内容摘要：Alex Paterson, the authority’s portfolio holder for community safety, highways and enforcement, said: “Every month, around 1,200 children are injured on the road, on their way to school, within 500 metres of their school.

Alex Paterson, the authority’s portfolio holder for community safety, highways and enforcement, said: “Every month, around 1,200 children are injured on the road, on their way to school, within 500 metres of their school.

All of the main political parties fielding candidates in Shropshire Council elections on 1 May are against the project, except the Conservative group."Professionally, I drive an HGV and often need to get around Shrewsbury and face similar problems [to those travelling in the town centre]... it is impractical to drive through town," said Mr Longmuir, who lives in Shawbury.

"So, if there's an accident or heavy traffic, especially around holidays, then it costs a lot of time."He frequently drives through the town centre to visit his wife's parents in Copthorne or take his young son to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital."The centre of town is often the shortest and quickest route [in a car], despite the congestion. Building the relief road would make life a lot simpler and safer for everyone," Mr Longmuir added.

However, there are various reasons why people are opposed to a new road, linking the A5 to the west of the town with the A5124 to the north east at Battlefield.Environmental campaign groups claim it would destroy the countryside, create excessive greenhouse emissions and result in

Others like Debbie Carvell, who runs a clothing shop in Shrewsbury, thinks the road would not solve the town's traffic problems.

"If you build more roads, then you just create more traffic and I think it would be a really bad decision to do that," she said.Ms Rigg said the war was a scary period in her life to live through, but there were moments of fun among the despair.

"I had my 21st birthday on the station and they made me a cake."We used to have the ships that came in from the USA with food on them, and one of the ships had boxes of dried fruit.

"One of the sailors discreetly dropped one of the crates on the side of the dock so that we had plenty of fruit in the cake."Another time, a crate of bacon was accidentally dropped off a ship, and I stashed some down my bloomers, and didn't declare it on the way out.