This week the Chronicle launches two campaigns to highlight the threats facing community life in our county.
Villages Under Siege focuses on the impact felt by residents who are witnessing the disappearance of their rural way of life through various cutbacks.
Post office closures, school mergers and pubs being sold to make way for new homes. Is this the end of the traditional English village? In the first of a new series reporter EMMA KASPRZAK went to Coton, near Wem, to find out if villages are
See page 5 of this week’s Shrewsbury Chronicle for more on The Last Post? campaign or click on the link below.