At 1.46pm today (marking the very moment when the first hijacked aircraft hit one of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City at 8.46am Eastern Standard Time) two Giant Redwood trees from the United States will be planted at The National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas near Lichfield. These trees will […]

In a show of solidarity with the people of the United States 12 months on from the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington DC, Michael Fabricant is organising a visit to Litchfield, Connecticut in New England and also to Boston, Massachusetts. The visit will take place in the autumn of 2003 and he […]

Following Michael Fabricant’s approach to the M6 Toll Group with the idea to stage a charity marathon before the road opens, Paul Neal, Project Director of the CAMBBA Construction Group has now written saying "while these are all great ideas, they all raise a number of wider issues including public safety, security and logistics. We, […]

Michael Fabricant will introduce legislation in the House of Commons in the new Parliamentary Session to provide the same privacy in law for emails as currently exists for conventional mail and telephone calls. The change in the law is being introduced in the light of the increased number of employers who routinely monitor their employees’ […]

Michael Fabricant is backing an idea proposed by Lichfield man, Robert Yardley of Cornfield Drive, to stage a major marathon run along the M6 Toll Motorway (formerly known as the BNRR) just before it is opened to traffic. The marathon would be open to contestants throughout the UK and abroad and it is hoped that […]

Following Michael Fabricant’s intervention with the Royal Mail (see News Release dated 8th August) which had planned to alter some post codes in Burntwood with old postcodes being discontinued by April 2004 after a 12 month overlap period when both old and new codes can be used simultaneously, Brian Davies – Address Systems Manager, Royal […]

Following his completion of the Three Peaks Challenge (reaching the summits of Snowdon, Skafell Pike, and Ben Nevis – the three highest peaks in Wales, England, and Scotland all in 34 hours over the weekend of 10-11 August), Michael Fabricant yesterday (Sunday 18th August) crossed the Sands of Morecambe Bay – at low tide – […]

Michael Fabricant has asked the Royal Mail to delay the implementation of post code changes which will affect parts of Burntwood with the WS7 8 postcode. In a letter to Brian Davies, Manager of the Address Management Centre in Shrewsbury, Michael has said: "My main concern is that constituents and businesses in the area should […]

Government plans to raise vehicle excise duty on ‘gas guzzling’ 4×4 vehicles to help meet carbon dioxide emission targets are unjustified and unnecessary, so says the Association of British Drivers (ABD) and Michael Fabricant agrees. "In rural areas like Staffordshire, we are now suffering a double whammy. John Prescott’s new plans on how counties will […]

John Healey, the Government Treasury Minister responsible for Customs and Excise and VAT, has written to Michael Fabricant telling him he has "instructed" Customs officials to meet with representatives of the National Arboretum near Alrewas in Lichfield to discuss the imposition of 17.5% VAT on memorials to Britain’s war dead and seek "an outcome which […]