For Sale: a small cottage business in Chapel Lane. Sell-it has been on its site near the railway station for over 20 years, but the owners have now decided to sell up and move on to their retirement. The business is successful and well known. It has now been bought by a partnership trading as "Trade-it", who will provide an outlet for people to dispose of their second hand goods for cash. Such a novel idea...
Linda Snell of Ambridge and classical music expert Richard Baker will be in Codsall during March for the biannual Arts Festival. Snell's March 15 talk, entitled At Home In Ambridge, will detail the life of another small country village from the viewpoint of someone who's lived there for 15 years. The village has become famous around the country since a daily BBC documentary about it started in 1951. Baker's talk, four nights later, will be about the history of the cello. Tickets for these and 17 other events are available from Kalidescope in Codsall, JD Sports in Birches Bridge, and Codsall High School foyer.
Codsall library underwent a major upgrade in February. After years of underfunding, the library was finally converted to use a computerised borrowing system, in place of the card tickets that have been used since the invention of the printing press. The change, the last in the county, allows staff to keep records of who borrows what more easily than before, and gives borrowers just one ticket to lose.
Local MP and Deputy Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Sir Patrick Cormack is recovering from an operation on his arm. Dale Campbell-Savors, the Labour member for Workington in Cumbria brought Sir Patrick's lack of a tie to the attention of Dame Betty Boothroyd, the Commons speaker. With a far better show of grace, Betty pointed out that Sir Patrick had a reasonable excuse for breaking the Commons convention.
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