Tributes to builder with 'a big heart' who was killed in crash on Shropshire border

Tributes have been paid to a councillor and well-known builder who was killed in an accident on a road on the Shropshire border.

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Frank Woodcock, 62, was a member of Woore Parish Council and a property developer in the Market Drayton area.

He was killed when the van he was in collided with both another car and the side of a railway bridge on the A51 at Stableford, on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border, on Saturday night.

Stephen Clifford, who was a member of Woore Parish Council alongside Mr Woodcock, said the council was a big part of his life.

"I knew him through the council and first met him when I joined nine years ago," he said.

"He had been on the council for a long time, more than 30 years, and was a former chairman in that time. I never found out why but he proposed I became chairman.

"The council was a major part of his life. He disagreed with people and people disagreed with him but he never held a grudge.

"He was keen on having more public open space and recreational space."