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Philip Dunne writes a weekly column in the Shropshire Star www.shropshirestar.com. These, and other articles, are listed here:
12 May 2008 : Article Motoring misery for rural folk Over the last ten years people living in the countryside have faced wave upon wave of threatened service closures. | more |
28 April 2008 : Article Budget blues for millions as tax U-turn unravels There is growing alarm ahead of this week's local elections that the Government has lost the plot on the most important of all issues - the economy. | more |
21 April 2008 : Article The current consultation on post office closures in Shropshire is highlighting the risk posed to our remaining village shops. | more |
14 April 2008 : Article Conservatives welcome LibDem councillor Last week Cllr David Gibbon who represents Much Wenlock on Shropshire County Council decided he had had enough of the LibDems and joined the Conservatives. | more |
7 April 2008 : Article Shropshire families face further £110 tax hike Three weeks after Alistair Darling's bad news Budget it's clear the country doesn't like it, MPs don't like it and now Ministers don't like it either. | more |
31 March 2008 : Article GP services must be kept close to patients Family doctor surgeries across Shropshire are anxious they may be the latest casualty of the Government's assault on rural services. | more |
24 March 2008 : Article Government post office cull hits Shropshire We learn the identity of which post offices in Shropshire the Government wants to shut on 1st April. But this is no April's Fool list. | more |
17 March 2008 : Article Budget hits country dwellers hardest Not content with threatening closure of rural hospitals, schools, post offices and police stations, the Government seems determined to add new burdens to country dwellers. | more |
10 March 2008 : Article This week the accident-prone Chancellor presents his first Budget. | more |
3 March 2008 : Article Cunning Euro plan comes a cropper At the last election, all three main parties pledged in their manifestos to hold a referendum on the latest European treaty. | more |
25 February 2008 : Article Northern Rock to be Gordon's millstone Last Friday you and I, as taxpayers, became the not so proud owners of Northern Rock. | more |
18 February 2008 : Article Time to get tough on teenage boozers The scourge of binge drinking, especially amongst teenagers, as highlighted in last Thursday's Shropshire Star, is corroding many of our communities. | more |
11 February 2008 : Article Time to recognise the reality of rurality in Britain today Last week the Home Secretary's adviser Sir Ronnie Flanagan published a report into modernising the police. One proposal called for a shift in resources from rural to inner city forces. | more |
6 February 2008 : Article Shropshire MPs claimed today the future of county schools was "absolutely secure" and warned of "siren voices" causing alarm among parents. | more |
4 February 2008 : Article Last week saw one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the county in recent times. | more |
28 January 2008 : Article Shropshire's excellent local village primary schools learnt one thing this weekend which just might give worried parents, staff, governors a shred of comfort: we are not alone. | more |
21 January 2008 : Article Have we learned the lessons of the summer floods? Have the floods of last summer come back to haunt us in the depths of winter? | more |
14 January 2008 : Article Anxious time for Shropshire schools With the new school term starting last week, it is an anxious time for many, especially parents, staff and governors of Shropshire's village primaries. | more |
31 December 2007 : Article 2008 is make or break for Gordon Brown 2008 is likely to prove a make or break year for Gordon Brown and his Government. | more |
24 December 2007 : Article David Cameron rides the political roller-coaster 2007 may well be seen by historians of British politics as a watershed year. | more |
17 December 2007 : Article Brown pleases no one with his stealthy embrace of new Brussels powers So Gordon Brown has skulked in and signed up to the EU Constitution in the shadows, breaking his election manifesto pledge for a referendum, but at the same time managing to upset europhiles, eurosceptics and other EU leaders. | more |
10 December 2007 : Article Shops need supporting all year, not just at Christmas This is one of the busiest shopping weeks of the year. | more |
3 December 2007 : Article Fair funding would save Shropshire schools Last Friday Shropshire's MPs met the County Council cabinet to discuss the potential policy change for primary school closure criteria. | more |
26 November 2007 : Article Five days that shook Gordon Brown's world We may well look back on last week as a tipping point in the decline of Gordon Brown's Government. | more |
19 November 2007 : Article Immigration curbs will ease housing pressures Last week's news that house prices are turning down may be good news for those seeking a first foot on the housing ladder, but signal trouble ahead for the economy and householders as a whole. | more |
11 November 2007 : Article A blueprint for mending our broken society One week last month over 200 jobs were lost in separate business cut-backs in Alveley, Craven Arms and Bridgnorth. | more |
6 November 2007 : Article Sorry Darling, but taxing times lie ahead Confidence in economic competence is an essential ingredient for a successful government. | more |
29 October 2007 : Article Fight to save our schools in Shropshire Many local communities in Shropshire may soon have to fight to save our schools. Primary schools in rural parts of Ludlow constituency could be at risk from falling school rolls. | more |
23 October 2007 : Article Fight to save our schools in Shropshire Many local communities in Shropshire may soon have another fight on our hands, a fight to save our local schools. | more |
22 October 2007 : Article Ming's fall shows two-party politics are back The original Ming Dynasty lasted nearly 300 years. | more |