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Investment planned to continue libraries’ success
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STAFFORDSHIRE’S transformed library service is all set to continue thriving with investment committed until 2025. The proposal follows the service’s evolution in recent years while maintaining 43 libraries across the county. There are now 27...
Local businesses are being urged to join this years Tamworth Urban Arts and Sports Festivities
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Local businesses are being urged to join this years Tamworth Urban Arts and Sports Festival and sponsor activities for the month-long event in 2020. To celebrate 10 years of NUE Organiser's plan to host a...
Music star Tony Hadley’s visit is pure ‘Gold!’ for everyone at St Giles Hospice
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Yes, this is ‘True’.  It was ‘with pleasure’ that St Giles Hospice welcomed pop star and former Spandau Ballet frontman Tony Hadley this month. He created a ‘glow’ when he visited the Whittington site...
Meet TV auctioneer at John Lewis Tamworth event
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SPECIALISTS from the world of jewellery, antiques and auctions have teamed up with John Lewis & Partners Tamworth for an exclusive pre-Christmas event. The Ventura Park store will be welcoming Richard Winterton Auctioneers for...
Local author EJ Parry has a successful book signing event at WHSmith
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On Saturday 23rd Nov, local author Ed Parry held a book signing event at WHSmith in Ventura Park. The event was a great success with many people stopping to chat about Ed’s mysterious dark thriller...
Craig Charles to DJ at Statfold Barn Festival 2020
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The legendary Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show is coming to the Statfold Barn Festival next summer. The actor, broadcaster and Radio 2 DJ has been captivating crowds throughout the UK for many years...
Local Artists create Christmas album to raise funds to help Elderly Tamworth Residents
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Local Artists Teresa Meads and Michael Eades have collaborated on a Christmas Album that will help raise funds to purchase gifts and meals for Elderly Tamworth Residents this Christmas. Almost one million older people are...
Six black and white TVs still in use in Tamworth as BBC One in colour hits 50
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As BBC One celebrates its 50th anniversary of colour TV this week, TV Licensing has revealed households in Tamworth are still watching TV programmes on black and white TV sets. There were six1 black and...
Join The Royal Sutton Coldfield Orchestra for their Family Christmas Concert
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The Royal Sutton Coldfield Orchestra are performing their Family Christmas Concerts at The Coton Centre, Tamworth, B79 9AA on Saturday 7th December at 4pm & 7:30pm. They will be joined on this occasion by...
Get ready to create a dazzling Christmas tree for annual church display
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It’s that time of year when people of all ages can show off their festive creativity and take part in an annual Tamworth tradition by decorating a Christmas tree for St Editha’s Church. Tamworth Borough...
Stay safe this Halloween with these simple tips
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FAMILIES can have a safe and enjoyable Halloween by following a few simple tips, the county’s communities leader has said. Advice includes making sure adults accompany younger children when out and about, ensuring Halloween costumes...
Families invited to remember loved ones this Christmas at St Giles ‘Light up a Life’ services
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THE mother of a woman who was supported by St Giles Hospice is inviting people to make a special dedication to the memory of their loved ones at the charity’s 'Light up a Life' services...
Make a lantern at free workshop to join Christmas parade
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YOUNGSTERS are being invited to attend free drop-in workshops taking place in Ankerside Shopping Centre, where they will be able to make special lanterns to carry in this year’s Christmas Lantern parade in Tamworth. The...
Hundreds get creative as Art Attack returned with a splat
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TAMWORTH town centre came alive with colour and creativity on Saturday, October 12, as the popular Art Attack returned with a splat for the third year running. Hundreds of people of all ages took part...
Work starts to create new interactive Anglo-Saxon gallery at Tamworth Castle
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BUILDING work has now started to transform the top floor of Tamworth Castle into a brand new interactive exhibition dedicated to the town’s rich Anglo-Saxon heritage. Funded in large part by The National Lottery Heritage...
130 prizes up for grabs to mark 130 years of Tamworth Assembly Rooms
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OCTOBER 8, 1889 was a momentous day in Tamworth’s history. Reported at the time as one that would be 'long remembered by the present generation and those who, in years to come, are entrusted with...
The ‘pork’ of the town; disappearing pigs are not for the chop!
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PEOPLE may notice Tamworth’s popular herd of pigs disappearing from their homes around the town in the coming weeks, but don’t worry they will be back! (not streaky) The disappearing pig sculptures on the Trotters...
You can vote for Tamworth business in the running for a top award!
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VANILLA Underground, based in Tamworth, is in the running for a top award for Midlands family businesses - and the voting is now open for you to show your support! Vanilla Underground is a first-generation...
Second Counterfeit Beatles date added due to popular demand!
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IT may be almost 60 years since the world-famous rock group The Beatles performed in Tamworth, but Beatlemania is still very much alive and kicking in the town, with a second date being added for...
Make a lantern at free workshop to join Christmas parade
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YOUNGSTERS are being invited to attend free drop-in workshops taking place in Ankerside Shopping Centre, where they will be able to make special lanterns to carry in this year’s Christmas Lantern parade in Tamworth. The...
Kettlebrook Students start the New Year with flying colours
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Students from Kettlebrook Short Stay School have started the new school year with flying colours after giving a rundown outdoor quad area a much-needed makeover. The work was made possible after local art group, New...
Creatures of the sky welcome visitors to Tamworth station
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TAMWORTH Train Station are the proud owners of three new pieces of art by artists Annatomix, Affix and Sophie Long thanks to a kind donation from Tamworth arts group New Urban Era. The artwork was...
Tamworth business in the running for a top award!
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VANILLA Underground, based in Tamworth, is in the running for a top award for Midlands family businesses. Vanilla Underground is a first-generation family business and was started by Jason & Deniz Yarnell, husband and...
Images from UK’s biggest crowd sourced photography exhibition paint an extraordinary picture of life in modern Britain
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FUJIFILM has released 28 astonishing entries for its MyLife exhibition aimed at millennials from the thousands of entries that have been submitted so far. You may remember that last month, on world photography day (19...
Countdown to Lichfield’s 2019 proms extravaganza
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WITH the big event taking place in just over a week, excitement is mounting for Lichfield Proms in Beacon Park on Saturday 7 September. Lichfield District Council is working hard to make sure its twenty-first...
New Tamworth author has first book published
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A TAMWORTH based author has had his first book published. Titled Golem, it is the first book in a series and is available to buy from all good book stores. Golem is the first book...
Local Artist Paints a Blinder
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TAMWORTH artist Sue Verity has had one of her paintings selected to be part of the promotion campaign for the upcoming series 5 of the BBC’s TV show Peaky Blinders. Sue’s blinder of a painting...
Free Art Exhibition – It’s a Wrap… Well, Almost!
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AFTER receiving so much interest in the pop-up art gallery at Ankerside Shopping Centre, Vic Brown of New urban era and Ankerside centre manager Mark Burbridge have decided to keep it open until the...