I was asked to prepare a Christmas message for a local WI group, and I thought I’d share it on my blog too. Lichfield District is a lovely place to be in the run up to Christmas. From the city’s Christmas Festival, Burntwood’s lantern parade, the Lichfield Garrick’s production of A Christmas Carol and services [...]
Archive for December, 2011
December 9 2011
Changes to the planned Friarsgate Scheme
At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday 29 November, Lichfield District councillors endorsed planned changes to the Friarsgate development, which include removing the hotel from the scheme. They were asked to endorse these changes on behalf of the council, as landowner of the development site. Friarsgate is set to bring hundreds of jobs, new shops, restaurants [...]
December 1 2011
Were your bins not emptied this week, due to industrial action?
If any of your bin were not emptied as usual on Wednesday 30 November, due to the strike, here’s what to do next: If your black bin wasn’t emptied: Please put it out on Tuesday 6 December. Our teams will empty it on either Tuesday or Wednesday, so please leave it out until the evening of [...]
December 1 2011
The Prime Minister, an Angel and the Staffordshire Hoard
Cllr Mike Wilcox, Leader of Lichfield District Council, presented a framed photograph of the Staffordshire Hoard and Lichfield Cathedral’s Anglo Saxon Treasures – the Lichfield Angel and St Chad Gospels – to David Cameron Prime Minister On Thursday 24 November 2011, Cllr Mike Wilcox, Leader of Lichfield District Council, presented a framed photograph of the [...]