A popular play area, first installed in 1991, has had a revamp costing £88,000 to bring the equipment and landscaping up to modern standards and to make it fully inclusive.

The play area is in the Cannock East Ward and borders Barnard Way and Cannock Road. Nearby there has been significant house building over the past five years and so councillors from the ward requested that Community Infrastructure Levy Funds, or CIL money, be used to give the existing play area a makeover so young people living nearby have a nice area for playing and meeting their friends.

Residents can get into the Christmas spirit with specially themed story walks to compliment the pantomimes taking place across the District this festive period.

Across Cannock, Elmore and Hednesford parks there are 10 story boards themed on the history of pantomimes.  The story walk takes approximately 30 minutes and will run throughout the Christmas period and into the New Year.

Each frame has a QR code which you need to scan. There are 10 to collect to complete the challenges on the Cannock Chase Can App. There is a challenge for each park.

Hawkins Logistics Ltd of Rugeley, have been fined £866,000.00 and £50,597.76 in costs following a tragic incident which resulted in the death of an employee. The fine was imposed at a court hearing yesterday.

On 22 November 2019, Mr Shane Smithyman was working at the logistics yard on Redbrook Lane in Rugeley when the shunter truck he was operating became uncoupled, resulting in him becoming crushed between two vehicles. Shane sadly passed away on 26 November 2019 in hospital as a result of his injuries.

Cannock Chase Council will be using the services of taxi marshals over the festive period to ensure the safety of partygoers returning home after a night out.

The initiative, which has been arranged by the Council’s Community Safety Team, will see taxi marshals present at Cannock’s taxi rank between the hours of 10pm and 4am on selected dates over the holiday season.