Residents of Bishops Castle met this week to give their view on the future uses for land in their town, especially that of the former proposed Biomass site on Crowgate Business Park.

The meeting/surgery, held in Church Barns, was organised by local Lib dem Councillor Charlotte Barnes attracted many residents from across the town and the wider community.

Over 20 million working people will be better off next year after Liberal Democrats in the Coalition Government delivered the biggest ever increase in the income tax personal allowance in the Budget.

The massive £3.5bn tax cut for working people delivers:

• The biggest ever single uplift in the tax threshold
• A personal allowance of £9,205 in April 2013
• 21 million working people getting an extra £220 tax cut
• Brings the total tax cut for basic rate tax payers to £550
• Brings the total number of people lifted out of tax to 2 million.

Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg used his speech to the Party's Spring conference in NewcastleGateshead to call for the forthcoming budget to be a "budget for fairness" and pledged that it would help working familes.

The Deputy Prime Minister pledged that by 2015 Britain would have seen an end to control orders, the first gay marriages and the first elections to the House of Lords.

Fairer taxes, promoting green jobs, protecting your civil liberties - these are just some of the achievements of the Liberal Democrats in government.

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HOW TO PUT IN AN OBJECTION TO THE WORTHEN WIND FARM PROPOSAL

If you want to object to this proposal go to:

http://planningpa.shropshire.gov.uk/online-applications

and enter the reference 12/00688. or just 'Worthen'.

An application, to be effective, must be done on valid planning grounds.

This is some of the professional advice received on possible grounds for objection:

Shropshire Sits on Government Cash as Young Families Struggle

Heather Kidd, Lib Dem Councillor for Chirbury and Worthen has slammed Shropshire Council for its tardiness in spending £2.8 million in new homes bonus allocated by the Government to Shropshire to build more affordable housing for local people.

Worthen Village Hall was packed on Saturday 25th February for a meeting to protest against the proposal to build a wind farm between Worthen and Minsterley.

The meeting was called (and chaired) by local Shropshire Councillor Heather Kidd and several concerned residents of the area. "This was a huge turnout from a very rural community like ours with people coming from Stiperstones, Hope, Minsterley and Marton as well as Worthen and Brockton. The sheer size of these things are going to impact on all our lives and ruin the landscape."

Shropshire schools are well known to be more poorly funded than nearly all schools in other parts of the Country. All extra funding is important in delivering good quality education across Shropshire.

"This year Lib Dem policy will mean that Worthen School will receive an extra pupil premium payment of around £4,800 on top of their budget for children receiving free School meals. Hope School will receive £4,200 and Mary Webb in Pontesbury will benefit by £46,800!" Said Cllr Heather Kidd. "I am delighted that many of the schools in my area will gain. Every penny counts for Shropshire Schools."

Heather Kidd, Lib Dem Councillor for Chirbury and Worthen has slammed the British Telecom for its abject failure to reconnect most of the hamlet of Brockton, Lower Down and Bury Ditches near Bishops Castle after their phones had been off line for more than a week. She is covering the area while a new Councillor is elected and was alerted to this by Charlotte Barnes.