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'Green belt plans don’t solve housing crisis' - your letters, plus a youthful mayoress takes office in a 1966 snapshot

From new homes to political debates, here’s what our readers are saying...

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By Tania Taylor
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PICTURE FROM THE PAST: Shrewsbury’s retiring Mayoress, Mrs H.R. Beckett, places the chain of office on the shoulders of her youthful successor, Miss Pat Lancaster. Pat had only turned 20 the previous day. The date of this picture is likely to be May 1966 and was provided by Allan Caswell, of Bayston Hill, Shrewsbury.

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New-build homes are not for all

Few would disagree that there is a need to provide more homes for those who are homeless.

But the development proposed for Albrighton would not meet this need.

The majority of these houses would be likely to be on the market for at least £400,000 – £500,000.

And even the relatively small proportion of so-called affordable houses would be beyond the means of those who are truly in need.

The release of green belt land is not in itself going to meet such a need without strict regulations about the type of development to be permitted.

David Beechey, Albrighton

Which party shall I jump to?

By the political shenanigans of Boris Johnson's lost trousers, people are changing political parties quicker than a Labour Government U-turn!

Here at the Common Sense Party, Aunt Dolly, Uncle Norbert and I are reeling from the multitude of offers to join our political opponents.

If we join Labour they will give us all a gold-plated flat cap and a stuffed racing pigeon and political room to make as many U-turns as we like.

Reform UK have offered us three pints of free beer each week for a year.