Michael Fabricant has tabled an amendment to the HS2 (West Midland – Crewe) Bill which, if passed, would halt the legislation in its tracks “though with support from both the Government and the Labour Party, I expect the Bill to pass” says Michael “So why did I bother to table the Motion? I wanted to […]
Let’s crack on and pay the £40bn Brexit bill, as long as we’re not taken for a ride Michael Fabricant It has been widely reported that the UK is offering a ‘divorce bill’ of between £40 and £50 billion to the EU in exchange for progress on trade talks. Unsurprisingly, this news is being met […]
Give rail users compensation for persistent delays Michael Fabricant Railway Season ticket holders are being ripped off on routes where there are constant delays and it?s time for the Department of Transport to take action. Train delays are sometimes inevitable. When customers are delayed for 30 minutes or longer, they are entitled compensation. But this […]
Michael Fabricant says he is “keen to see better training and opportunities for female coaches in football”. On Tuesday 14th November, Michael met Armitage resident Elsie Baxter who has been successfully chosen as one of the 50 coaches Betfair is funding to complete their UEFA B licence, with the long-term goal of increasing the number […]
Michael Fabricant – a Chartered Engineer – visited the Sandfields Pumping Station in Lichfield on Friday 3rd November to see for himself the work being undertaken to restore the massive steam powered beam engine that used to push millions of gallons of water each day uphill to save the people of the Black Country from […]
Michael Fabricant will be appearing on Celebrity First Dates at 9pm Thursday 2nd November on Channel 4. “I am not taking any fee for this programme” says Michael. “Instead £20,000 will be donated by Channel 4 to the Stand up to Cancer charity run by Cancer Research UK. “It was a sometimes terrifying whirlwind date […]
“A rail bridge in Lichfield is getting into the record books for all the wrong reasons” says Michael Fabricant. It is the most bashed in the West Midlands and sixth most lorry-bashed in Britain, Network Rail has revealed; and Michael Fabricant asks “Is more or better signage the answer?”. St John Street bridge has been […]
Michael Fabricant will open the Huddlesford Gathering near Lichfield at around 11.45am on Saturday 23rd September – and the ‘Gathering’ will last until late on Sunday 24th. Michael says: “This event is fast becoming a Lichfield tradition! It is now the 7th occasion for this water based weekend family fun day. There will be scores […]
The Parliamentary Boundary Commission have decided in an announcement today (17th October) to keep with their original proposal for the Lichfield Parliamentary Constituency: that Streethay and Whittington be moved to the Tamworth Parliamentary Constituency and that Haywood and Hixon be moved into Lichfield from the Stafford constituency. Michael Fabricant says “I am very disappointed with […]
