'What a horrendous debacle the Shrewsbury North West Relief Road has turned into' - Your Letters: March 6

What a horrendous debacle the Shrewsbury North West Relief Road has turned into, just as predicted.

As Cllr Picton and colleagues try to clean up the mess, will council leaders now show a duty of candour to the people of Shropshire by admitting how many months ago they first knew that the project cost would be over £200 million? As Cllr Gwilym Butler puts it, “so that no-one can say they didn’t know”.

If these councillors’ plan now is to simply limp on with continued NWWR spending to try to get to May or to try to get the government rather than council to put this road plan out of its misery, what does that say about the underlying attitude of the current council?

Surely better to focus spending on escalating pothole problems on the county’s existing roads and plan for remediating the chronic Sundorne roundabout tailbacks than throwing good money after bad at Oxon.

Rev Paul Cawthorne, Hadnall

MENACE OF THE E-SCOOTERS

Re a recent news item, titled "man charged over theft of e-scooter".

It would appear that the 11 year old boy was using the scooter on public land.

So, have the police arrested the lad for riding the e-scooter on public area without a provisional driving licence or without insurance and being under age riding an e-scooter? 

There are to many children and youths illegally riding these scooters.

They very often using them to ride to school many of them riding to primary school with parents permission. 

People have been nearly knocked over by the scooters on footpaths.

And cars are often having to take avoiding action to miss youngsters riding in or crossing busy roads.

Norman D Caddick, West Midlands

TRUMP A DANGER TO THE WORLD

Trump is one of the three most dangerous leaders in the world. 

Criticise and you will get abused with lies and a series of threats. 

He dares you to contradict any of his fake news. He is the king of fake news. Unfortunately, he attracts equally ego-driven sycophants like Johnson, Farage, and Truss from the UK. 

Mix this with news that desperate, poor folk here need donations to stop them from dying this winter of cold and details of "our" latest nuclear weapons ready to threaten/use, and you have a picture of a loony world.

If your children ever ask you to explain these strange, frightening events, just say we live in a mad, dangerous world, controlled by mad, dangerous people.

Roger Cain, Clee Hill

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