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The Big Debate

A first for the Borough Council! This was how the area debate was described by the Mayor - Councillor Martin Bennett when he opened The Big Debate at the Marches School on Thursday evening, 16 November. The Borough's own James Bond of BBC Radio Shropshire was question master for the evening entertaining a high turnout of over 80 people who had some direct and robust questions for the Panel on a variety of topics.

Council Leader, David Lloyd, and Arthur Walpole, Chair of the Council's Scrutiny Committee were joined by panel members, Laura Browse, Head Primary Care Commissioning of the Shropshire Primary Care Trust, David Sear, Chairman of the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital Trust and Robert Manning, Presidential Candidate for the Students Council, Walford and North Shropshire College.

"Our first area debate but I am sure not the last," was the promise from Council Leaders who said "it was good to have the unsolicited comment from the person at the back who congratulated the Council on our latest initiative in communicating with our community.

It was also great to have the co-operation of BBC Shropshire (Rose Ashton, James Bond and their colleagues) for their professionalism and co-operation in staging the event and also providing such magnificent sound quality.

We thoroughly enjoyed the evening and hope that others found it a worthwhile experience."

A write-up of the questions raised and the answers given can be downloaded using the link at the bottom of this page.

If you submitted a question and haven't yet received an answer, we will do our best to get an answer out to you shortly.