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2010

• 27 July. Oswestry: "Supermarket plan ‘threatens Oswestry revival’" (Shropshire Star)
• 24 July. Housing: "Call to trust village housing decisions" (Shropshire Star)
• 23 July. Housing: "Shapps gives rural communities 'Right to Build' with new vision for village life" & Andy Boddington says we can trust communities (24dash)
• 23 July. Housing: Andy Boddington contributed to a debate on Radio Shropshire about the Right to Build, saying CPRE Shropshire broadly supported the scheme
• 23 July. Clutter: "Signs are an insult to driver's intellect" (Shropshire Star).
• 23 July. Affordable housing: "Affordable homes vital to safeguard villages" (South Shropshire Journal)
• 21 July. Planning: "Countryside campaigners fear Shropshire housebuilding ‘frenzy’" (Shropshire Star)
• 21 July. Planning: "1,600 homes set for green sites". Andy Boddington says "There is a very real danger that it will unleash a housebuilding frenzy across the green fields of Shropshire” (Shrewsbury Chronicle: online, print)
• 20 July. Litter: "CPRE supports Shropshire Council crackdown on litter" (Shropshire Live)
• 20 July. Litter: "Huge £858m cost of keeping Britain tidy" (Shropshire Star)
• 20 July. Litter: Andy Boddington spoke to Beacon Radio about the growing cost of litter.
• 17 July. Affordable housing: "Affordable housing required to keep villages alive" (Shropshire Live)
• 15 July. NWRR: "Groups 'delighted' at no cash for road plan" (Shropshire Star)
• 14 July. Affordable housing: "Build more rural housing 'or Shropshire’s villages will die'" (Shropshire Star)
• 14 July. NWRR: "Shrewsbury's North West Relief Road to be shelved" (BBC)
• 14 July. NWRR: "North west relief road plans could be shelved" (Shropshire Live)
• 14 July. NWRR: Andy Boddington spoke to Radio Shropshire's Eric Smith to welcome the decision to shelve the North West Relief Road.
• 13 July. NWRR: "Call to scrap Shrewsbury North West Relief Road" (Shropshire Star: online; print)
• 13 July. NWRR: "Clear message given in north west relief road survey (Shropshire Live)
• 13 July. NWRR: Andy Boddington spoke to Beacon Radio calling for the NWRR to be abandoned.
• 13 July. Harlescott: "Protest claims at store's sales bid" (Shropshire Star)
• 13 July. Oswestry: "Author Bill Bryson gives award to Oswestry anti-supermarket group" (Shropshire Star; web image)
• 12 July. Oswestry: "Keep Our Town Special Group pick up award" (Borders Advertizer)
• 12 July. Oswestry: "Store protest group sets out stall" (Borders Advertizer)
  
• 10 July. Twitter talk: Andy Boddington talks about using Twitter for campaigning, rescuing cats and falling in love (Shropshire Star).
• 8 July. Planning: Letter from Selby Martin, "Village proposal now put on hold" (Shrewsbury Chronicle; text)
• 8 July. Tesco Harlescott: "Shrewsbury Tesco wants more space to sell non-food items" (Shropshire Star)
• 8 July. Oswestry: "Bill Bryson presents campaign with award" (Shropshire Live)
• 8 July. Andy Boddington spoke to John Darvall on BBC Radio Shropshire about the marsh award and why people in London can’t pronounce “Oswestry” (Listen Again at 48 minutes).
• 7 July. Oswestry: "Campaign against new town store wins prize" (Shropshire Star)
• 6 July. “Oswestry is not dying on its feet“ (Shropshire Star)
• 6 July. Core Strategy: Letter from Andy Boddington "Time to rethink county house building plans" (Shropshire Star; text)
• 6 July. Budget cuts: "Shropshire’s rural areas ‘risk being forgotten’" (Shropshire Star)
• 3 July. Oswestry: "Any new superstore will harm our town" (Shropshire Star; text)
• 1 July. Oswestry: "Group awards top campaigning award" (Shropshire Star)
• 1 July. Commission on Rural Communities: "Watchdog fears for rural awareness" (Shropshire Star)
• 28 June. Oswestry: "More talks on Oswestry supermarket plans" (Borders Advertizer)
• 19 June. "A passion for the job." Ben Bentley interviews Andy Boddington (Shropshire Star; text of article)
• 25 June. Oswestry: “Decision date for store bids” (Shropshire Star); "Store bidders given date for plans decision" (Shropshire Star).
• 23 June. "Campaign calls for end to Oswestry supermarket bids" (Shropshire Star)
• 2 June. Ness: "500,000-bird poultry farms rejected in Shropshire" (Farmers Weekly)
• May. "Litter Bugged" (Pam Farquar letter to Walk magazine)
• 28 May. Ness: "Campaigners win fight to block proposal for massive broiler houses" (Shropshire Star)
• 28 May. Tesco: "Proposal to extend Tesco site is pulled" (Shropshire Star)
• 28 May. Ness: "Campaigners welcome planning application decision" (Shropshire Live)
• 27 May. Ness: CPRE Shropshire headlines on Radio Shropshire - "This was never a battle by Nimbys. It was a campaign to protect Shropshire's beauty and tranquillity".
• 26 May. SAMdev: "Concern over new homes on Church Stretton" (Shropshire Star)
• 26 May. Ness: "Calls for council to reject birds bid" (Shropshire Star)
• 25 May. Oswestry: "Conservation group says traffic plan 'will choke the life out of town'" (Border Counties Advertizer)
• 25 May. Oswestry: "Groups signal bid to save historic rail site" (Border Counties Advertizer)
• 19 May. Oswestry: Claims plans for gyratory system are gridlock risk (Shropshire Star)
• 18 May. NWRR: Drop road plan to save cash (Letter to Shropshire Star)
• 17 May. NWRR: Cuts could put road plans on hold (Shropshire Star)
• 15 May. NWRR: Council under fire for delaying road news (Shropshire Star)
• 15 May. NWRR: outrage at time taken in announcing road project delay (Shropshire Live)
• 14 May. Andy Boddington spoke to Jim Hawkins on BBC Radio Shropshire about the delay in announcing that the NWRR has been put on hold
• 11 May. Oswestry: "Call to save town’s railway heritage" (Shropshire Star)
• 11 May. NWRR: "Ancient trees 'under threat' by road plan" (Shropshire Star)
• 10 May. Shrewsbury. "Tesco continuing to breach conditions – claim" (Shropshire Star)
• 6 May. Dark Skies: "Let there (not) be light" response to Andy Boddington's letter of 19 April.
• 21 April. NWRR: "Campaign against Shrewsbury road plan steps up a gear" (Shropshire Live & Shropshire Star)
• 19 April. "Turning off lights will let us see the stars." Letter from Andy Boddington to Shropshire Star
• 15 April. Andy Boddington spoke to Jim Hawkins on BBC Radio Shropshire about #darkskies2010 and light pollution.
• 1 April. "Starry, starry night - let's turn off the light." Andy Boddington and Cat Salter talk to the Birmingham Post (online version)
• 25 March. Andy Boddington spoke to Jozef Hall on Radio Cambridgeshire about light pollution and #darkskies2010.
• 20 March. Oswestry. Mike Bullen says "There is no evidence Oswestry needs another supermarket" in letter to Shropshire Star
• 18 March. Oswestry. Andrew Tullo spoke to Eric Smith on Radio Shropshire on behalf of the coalition about the planning meeting to be held that day.
• 11 March. Shrewsbury: "Talks on Tesco proposal off" (Shropshire Star)
• 11 March. Shrewsbury: "Tesco retrospective planning application deferred" after CPRE Shropshire objection (Shropshire Live)
• 9 March. Oswestry: "Opposition to development growing fast" (Letter to Border Counties Advertizer)
• 9 March. Oswestry: "Stores protest group takes to the streets" (Border Counties Advertizer)
• 8 March. Oswestry: "Campaign march in fight against store bids" (Shropshire Star)
• 8 March. Oswestry: "March shows strength of feeling, says campaigner" (Border Counties Advertizer)
• 7 March. Andy Boddington and Catherine Webster talk to Eric Smith on BBC Radio Shropshire about local food at Shrewsbury Farmers Market.
• 7 March. CPRE Shropshire responds to the rural advocate report "The Rural Advocate has hit the nail on the head" (Shropshire Live)
• 6 March. Oswestry: "Hundreds join supermarket protest march" (Shropshire Star)
• 6 March. Oswestry: "Coalition protest held over Oswestry store plans" (BBC News)
• 2 March. Oswestry: "Planned store will damage town's future". Charles Green letter (Border Counties Advertizer)
• 2 March. Oswestry: "Protest groups plan march" (Border Counties Advertizer)
• 1 March. Oswestry: "Supermarket campaigners to hit streets" (Shropshire Star)
• 23 February. Oswestry: "Hundreds oppose plans for new store" (Shropshire Star)
• 23 February. Oswestry: "Keep Our Town Special. Campaigners' message to store developers" (Border Counties Advertizer)
• 20 February. "Lights out for dark skies". Andy Boddington interviewed about #darkskies2010 by the Shropshire Star (online version)
• 19 February. Andy Boddington spoke to Jim Hawkins on BBC Radio Shropshire about the Mapping Local Food Webs project.
• 17 February. Catherine Webster spoke to Eric Smith on BBC Radio Shropshire about the Mapping Local Food Webs project, triggering a three hour debate on the subsequent Jim Hawkins programme.
• 16 February. "Town superstore battle hotting up" in Oswestry (Shropshire Star)
• 3 February. "Farmers’ market to ‘be better than ever’" (Shropshire Star)
• 8 January. Katy Anderson and Catherine Webster promote CPRE Shropshire’s new local food campaign. “Campaign is set to promote local food” (Shropshire Star).
• 8 January. Andy Boddington says communities, planners & councillors must "Act now to revive rural life" (Shropshire Star, text of letter)
• 7 January. "Campaigners are critical of food strategy". Katy Anderson criticises the government's food strategy for not giving enough importance to local food (Shropshire Star)
• 2 January. "Campaigners urging farm shop support". Vice President Selby Martin discusses the local food webs project (Shropshire Star)
• 1 January. A CPRE Shropshire letter published in the Daily Telegraph says allowing town halls to be given more control over planning decisions offers hope to market towns, including Oswestry. More...

2009

• 30 December 2009. Food webs. "Town selected for 'food map' project" (Shropshire Star)
• 30 December 2009. Oswestry: "New rules could see shop plan rejected" (Shropshire Star)
• 21 December 2009. Housing numbers: "Green group critical of housing figures" (Shropshire Star)
• 3 November 2009. Tranquillity: "Views of area folk ignored" (Letter from Dr Charles West to Shropshire Star)
• 29 October 2009. "Complaints silenced" (Shropshire Star)
• 29 October 2009. "No cap on flights over tranquil hills" (Shropshire Star)
• 23 October. "Paving over paradise. Shropshire’s wide open spaces are facing unprecedented pressure for development" (Shropshire Star)
• 25 August. "CPRE fears the planned 24-hour drilling operation to search for natural gas deep underground near St Martins, which could last up to two months, could disturb villagers’ sleep" (Shropshire Star)
• 14 August. "Plans hold lots of common sense says CPRE man" (South Shropshire Journal)
• 11 August. "Town revamp plan needs revision". Plans which will guide development in Shrewsbury until 2026 need urgent revision amid fears the town could be at risk of losing its cultural heritage (Shropshire Star)
• 28 July. A new report by members of the CPRE’s Oswestry branch has cast doubts on whether there is still a need for a new store in Oswestry (Shropshire Star).
• 23 July. A "short-term fix at a really, really high cost". Katy Anderson on the North West Relief Road ("Government 'supports' bypass plan": BBC; "Controversial plan back on track": BBC). “We’ll have spent £85 million, destroyed a swathe of the ecologically valuable landscape near the town and achieved nothing but increased carbon emissions.” Katy Anderson on the North West Relief Road (Shropshire Star). Katy Anderson talks to Eric Smith about why the North West Relief Road is a wrong and outdated solution for Shrewsbury. Gerald Kells says the decision is a "disaster for Shropshire" (Shropshire Star).
• 16 July. Andy Boddington talks to Jim Hawkins about wind farms and renewable energy
• 9 July "Overhead line lobby pledge" (Shropshire Star)
• 9 July. "Electricity line bid protest growing" (Shropshire Star)
• 11 June. "Better to invest NWRR millions in cycle paths and bus services" (Shrewsbury Chronicle)
• 29 May. "Town bypass decision due" (Planning)
• 19 May. "Protests against town bid for road" (Shropshire Star)
• 18 May. "Homes needed at the centre of rural lives" (Shropshire Star)
• 20 April. "Concerns over change of heart over turbine bid" (Shropshire Star)
• 31 March. "Campaigners fear council's bland policy" (Shropshire Star)
• 13 February. CPRE doesn't object to all rural building (South Shropshire Journal)
• 10 February. Calls for road cash bid to be scrapped (Shropshire Star)
• 31 January. Oswestry: Store plans fight grows (Shropshire Star)
• 30 January. "Housing blight fear in South Shropshire" (South Shropshire Journal)
• 29 January. Shropshire planner Jake Berriman talks to Jim Hawkins on Radio Shropshire about the Core Strategy consultation (MP3)
• 28 January. "Greenfield homes target is too high" (Shropshire Star)
• 27 January. Andy Boddington talks to John Darvall on Radio Shropshire about the Core Strategy consultation (MP3)
• 16 January. CPRE calls for better public transport links for the people of Shropshire (Shropshire Star)

2008

• 24 October. Selby Martin comments on noise in the countryside (Shropshire Star)
• 2 October. Selby Martin objects to plans for a jetty in Shrewsbury Quarry (Shropshire Star)