On Tuesday evening, October 21st, at the Town Meeting of the Board of Selectmen (or town council) of Litchfield, Connecticut in the United States, the First Selectman (equivalent to Executive Mayor of the Town) read out a proclamation creating a Friendship Week between Litchfield Connecticut and Lichfield England. The week will run from October 17th […]
In an impassioned plea for midlands pensioners in Parliament today, Michael Fabricant said that "Low interest rates, while welcome for borrowers, is crippling for pensioners on a fixed income. It is making the present pensions crisis in the midlands and elsewhere far worse." He added: "The Government’s policy on means testing pensioners is a disincentive […]
On Thursday 16th October, twenty-three people from the Lichfield (Staffordshire) area will be flying out to Litchfield, Connecticut in the USA. This ‘Hands of Friendship across the Ocean’ visit has been organised by Michael Fabricant who has long argued for closer economic and political ties with the United States. "I decided to go ahead and […]
Sir Kenneth Morrison CBE, Chairman of Morrison Supermarkets plc who have bid for Safeway, has told Michael Fabricant in a letter: "Neither Lichfield or Burntwood Safeway…… are on the list of compulsory disposals in the Competition Commission Report. Should things work out in the way that we hope we look forward to trading in these […]
Michael Fabricant undertook a web chat on the Conservative Party Website during the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool. Michael answered questions on rural broadband, the World Trade Organisation, the demise of manufacturing in Britain, and internet issues. Michael was answering questions as Shadow Trade and Industry Minister. The chat can be seen by logging onto […]
Following the news that a shortage of funds at the Strategic Rail Authority has resulted in the plan to upgrade 65 midlands railway stations being slashed to a mere three (they are: Erdington, Four Oaks, and Lichfield City), Michael Fabricant wrote to the Chairman of the SRA asking why Lichfield Trent Valley had been taken […]
Following success in getting BT exchanges enabled for broadband, Michael Fabricant is now calling on villagers in the midlands who cannot be supplied broadband by BT phone line because of the relative remoteness of their location, to form action groups and investigate alternative technologies. "This is not as hard as it may seem" says Michael […]
"Instead of telling Alstom workers to stop ‘making the mistake of talking down British manufacturing’ today, Patricia Hewitt should tell the 200 Alstom workers who have travelled down to Bournemouth in 40 year old rail carriages for the Labour Party Conference what action the Government will take to fight for the 1,000 jobs due to […]
The Post Office has accelerated its 3 year national programme of closing up to a third of all urban Post Offices and hopes to complete all closures by 2004. And now the Post Office will soon announce which, if any, of the 6 post offices in Lichfield and 4 in Burntwood will be earmarked for […]
With the news that the Government has given the green light to Morrison’s to take over the Safeway chain of supermarkets, Michael Fabricant says "I am seeking assurances from Morrison’s that jobs will be safe at the Burntwood and Lichfield stores. The Government has decided that they will only permit the Morrison’s take-over of the […]