Seighford

CONCERNS about narrow lanes may not be enough to prevent permanent polytunnels being built in Seighford. A J Busby and Son want the structures to grow strawberries on land at Coton Clanford. They already have planning permission to grow the berries ...

A NEW minister has been licensed by the Bishop of Stafford to serve a rural parish near Eccleshall. Rev Doug Heming, priest in charge of Chebsey with Norton Bridge, Ellenhall, Ranton and Seighford with Creswell, was licensed at a service at St Chad's ...

A SEIGHFORD playwright's dark comedy with a sting in the tail is intriguing audiences at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Stafford-based Blue Suit Theatre Company made its debut at the world's largest arts event with its thought-provoking production ...

PLANS to increase the height of wind turbines in Seighford by 40 per cent have been refused. Gemma Chalk already has permission to install the two turbines on land at Ashes covert, in Seighford Lane, but she applied to put bigger ones there. The new ...

The borough council had already given permission for two turbines on Seighford Lane which would have been 141 ft tall from the base to the tip of the highest blade. But now plans have been re-entered for larger structures, one 186ft tall and one 200ft ...

AUTISTIC students at Rugeley School in Blithbury are celebrating after winning a Green Tree Gold Award from the Woodland Trust. Pictured are Jack Collier and his teacher Bronia Shorthose, sawing wood in the school forest which was one of the projects ...