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Comment on New look of Shrewsbury town centre revealed by Caz

Caz — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:36:07 +0000

Won’t they just!

Comment on Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville snubbed over appearance fees by Davey

Davey — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:31:29 +0000

And let’s not forget that our own Golden Bear has contracted the manufacture of souvenir mascots to a Chinese sweatshop.
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/01/21/golden-bear-in-sweat-shop-row/

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Comment on More snow on way to Shropshire, say forecasters by merc

merc — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:13:57 +0000

“Thatcher’s Glorious Legacy – “There is no such thing as society”. Despicable and hateful woman, and I for one will be tramping the dirt down. And next we’ll have Cameron’s Big Bankrupt Society when it really will be every man for themselves, as indeed we are beginning to see”
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I can live with my politics…and society and future generations, I presume, are going to have to live with yours…mine are better

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Comment on The Castle Tea Room, Ludlow by Port Hill Boy

Port Hill Boy — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:10:04 +0000

Sorry Rocky, I have been to the tea rooms!
It’s not them I was criticising it was the ever-so-predictable hyperbole of the reviewer.
Can you say where Shropshire’s sultanas are grown?

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Comment on New look of Shrewsbury town centre revealed by Port Hill Boy

Port Hill Boy — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:34 +0000

Don’t be naive.

Most of the construction supplies will be bought from elsewhere. It will be large construction companies that get the main contracts and they have centraliosed purchasing.

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Comment on People power sparks Telford speed cameras move by Drone

Drone — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:40:38 +0000

Can we have that last “sentence” translated into English please?

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Comment on People power sparks Telford speed cameras move by Drone

Drone — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:38:18 +0000

“Mobile cameras literally print money” ??!!! I gots to get me one of those!

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Comment on Trapped! Shoppers stuck on car park for hours in snow by Annabel

Annabel — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:35:09 +0000

I was caught up in all this chaos, I had not been to the retail park, but was just trying to make my way home after work!
The main trouble was not infact actually in the retail park, but was total traffic chaos all in the area. I drove straight past the retail aprk and thats when my problems began. It took me 1.5 hours jsut to go half way around the roundabout at the bottom, another to get to my exit heading on up to Ketley, 2 Hours just to get from there to the traffic lights by Ketley Cod.
I dont think the retail park or Tesco should be to blame, more people who didnt need to co out going out and people not knowing how to drive in these conditions and driving dangerously!

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Comment on Leader: Sixty glorious years of much-loved Queen by guardian

guardian — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:21:21 +0000

Speak for yourself, she is not much loved.

I do think as an individual she does work hard and do her job well, but the point is her job should not exist and if it must then it should be an elected position

its called democracy, modernity, justice and the right thing to do, if you want to elect her fine, but their must be a vote, my grandfather died in a ditch for that and we MUST elect her out of principle period, its not acceptable any other way

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Comment on More snow on way to Shropshire, say forecasters by Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:17:08 +0000

Yep, had none in Shrewsbury so far.

Welshpool, however, is in Powys, Merc, not Shropshire.

Your geography’s on a par with you politics.

Hahahahhahha

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Comment on Letter: Nonsense on climate change by Andy

Andy — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:03:48 +0000

Aaah, the daily mail…

A quality paper: absorbent, strong and very, very long…

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Comment on Letter: Nonsense on climate change by The Original Jake

The Original Jake — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:23:42 +0000

It was actually predicted long ago that global warming could cause the permanent depression over Siberia to shift slightly west, causing temperatures in Northern Europe to drop. I don’t know whether that’s happening, but the point is that global warming does not mean that the temperature at every point on the planet increases.

Incidentally, the Met Office figures state that UK temperatures have flatlined, they haven’t been falling. The Met Office also points out that the global average temperature has risen since 1997, an observation which has been corroborated by two other major data sets.

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Comment on More snow on way to Shropshire, say forecasters by Conor Edwards

Conor Edwards — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:21:44 +0000

Conditions look worse in South & Eastern most parts of the region with light rain later this afternoon turning to freezing rain later this evening and then to snow after midnight with snow carrying on until 9am for many of us.
No problems this afternoon though with temperatures hovering around 1c and only drizzle/spits & spots of sleety rain.

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Comment on Trapped! Shoppers stuck on car park for hours in snow by Make mine a double

Make mine a double — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:17:55 +0000

There’s no publicity like self-publicity :-)

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Comment on Boyne Arms, Burwarton by David

David — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:06:50 +0000

I am a very fussy eater, but have eaten here on numerous occasions and have found the food and atmosphere fantastic each time. I hope the readers of this article try the Boyne for themselves rather than take one womans opinion, based on a dodgy pie top, as fact!

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Comment on Letter: Days of having drink in a rural pub are over by Brummie Shrew

Brummie Shrew — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:01:17 +0000

As mentioned previously, the fact that the majority have nt as much disposable income as say 5 years ago, certainly is a key factor is Pub Closures (we now very rarely eat out)

However it is also the case that some Pubs are simply not very good; poor produce and poor service. Some seem to think every business that goes to the wall is fantastic, when the facts are, the owners should never have been in business in the first place.

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Comment on New look of Shrewsbury town centre revealed by G

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:59:36 +0000

What!!!!
“impose these bwoody shopping arcades”
Nope, 3 existing centres turned into one tidy centre with a decent frontage to the river which is one of the towns main assets.

“There’s nothing wrong with a bit of scruff. It’s called urban richness”
Nope, it’s called scruff 7 I for one prefer tidy…

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Comment on People power sparks Telford speed cameras move by pete

pete — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:57:35 +0000

Responsible drivers’ don’t speed where there is an issue of safety it is the permanent structure of the highway that needs to change something this Labour co-op doesn’t understand ,fining drivers won’t stop the accident when it happens.Its the children you have to think about a measure that’s here one minute then gone the next is pathetic.

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Comment on Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace looks better than ever in 3D by Dan

Dan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:52:58 +0000

There aren’t plot holes and a bad storyline. It has a really good storyline. Maybe a couple of the roles were miscast. Mostly people just don’t like new versions of old classics.

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Comment on Letter: Nonsense on climate change by julian

julian — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:49:59 +0000

You are right, human sources of CO2 are smaller than natural CO2, but the ocean and biosphere can only absorb so much. For however many million years there has been a fairly steady equilibrium, interrupted by periods of abnormal volcanic activity, meteorite strikes, etc, which probably caused mini ice ages and periods of warmth that would wreak havoc on modern day farming, same as it did back then. But today the man made CO2 is tipping the balance as we can see from the atmospheric concentrations going up and up. We may run out of carbon before we reach the tipping point. We may not. Question is, do you feel lucky?

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