I read this before I noted the significance of the date! Except that it’s no April-fool.

Had the Shropshire Star still had sub-editors you would have been tempted to credit them with either a sense of humour or a supreme sense of irony. Either way, beautiful, sweet. Couldn’t have made it up.

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/politics/2017/04/01/shropshire-council-elections-tories-vow-to-spend-21-million-on-the-roads/

In Shropshire Star of 5th April…