you watch in ‘Freeview’, is to reset your TV and enter a genuine postcode from the country of your choice or better still screw up a satellite dish and get free of charge FreeSat. Then, and only then, in your own house, you can watch any region’s TV in the UK!

Unnecessary force?

OH DEAR, what a calamity, two Shropshire bobbies have been disciplined with written warnings for using a spray gun on a Baschurch man – while he sat on the lavatory! They sprayed the man a second time, as he walked barefoot to their police van.

It happened a full year ago on July 20, after police heard he had threatened to kill a family member. One received a final written warning and the other a 12-month written one.

Room with a view...

IT JUST looks like a sharp knife has sliced a house apart at the right-angle bend in Oswestry’s Roft Street. We can only presume it is tidying up exercise, on the rear, for a fresh extension to be grafted on. Until then you can admire the wallpaper!

TfW needs to listen

BETTER days are ahead, reckons Transport for Wales.

But it’s a brave bid to balance out the tsunami of crushing grumbles over grossly overloaded two-carriage trains. TfW is paying the price for dismissing early calls to hire carriages – while old Arriva ones get updated.