WORK on safety improvements at a road junction near Cradley has still not started, to the fury of people who donated land and money for the project.

Worried about the dangerous junction of Tan House Lane and the A4103, farmer Dennis Johnson and his former neighbour, The Rev. John Mosey, gave the council a piece of land and £3,000 respectively so that visibility could be improved.

The donations were on the condition that work was started by the beginning of this month.

Despite having the cash since last year, the council has done nothing and told the Malvern Gazette it had no intention of starting the work. Mr Johnson has now taken the case to the Local Government Ombudsman.

Cradley Parish Council discussed the issue at its Tuesday meeting, where a letter from Mr Mosey to Herefordshire Council was read out.

"We have consistently been led to believe that the work would be started shortly," it said.

Herefordshire councillor Rhys Mills was also at the meeting. He said he had taken up the subject with the council's highways department.

The parish council agreed that, while it supported the need for improvements at the junction, it could not get directly involved in the case.