Letter: We must be soft in the head in Wales. While North Powys had 103 wind turbines about 150 feet in height at Llandinam in the mid-90s, Shropshire, just across Offa’s Dyke did not have a single wind turbine.

Letter: It was with heavy heart that I read that there will be no Toy Run this year due to police cuts.

Blog: For a politician, there is something to be said for leaking a policy announcement or speech in advance.

Letter: Telford & Wrekin Council now faces a cut of £35 million. Cutting councillor numbers to 22 would save £224,000 per year and this is a saving that has been dodged for too long.

Letter: As a member of the Shropshire People’s Panel I received from the customer insight team at Abbey Foregate a questionnaire concerning the council’s joint housing strategy.

Blog: Talking about an ailing economy, recession, cutbacks, and job losses, is not exactly the sort of thing that would go down well at the Conservative Party conference, so George Osborne has pulled a rabbit out of the hat with a crowd-pleaser.

Blog: It takes a lot to make me react first thing in the morning, writes Thom Kennedy.

Blog: The dispute between workers and bosses at Shropshire Council was always going to be resolved by talks – it was just a question of timing.

Letter: Mark Pritchard, MP for Wrekin and secretary of the Tories’ powerful 1922 Committee certainly told the truth on September 20.

Letter: Congratulations, Councillor Mike Walker, of Church Stretton Town Council, for introducing Shropshire’s first pilot scheme to turn the street lights off to save cash and carbon emissions.

Letter: I was interested to read the article ‘Parking on pavements sparks fury’. This is an issue that has been driving me mad.

It is a complete and utter outrage that our Government sends millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money in overseas aid, yet thousands of British elderly folk die of the cold each winter.