The third ever Lichfield Rocks Festival, which was headlined by chart toppers Sam And The Womp, has raised £2,264 for The Olive Circle Foundation. And all funds will be donated to Jack Oldacres, who was born with Netherton’s syndrome: a rare congenital skin disease. This year’s Lichfield Rocks took place over two days at The […]
Michael Fabricant visited Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatters Tea Party, and wore an appropriate jacket (see attached photo) at Lichfield Library on Friday 9th October. The Library was celebrating the recent Lichfield Literature Festival in style by turning the Art Gallery into a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. After successfully gaining funding from Arts […]
Michael Fabricant has tabled Parliamentary Written Questions to ministers at the Department of Health, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and to the Wales Office to encourage legislation in England to force restaurants to put their hygiene rating on display for customers. “I was shocked to learn from a constituent that one of the […]
Michael Fabricant visited the Huddlesford Canal Gathering on the 19th September 2015 which ran for the weekend of the 19th and 20th. Run and organised by the Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust and the Lichfield Cruising Club, the event featured narrow boats, vintage cars, folk music, plenty to eat and drink, and various displays. […]
As part of ‘Save a Life September’, St John’s Ambulance gave demonstrations in the Market Square in Lichfield on Sunday 20th September and Michael Fabricant got down to have a go. “I had never been trained on CPR with a baby”, says Michael. “The technique is slightly different from that of an adult and I […]
Following reports in local media, Michael Fabricant has branded possible changes to the minor injuries unit at the Dr Samuel Johnson Hospital in Lichfield as “totally unacceptable”. “I have written to Dr John James and officials at the local Clinical Commissioning Group based in Tamworth telling them that a major reduction in the hours or […]
“Following a long and hard fought campaign, the Department for Transport has finally agreed to provide disabled access to all platforms at Lichfield Trent Valley station” says Michael Fabricant. In a letter, Baroness Kramer, Minister at the Department for Transport, says: I am pleased to confirm that Lichfield Trent Valley was one of the 42 […]
Despite a small rise nationally in unemployment, the Lichfield Parliamentary constituency (which also incorporates Burntwood and extends north of Abbots Bromley and east to Barton under Needwood) has seen yet another fall in unemployment in June 2015. “The Lichfield constituency is now in the top 4% of all constituencies throughout the United Kingdom for employment” […]
When Michael Fabricant accepted an invitation from Michael Hall, a Year 4 student at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Michael Fabricant didn’t know what would confront him when he visited on Friday 10th July. “The class had been studying politics for the General Election and the 8 and 9 year olds were very clued up” […]
Along with hundreds of other residents, Michael Fabricant signed the Summer Reading Challenge at the Library at The Friary, Lichfield on Saturday 11th July. Michael, and other adults, pledged to encourage others to read with children this summer, while children pledged to visit the library and read over the summer. Michael says “The summer reading […]