Letter; Time for action if we want to keep the ShropDoc service

Your pages and website have all been given to the widespread concerns about the new telephone number for health NHS 111.

Letter: Ukip’s success opens up broader picture

Leader of UKIP Nigel Farage, on the local campaign trail

Ukip’s success in local elections is having a wonderful effect in highlighting the uncomfortable truth that our mainstream parties have quietly surrendered our sovereignty to the detriment of many of their own voters.

Letter: Keeping track of councillors’ promises and failures is easy

Want local government and democracy improved? Expect your local councillors to be held to account?

Letter: Spare a thought for people battling with the effects of ME

This Sunday, May 12 is international ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia awareness day.

Letter: The public wants out of the EU

Well, it looks like the circus has come to town. The fact that David Cameron and his upper-crust cronies have labelled Ukip candidates ‘clowns and fruitcakes’ has come back to haunt them in a big big way.

Letter: Shrewsbury visit turned out to be a fantastic experience

A close-up view of Shrewsbury quarry, home to the annual flower show. The picture also shows St Chad’s Church, centre, Shrewsbury swimming pool to the left, the market hall centre right, and the bars and restaurants near Welsh Bridge

What a wonderful few days my wife and I spent in Shrewsbury recently, which is a lovely town in every way.

Letter: Now is time to bring elections up to date

The idea that young people should be forced to vote or be fined completely misses the point.

Letter: Savings from City cuts should be invested in Shropshire’s future

It is unrealistic to think that cutbacks in the public sector will effect different parts of the country equally.

Letter: EU faces bankruptcy but we keep paying

Parliament reports that more than £4 billion of taxpayer’s cash is disappearing from the EU budget every year because of fraud.

Letter: Brookside centre is an eyesore not the whole estate

I have to take issue with the Shropshire Star’s headline “Demolition of eyesore Telford estate is to start” (April 26).

Letter: Visit to hometown Madeley proves to be a massive disappointment

Being a Madeley girl born and bred but now an expat living in Ontario Canada, I recently came back to visit relatives and the ‘old’ Madeley and the surrounding areas.

Letter: Post Office current account was way ahead of the field

There is talk of the Post Office introducing a bank current account. It has been tried, and was so successful it was privatised.

Letter: Concern at Shrewsbury Lord Hill Column

The Lord Hill statue in Shrewsbury has a structural inspection after it was hit by strong winds

In St George’s Day week, it seems fit to comment on the statue of Lord Hill who served England and Britain so well during the Napoleonic Wars, including the Peninsula Campaign and the Battle of Waterloo.

Letter: Potholes need to be repaired properly

I have just seen two signs informing of forthcoming ‘surface dressing’ work on the A449 near Cookley and the B4176 near Swindon.

Letter: Wish I had joined the battle to save Newport from developers

I have been following the “Save Newport” campaign with interest and wish that I had perhaps been more vociferous when I was resident in Newport. It was a very different town back then.

Letter: Trade unions’ work practices played into hands of Thatcher

Fomer Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will be laid to rest with a televised ceremonial funeral which will take place at St Paul’s Cathedral

It was interesting to read the letters from Peter Sayles and Martin Eddies, who effectively claim that MrsThatcher damaged our industries.

Letter: We needed courage of grocer’s daughter

I had and always will have great admiration for the grocer’s daughter from Grantham who, as our Prime Minister, took on the huge task of changing the face of our nation which had become so depressed, together with strikes in many aspects, during the 70s.

Letter: Get facts straight on sheep situation

Sheep farmer Malcolm Roberts, from Maesbury, has lost dozens of sheep due to the recent wintry weather

Animal welfare is always a farming priority and I would urge Susan Bulley, ‘No Care for sheep’, (Letters April 16) to please have some care for facts.