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Leader: A welcome return home for the Olympic Torch

It could have been an anti climax. It could have been a mobile apathy zone. It could have rained.

Leader: A welcome return home for the Olympic Torch

Leader: Crimewave goes up with the mercury

The sun is out, and the crooks are smiling, as once again it gives them a unique opportunity to pay an uninvited visit to your home through that open window or the door left ajar, before walking off with some loot and leaving behind a legacy of misery.

Leader: Crimewave goes up with the mercury

Leader: Hospital parking suggestion simply nonsense

Another day another council planner telling us how to live our lives . . .

Leader: Hospital parking suggestion simply nonsense
Leader: Hit litter louts with fines and education

It is to the shame of Britain that foreign cities and landscapes are pristine and litter-free, while over here they are a litter-strewn disgrace.

Leader: Hit litter louts with fines and education

Leader – We are proud to be your local

With this week being Local Newspaper Week you would expect us to blow our own trumpet, but it is pleasing for all those who have the interests of local newspapers and the communities that they serve at heart that the Queen has shown herself to be a champion of local journalism.

Leader – We are proud to be your local

Leader – It’s not only society that needs fixing

No doubt David Cameron will see the £3.7 billion owed by absent parents in child maintenance as evidence of a broken society, but it is also evidence of a broken bureaucracy.

Leader – It’s not only society that needs fixing

Leader: Switching street lights off is a good idea

In the middle of the night, when virtually everybody is tucked up asleep, Shropshire’s street lights stay on, burning up energy and burning up money uselessly.

Leader: Switching street lights off is a good idea

Leader: Massaging jobless figures to suit political end

As today’s jobless figures are analysed and pored over for every last trend and twitch of the economy, human stories raise the question of how much faith we should put in the official figures.

Leader: Massaging jobless figures to suit political end

It’s time to reclaim our public parks

Shropshire’s parks should be places of fun and relaxation for families and children, not places where boozed-fuelled yobbery rules and drunks claim permanent ownership of the park benches.

It’s time to reclaim our public parks

Leader: Time to end the British rip-off culture

We should be doing everything in our power to help cash-strapped families during this time of recession. So it is depressing to see that Rip-off Britain is still very much alive and kicking.

Leader: Time to end the British rip-off culture

Leader: Latest chapter in Shrewsbury flax mill tale

Ditherington Flax Mill should be a jewel in the crown for Shrewsbury. Instead it has become a millstone around the town’s neck.

Leader: Latest chapter in Shrewsbury flax mill tale

Leader – The council gravy train at full steam

If you are having no luck in winning the lottery, there is a lucrative alternative – land yourself a top job on a council.

Leader – The council gravy train at full steam

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