Council's call over turbines

Campaigners fighting to prevent thousands of wind turbine lorries travelling through Mid Wales say it will have a drastic effect on emergency services.

Welshpool Town Council says it will be doing everything in its power to stop turbine transporters going through the town centre.

At a town council meeting yesterday councillors called for a survey to be conducted on the town's roads.

Councillor John Meredith said: "We have to ask ourselves what impact this is going to have on our emergency services.

"If we allow this transportation to come through our town it will end up being gridlocked and emergency services will definitely suffer as a result.

"What I'd like to see is a survey done on all the town's roads to see if they will cope."

Councillor John Corfield said the transportation would have an extreme effect on tourism.

"It will devastate the whole ethos of Welshpool as a tourism town," he said.

Town clerk Robert Robinson said the council is calling for a public inquiry.