Christmas lights go on across Willenhall today in spite of the best efforts of Walsall’s Tory lead Council reports Cllr Ian Shires Chair of the Willenhall Partnership.

“My thanks go to the hard work put in by members of the partnership. In particular I’d like to thank the Community Forum for their persistance in pressing this project. If it was left to the Tories in Walsall, Willenhall would have been a very dreary place this Christmas.”

Walsall’s Tory cabinet made a decision to go scrooge like when they set this years budget as a result Christmas festivities in Willenhall would have been confined to a few lights strung across the market place in the centre of the town.

As it is, as well as lights in Willenhall town centre, lights will go on today in High Road, Lane Head and at The Square on the Lichfield Road, New Invention.