Cannock Chase Council is urging football fans to ‘show domestic abuse the red card’ with the start of the European Championship this week.

Cabinet members at Cannock Chase Council plan to allocate funding towards the Commonwealth Games’ mountain biking event taking place at Cannock Chase Forest next summer.

This follows the allocation of £50,000 last year towards the new blue graded mountain bike trail currently under construction by Forestry England at Birches Valley that will form part of the Games’ course.

At its meeting this Thursday (10 June), the Cabinet is looking to allocate £50,000 of funding made available in September 2020.

The town of Rugeley has bid farewell to its four, 117m high concrete cooling towers that have dominated the skyline for decades, after a controlled collapse demolition event on Sunday 6 June. Members of the community watched the livestreamed event to remove the last major component of Rugeley B Power Station following the plant’s closure in 2016.

A Wolverhampton man has been found guilty of fly tipping waste relating to cultivating cannabis in Little Wryley.

Shaun Lee of Oak Tree Caravan Park in Featherstone was found guilty of fly tipping at Cannock Magistrates Court on 18 May 2021.

Magistrates heard that on the 23 January 2020, Mr Lee had fly tipped waste in Wryley Lane, Little Wryley, Staffordshire.  The waste related to the cultivation of cannabis plants.

Cannock Chase leads the way as Keep Britain Tidy launches its Great British Spring Clean. 

In the past 12 months, people have relied on the places close to home; the local park or the chase, as somewhere to escape to, to exercise and to play.

Now, Cannock Chase Council has pledged its support for Keep Britain Tidy’s annual campaign and is asking all its residents do their bit and clear up the litter that can blight these places as part of its Great British Spring Clean.

Cannock Chase Council, in partnership with Inspiring Healthy Lifestyles (IHL) and the Football Foundation are investing £1.25m to improve facilities at Rugeley Leisure Centre.

Improvement works include, the installation of a new heating, hot water and energy system within the centre; this work is a prerequisite to the recommissioning of the swimming pool.  The swimming pool will be retiled and recommissioned as part of the new pool plant and water treatment systems.  This work is scheduled to complete at the end of August 2021.

Members of Cannock Chase Council have made appointments to key roles at their Annual Council Meeting held last night (19 May). They follow the recent District Council Elections on 6 May.

Councillors have also agreed on a proposal to share the chief executive role with neighbouring Stafford Borough Council.