Whilst doing my PPL and since, I spent a lot of time flying around Shawbury and would always contact them. I have found the controllers there most helpful and their unfailing patience and politeness with some people has never ceased to amaze me. I always felt somebody was looking out for me. (Don't worry, I still maintained my usual lookout). It was in complete contrast with a civil airfield not too far away whose controllers' reputation for their attitude towards small GA was, to put it mildly, anti-GA, and on one occasion involving myself, resulted in a phone call of the tea-no-biscuits type by the CFI. The CFI had been sitting next to me and there was nearly a CFI-shaped dent in the roof of the poor little C152.
Oh go on, tell us more.... got my tea and biscuits.... garibaldi this morning.... however there's nothing decent in the papers, not even Lady Gaga's much vaunted tits.....