Reprieve hope for south Shropshire food waste collections?

Environmental campaigners are looking at ways of bringing back weekly food waste collections axed in three south Shropshire towns as part of cost-cutting measures.

Weekly collections were introduced in Ludlow, Craven Arms and Church Stretton as a pioneering pilot project backed by the government three years ago.

But earlier this year Shropshire Council announced it was scrapping the scheme in a bid to save more than £200,000. Food waste is now collected fortnightly.

Now members of Ludlow 21 and Cittaslow Ludlow have arranged a public meeting on Monday to discuss ways of bringing back weekly collections.

This would include making use of the town's biodigester in Coder Road.

It takes place at Ludlow Assembly Rooms from 8.15pm and residents from all three towns have been urged to attend.

David Currant, chairman of Ludlow 21, said: "People are upset that we are losing something that was seen as an example of how to do things - from the perspective of the cost and the environmental impact it was ideal."