A&E Department: Many thanks must go to prospective parliamentary candidate Glyn Davies for bringing the issue to our attention.
Due to future budget constraints, there are new plans to merge the A&E department of Royal Shrewsbury and Telford hospitals, but until now nothing in Montgomeryshire has been mentioned about this.
Although I would favour both hospitals being retained, for us living in rural Mid Wales, Shrewsbury must be the obvious choice to save. I remember the agonising journey with my son from Abermule to Shrewsbury after he had a bad fall. It would be a disaster for anyone living in Mid Wales to have to travel another 30 minutes to Telford in an emergency.
It is shame that we cannot retain both Telford and Shrewsbury. Perhaps if a Conservative government diverted funds from the £40 million per day to the EU or the wasteful Foreign Aid budget, we could do!
We must marshal our forces to campaign for the retention of A&E at Shrewsbury. The Save Telford Campaign is already well organised.