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Rural communities face threat
Sunday 6th April 2008, 12:01AM BST.
With 28 Shropshire post offices under threat of closure, Assistant Editor Carl Jones looks back at the last week in the Shropshire Star . . . and forward to the next in his weekly podcast.
Carl’s podcast lets you in on some of the features already planned for next week’s papers.
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This week’s ‘Sunday Supplement’ podcast also includes correspondent David Morris’s take on the threat to rural communites and Sports Editor Dave Ballinger on the fortunes of our two main football clubs, Shrewsbury Town and AFC Telford United.
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What rural communities? – There are none. Most of Shropshires rural areas are now occupied by commuters who don’t even know who their neighbours are and bereft of local shops, parish halls, community centres, family doctors, village policemen and now soon to be post offices.
Thank God I live in our little village in Cyprus where we have all of the above and at the cost of €70 (£90) a year council tax.
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