Last Sunday, the team I play for in the Sunday Football Leisure Leagues, the Clifton Rovers, was presented with our silverware for coming second in Division One. Had I written this post two weeks ago, I would have said we were on a winning streak! But, as the song says ’things can only get better’, and [...]
Archive for February, 2011
February 24 2011
Freezing our council tax
This week (22 February) Lichfield District councillors voted in favour of freezing the council tax this April for the coming year (2011/12). Councillor Mike Wilcox, Leader of Lichfield District Council, said: “As many household bills are increasing, we hope the freeze in district council tax agreed by councillors last night (22 February) will come as [...]
February 24 2011
A warm LEP welcome at Fradley
I’ve just returned from a meeting of the Development Board of the new Greater Birmingham & Solihull LEP, of which are a key member. The meeting was hosted by Unimerco in Fradley, and they were fantastic hosts. It was great to showcase one of our key economic areas of the district, as well as some of our beautiful countryside. I’d [...]
February 18 2011
A great way to launch a guide
I went along to the launch of the Visit Lichfield guide last week. The guide represents all of our tourism partners coming together to advertise our district to visitors - the print is totally funded by advertising, and it’s delivered by our inhouse team. It’s a great tool to boost our economy and it was a fantastic event, and [...]