Fundamental gene in human nature to hand something on Two Prime Ministers coined phrases which witnessed their nexus over the last few days. John Major talked about ?wealth cascading down through the generations? and two decades earlier Harold Wilson uttered the truism: ?a week is a long time in politics?. The astonishing collapse of Gordon […]
Commenting on the end of the independent Staffordshire Ambulance Service which became a part of the West Midlands Ambulance Service today (1st October), Michael Fabricant says: "It is a sad end to an era. Staffordshire Ambulance Service had become the top performing ambulance service in Europe yet the Government were determined to bulldozer through this […]
Michael Fabricant has learned that damages are being claimed against the contractor responsible for the paving works around Lichfield Market Square. And the Council has said "We believe that a significant proportion of the delay can be attributed to the contractor not planning its work effectively, including at times having an inadequate number of skilled […]
Thirty-eight people attended the meeting on Saturday (29th September) in the Guildhall, Lichfield called by Michael Fabricant to restart the Regal Cinema – formerly the Kwik Save in Tamworth Street, Lichfield. "I never anticipated so may would give up their Saturday to attend the meeting – and all felt the urgent need for a cinema […]
Michael Fabricant has welcomed the decision to approve planning permission to transform the Whittington Barracks at Lichfield into a new headquarters for the Defence Medical Education and Training Agency (DMETA). "I have been lobbying the Secretary of State for Defence, Des Browne, hard to secure the long-term future for the barracks ever since the Government […]
Michael Fabricant opened the Huddlesford Boat Gathering near Lichfield on the morning of Saturday 22nd September. Michael arrived in grand style on a narrow boat travelling up the Coventry Canal and cruising into the Lichfield Canal together with the President and Chairman of the Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust and officers of the Lichfield […]
Michael Fabricant is convening a meeting to be held at Noon on Saturday 29th September in The Committee Room, first floor of The Guildhall, Bore Street, Lichfield to discuss the future of the closed Kwik Save building in Tamworth Street, Lichfield – formerly the Regal Cinema. "I have been blown-out by the response to my […]
Following an approach by the committee set up to mark the tercentenary of Dr Samuel Johnson’s birth in Lichfield on 18th September 1709, Michael Fabricant has enlisted the help of the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (the department formally known as the DTI), Rt Hon John Hutton MP, to ask the […]
Michael Fabricant has issued a challenge to enterprising Lichfeldians to find a new use for an abandoned supermarket and open a specialised cinema in the City. "There are a number of small towns in the midlands with newly opened specialist single-screen cinemas able to offer different choices from the usual multi-screen complexes. They have become […]
Kevin Pearce, Franchise Director for Virgin West Coast trains, has written to Michael Fabricant with the draft timetable for the West Coast Main line effective from December this year and valid until December 2008 when the ‘permanent’ timetable comes into force. "From December 2007, there will be high-speed tilting Virgin Pendolino trains to Euston (London) […]