Tuesday, 6th January 2009

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Bring your Barbies!

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Sandra Cartwright has been knitting clothes for the last two years so the dolls can be included in Christmas shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child.

Tor to ride for England

Horsewoman Tor Smith, from Henley, near Acton Scott, has been selected once again to represent England.

School is ’shining example’

Church Stretton School is bucking the trend when it comes to maths – and has been heralded by Government inspectors as a shining example of how arithmetic should be taught.

Fears for cash in Iceland

Cash-strapped Powys County Council has a £4 million cash investment in two Icelandic banks which have gone into receivership.

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Council to stand fast over lights debacle

Powys County Council’s Board is wavering on its decision to switch off street lights across the county, after several members expressed concerns about the programme and the way it had been carried ou

Lights out anger mounts

Vulnerable people are being put in danger by Powys County Council’s new policy of switching off two in every three streetlights, people in towns all over Mid Wales have claimed.

Feathers fly…

A free-range egg-laying bird farm is to be built near a Mid Wales village after planning officers revealed objections had been removed.

Hospital up for debate

Residents will be able to have their say about the development of a new community hospital for Ludlow at the next meeting of the Action: Ludlow and Ludlow Rural local joint committee next Thursday (September 25).

Council top of complaints list

Ludlow Town Council is the most complained-about authority in the county, according to figures released by standards committees across Shropshire.

Assault blamed on lights ban

A teenager who suffered a torn ear drum in an assault in Llandrindod Wells claims his friends could not see the incident because the street lights had been switched off.