It’s all very well people campaigning to prevent long-closed pubs from being converted into housing, as with The Swan, at Frodesley, but lack of customers forced their local hostelries to shut, as recently with the Bottle & Glass, in Picklescott, and hundreds of others, more’s the pity.

What a country we are living in, bankers stripped of their Knighthoods, bankers made to pay their bonuses back and in an industry that creates massive wealth for our country.

Telford & Wrekin Council has announced that it was pulling out of a joint agreement with Shropshire Council to provide high speed broadband to the rural area of Telford.

My friend Dave Barnett, like many, seems to have absorbed the official politicians’ line that war, while evil, is inevitable.

Like ML Francis, I was enraged when I read about Councillor Davies and his plans to provide the estate of Brookside with free wifi.

When setting up my e-petition last November as an attempt to persuade Shropshire Council to reinstate kerbside collections of cardboard, my only motivation was to prevent the cardboard from being sent to landfill.

Capitalism does not work when the rich are too rich and the man in the street is too strapped for cash that he cannot buy what he needs; the new carpet, the new suite, cannot afford leisure and cultural trips and holidays etc.

I have followed with interest the arguments for the proposed high-speed train service between Birmingham and London.

When I had some service behind me in the Army, newer soldiers would sometimes ask my Army number to compare with theirs.

Youth unemployment will continue to rise year on year unless we rebuild consumer confidence and get people back on to our high streets.

Would someone answer my questions about the speed of the high-speed rail link?

Please, please, please can some members of our society stop trying to blame badgers for everything.