Following a meeting with Richard Fearn, Midlands Railtrack Director, Michael Fabricant has been able to obtain a firm commitment to upgrade Lichfield Trent Valley Railway station. "This will benefit commuters and the economy of the City as more mainline trains will be able to stop at the station", says Mr Fabricant. "I have not been […]
Keith Hill MP, Minister at the Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions, has told Michael Fabricant that there will be a Public Inquiry into the track widening proposals made by Railtrack in Armitage and Handsacre. The Minister advised Mr Fabricant that over 1,000 objections had been received including the petition of over 300 […]
"With the Rural Crime Unit and Mounted Police being disbanded in Staffordshire and there being 250 fewer police and police civilian personnel in our County and the closure and partial closure of Police Stations in Lichfield, Chasetown and elsewhere, there is growing unease about the ability of the Police to protect homes and individuals from […]
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 […]