Newsletter confirms that Pizza Hut will be going on the B&Q site on the Lichfield Road, along with Comet, and the Sofa Store! Rather sadly the Hough, the turn of the century house on the site, is going to be a Frankie & Benny's (New York Italian inspired 50's restaurant chain, which I am sure you all knew!).
The original development was held up by the need to move the Badgers sett from the middle of the overgrown garden of the Hough. (Don't know where they went! answers on a post card!)
I encountered one of the inhabitants of said sett in the early hours one morning, while stumbling through the convent garden having scaled the wall as a short cut from the Cricket club to Wolverhampton Road.
I don't know who was more scared, me or Brock because in my alcoholic stupor I nearly trod on the unfortunate creature. I had a tux on at the time as it was the Rugby Club's Annual Dinner, so I must have looked fairly badgerish, well ... black & white anyway!
PS Stafford Rangers wonderful mascot is Bobby the Badger, a splendid creature, I have a number of pictures but not the skills to post them, Sorry!
PPS Espleys Yard development is to be a Smith & Jones Pub, part of the Barracuda Chain? It doesn't look too exciting, nice bridge though! and somewhere else to go.
PPPS Fraud Pr*ckhard has got his plans St Georges passed, lets hope he sticks to them and leaves Doxey area well alone.
PPPPS Staffs Fire & Rescue have been given an excellent rating by independant auditors, don't it make you proud? ... except i know the truth!