Montgomeryshire news


Independents are winners in Montgomeryshire

The Independents were the runaway winners in Montgomeryshire at the Powys County Council elections, winning 14 of the 20 seats up for grabs.


Coalition faces big election test

Voters are expected to dish out a mid-term bruising to the Westminster coalition parties today at the polls.


MP to meet council chiefs over Welshpool road complaints

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies is to meet with Powys County Council bosses after receiving a ‘huge amount’ of complaints about Welshpool’s one-way system.


Ex-water chief wants Wales to profit from sale to England

A former head of Welsh Water has claimed Wales should profit from transferring water to England.


Lembit Opik urges Nick Clegg to quit Lib Dem top job

Nick Clegg should quit as Liberal Democrat leader by the end of next year but stay on as Deputy Prime Minister, former Montgomeryshire MP Lembit Opik said today.


Former Montgomershire MP dies after long illness, aged 86

Tributes have been paid to Liberal Democrat peer and former Montgomeryshire MP Lord Emlyn Hooson who has died aged 86.


Traffic concern campaigners to meet MPs

Campaigners from the newly-formed Llanymynech and Pant Bypass Action Group, which is calling for a new bypass, have set up a meeting next month with two MPs to discuss their traffic worries.


Shrewsbury MP earns £3,000 for eight hours work

Overseas visits, punditry and business dealings have all been declared by MPs in the House of Commons’ Register of Members’ Financial Interests.


Big Ben card bridges MPs’ political divisions

Three MPs from Shropshire and Mid Wales have opted for the same festive design on their Christmas cards this year.


Fears power plans will destroy region

Plans which could see hundreds of pylons built across Shropshire and Mid Wales will totally destroy the economy, it has been claimed.


Best wishes for Noreen Lloyd as she turns 108

A Mid Wales woman who was a pioneering farmer during and after World War Two has celebrated her 108th birthday.


Letter: Shropshire, windfarms and hypocrisy

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.


Campaigners lobby Carwyn Jones on castle visit

More than a dozen protesters attempted to lobby Wales First Minister Carwyn Jones at one of Powys’ biggest tourist attractions.


Lembit Opik compares himself to Nelson Mandela

Former Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik went on to the offensive after being routed in the London Mayoral election – comparing himself to Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela and claiming he would stage an Arnold Schwarzenegger-style comeback.


Glyn Davies MP backs free vote on hunting ban

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies has backed a call by the Welsh Conservatives assembly leader for the Commons to hold a free vote on overturning the hunting ban.


Plea for action over hourly train service on Cambrian Line

Campaigners fighting to get the operators of a Shropshire and Mid Wales railway line to run an hourly service have called on government officials to act.


Newtown ‘ghost town’ warning as stores shut

Newtown could become a “ghost town” if more is not done to support businesses, it was said today. The warning came amid claims shops are continuing to shut because owners can no longer afford to keep going.


Boy, 2, takes bus trip alone from Montgomery to Shrewsbury

A two year-old boy sparked a cross-border alert after deciding to take a bus trip on his own from Montgomery to Shrewsbury.


MP Glyn Davies to highlight pylons plan concerns

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies will lead a debate in Parliament next week over plans which could see hundreds of pylons built across Shropshire and Mid Wales.


Pylons protesters will lobby Welsh Assembly

Thousands of campaigners fighting to halt plans that could see hundreds of pylons built across Shropshire and Mid Wales will descend on Cardiff next month to lobby politicians.


Welspool public meeting called by MP in pylon fight

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies will stage a public meeting this month to discuss plans which could see hundreds of huge pylons built through villages in Shropshire and Mid Wales.


Lembit Opik received £42,000 golden handshake

Former Montgomeryshire MP Lembit Opik received a £42,000 golden handshake after being ejected from his constituency by voters, it was revealed today.


Shropshire chaos as rail strike by drivers continues

Strike action by train drivers serving Shropshire and Mid Wales over pay was continuing today.


Fears over Mid Wales maternity care

Expectant mothers in Mid Wales will have to travel further if maternity services are moved from Shrewsbury to Telford, an MP has warned. Glyn Davies said the proposals were causing “huge concern”.


2012 date for Welshpool kidney dialysis unit

A permanent kidney dialysis unit will be ready to open in Welshpool in 2012, it was revealed today.


Mick Bates fined over paramedic assaults

Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates was today ordered to pay more than £5,000 after being convicted of assaulting two paramedics and a staff nurse following a night out in Cardiff.


Mick Bates ‘was unaware’ of assaults

Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates may not have known what he was doing after allegedly attacking paramedics trying to treat him following a fall down a flight of stairs, a court heard.


Mick Bates’ trial told reveller threw series of punches

A Mid Wales politician was repeatedly hit by another man moments before falling down a flight of stairs in a restaurant, a court has heard.


Reality TV women give us all the feelgood factor

Winners or losers this weekend’s reality television was packed with women who have given the fairer sex something to feel great about this morning, writes Tracey O’Sullivan.


Lembit Opik no longer Lib Dem Montgomeryshire candidate

Jungle star Lembit Opik is no longer the Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Montgomeryshire, the party said today.

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