... Helping keep the past alive A GROUP of Burntwood people are keeping the past alive with a little help from their friends. join us, said keeper Anthony Everall. The 12-strong group is staging a Night of Nostalgia at St John's Community ...

... Snakes alive —it's Lea and friend! CITY shoppers may have been somewhat alarmed to see a young man carrying a live snake around the streets of Lichfield. Lea Chadwick, aged 20, of Upper St. John Street, bought his three feet long snake three months ago ...

... Leisure Ti Pop is alive and well and living in Lichfield POP music is very much alive in Lichfield that was the message sent out by last Friday night's showcase of up-and-coming bands at the Guildhall. Shenstone's popular power-pop trio McCleod headline ...

... Etching Hill, enjoys modern dancing, keep fit classes and ice skating to keep her 35-24-36 figure in trim. Local lovely Lorraine Preston, aged 18, of Irving Close, Lichfield, works at Trent Valley Home Centre and keeps her figure in trim by practising gymnastics ...

... Arts Bright star at the Rep IT MAY be a cliched thing to say, but Peter 0' Toole has ,star quality. There was a buzz of expectancy around Birmingham Rep as the audience waited for the notorious actor's first appearance as John Tanner in George Bernard ...

... Organisers 'keeping fingers crossed' for town's big Festival RUGELEY Arts Festival, the Arts Council's biggest twelve months to organise, opens tomorrow (Saturday) The three-week festival will be launched by the Welsh National Opera's Opera for . All ...

... were thrown away needlessly. Joanne Cursley also worked hard at keeping her cool as the scheming Ginny. Hers was an airy, lightweight performance marred only by her constant desire to keep moving as though she was being attacked by ants. They made a w ...

... outdone. a 71 year-old All areas of the Arts gent cycled 50 miles need to be covered, along canal towpaths. which is why the plans, Even now three Lichfield which are now at an youths are walking over advanced stage, will the Cairngorm mountains provide ...

... LET THE EDITOR LOOK AFTER OUR 'FAIR' LOCAL PAPER Sad day for art I WAS saddened to read last week's Mercury that the picture loan service may be on the 'ray out. !his service was started with the object of arousing public interest in paintings. In the ...

... there was always the pro- Th e cast, ordsestra and beck when the two man company dozen characters in a stage whits- blew of the starry eyed daughters stage crew have been in rehearsal comes to Lichfield. tation of Jane Austen's falling straight for the fl ...

... much point in leaving them show —no-one is to seed one. next to nothing he KEEP OUT CANNOCK CHASE 2,700 acres of tinder-dry scrubland hu been dose d to the public. 'keep Out' sodas ore being posted mound the area which normally attracts about 10,000 ...

... COME ON-ROLL YOUR SLEEVES UP IF YOU WANT TO KEEP TIDY candidates entered external examinations. On the school's sporting activities Geoffrey Hill said they were in some difficulty with only one gymnasium and a playing field provided for 500 pupils only ...