Crews battle barn fire

9:43am Friday 28th November 2008

FIREFIGHTERS spent more than four hours battling a barn fire in Bishops Castle on Wendesday.

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News and views from Bishop's Castle

11:44am Friday 31st October 2008

SILVER ECO-AWARD FOR GUEST HOUSE Norman and Rosie Reid, who run the Old Brick Guesthouse in Bishop’s Castle have been received a Silver Award by the Green Tourism Business Scheme recognising their commitment to ecological and environmental practices. Now the couple are ‘Going for Gold’ to win the highest award of all. The Reids signed up with the scheme last year and after an initial inspection they were given a bronze grading - upgraded to silver this summer. “We had to meet a number of different criteria to get the award,” explains Mrs Reid. “Many of them we were already doing, but with a bit of thought we were able to make our business a lot more environmentally sound. We recycle as much as possible and send our bio-degradeable waste to the bio-digester. The Reids have owned the guesthouse for five years, returning to England after 30 years living in Canada. Looking to the future Mrs Reid adds: “We still have ambitions to market ourselves more as a green business and to encourage people to think about the environment when booking a holiday. There is still a lot to do but we have been very encouraged by our Silver award.”

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Councillors volunteer for new blog

8:10am Wednesday 22nd October 2008

Six Bishop’s Castle town councillors have volunteered to moderate a new interactive blog on the BCTC website.

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Town council's camera plea

8:10am Tuesday 21st October 2008

Bishop’s Castle Town Council wonders what has happened to the CCTV cameras promised by South Shropshire District Council for the waste recycling centre at Crowgate.

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Town Council backing for waste digester

8:00am Monday 20th October 2008

BISHOP'S Castle Town Council has put its backing behind an idea to build an anaerobic digester for the local community. In her presentation to the council on October 7 Kate Evans, a director of the Wasteless Society, described how a locally run digester could give Bishop’s Castle its own source of energy. “Bishop’s Castle is extremely dependent on oil and electricity for our domestic, agricultural and commercial needs,”

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Charity benefits from farmers' market

8:00am Saturday 18th October 2008

THREE local people who help to make Bishop’s Castle farmers’ markets run smoothly every month have donated their payment to charity. Jim Pratt, Tom Randall and Laurie Stanley have given £308 to Bishop’s Castle Community Hospital. The next farmers’ market will be on Saturday from 9am in the town hall and market square. Call 01588 630260 for details

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Teen author set for success

8:00am Friday 17th October 2008

A LYDBURY North teenager looks set for success with her very first book.

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Bishop's Castle fire crews new life-saving kit

8:30am Friday 3rd October 2008

Defibrillators have been installed as part of a countywide campaign so that firefighters are able to give emergency treatment to people at life-threatening incidents until ambulance crews take over.

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Shropshire crews in cross border rescue

9:33am Thursday 2nd October 2008

FIRE crews from across South Shropshire mounted a cross border rescue when a scrap yard in Knighton went on fire in the eary hours of this morning/last Thursday morning.

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