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Trucker's café in peril
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• The future of an award winning truckstop cafe hangs In the balance after the council estimated repairs to the nearby truck park at an unfeasible £300,000.
The Midway Truckstop on the A41 near Whitchurch in Shropshire is under threat because of the state of the parking facilities; two people are already pursuing insurance claims after sustaining Injuries at the site, But the café's owners say that closing the truck park would severely disrupt things for the business, which regularly takes around 350 customers a day—most of them truck drivers. One driver says the people who use the facilities regularly would be lost without it.
Part-owner Phillip Barks says the council-owned truck park has fallen into disrepair after being neglected for so many years and that he is worried about the future: "We are very concerned: we would struggle if the parking went."
Head of engineering at north Shropshire district council, Ken Buttress, sympathises but insists the council simply does not have the money to repair the parking area. He also refutes claims it has done nothing to reduce the rate of deterioration.
He adds that a working party looking at the issue will report back to the Council's policy committee on 12 November. The policy committee will then make the final decision on the truck park's future.