Michael Fabricant will be meeting Winnie the pig and local farmer, Chris Jackson, in Parliament Square on the night of Tuesday 2nd May. Winnie has become something of a Westminster celebrity. He lives in a purpose built sty under the statue of Sir Winston Churchill directly facing the main entrance to the House of Commons. […]
Ann Widdecombe will be visiting Lichfield on Saturday 8th July and will be the guest of honour at a Conservative Party dinner to be held in a local hotel. Before that, she plans to visit the Medieval Market being held in The Close and will also be given a tour of Lichfield Cathedral, including the […]
Janice Taylor (Trent Valley, Lichfield Post Office), Mrs Cash Badham and her daughter Anita (Armitage Post Office) and Mrs Kim Frankham (Hammerwich Post Office) travelled down to London as part of the huge lobby of sub post masters and mistresses which besieged Parliament on Wednesday. But speaking during prime minister’s question time Mr Blair said […]
In a letter to Michael Fabricant, Jane Kennedy MP (Minister in the Lord Chancellor’s Department) has announced that both the Lichfield Magistrates’ Court and the Lichfield based County Court will both be closed by 3rd July ending hundreds of years of legal tradition in the City. “This will now jeopardise the future of law firms […]
Following his formal written objection to the West Coast Main Line Order which would widen the track from 2 lines to 4 right through the centre of Armitage and Handsacre, Michael Fabricant has now sent the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, a petition of 304 names objecting to the works being undertaken. The petition was […]
The team from Nether Stowe High School in Lichfield scooped the MICHAEL FABRICANT MP – ARTHUR PRICE OF ENGLAND Inter-Schools Parliamentary Speaking Competition held in the Guildhall in Lichfield on Friday night. The School won the Team award and the Best Speaker award. The team members from Nether Stowe were Claire Sharrod, Gareth Walton and […]
Michael Fabricant has joined with backbench Labour and Liberal MPs to call on the Government to create a special holiday, for this year only, to mark Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother’s 100th birthday. This holiday would be on the Monday following the anniversary of her birth. “The Queen Mother has served our nation […]
At the Annual General Meeting of the Lichfield Constituency Conservative Association held in the Guildroom, Lichfield last night ( Friday 31st March), Michael Fabricant was unanimously re-adopted to fight the General Election as the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for the Lichfield Constituency. “It is an honour and a privilege to be asked to stand again”, says […]
In a debate at 1pm today (Wednesday) in the House of Commons which he initiated, Michael Fabricant said that according to a recent economic analysis, the European Union is now costing each British family a minimum of £1000 a year taking into account all the advantages of the single European market and inward investment. He […]
Michael Fabricant has today lodged a formal objection with the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, at the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions against the widening of the West Coast Main Line (to allow 4 tracks instead of the present 2) between Lichfield and Armitage. “Railtrack’s own environmental statement admits that 60 properties […]