Collis DIY on Queen Street in Chasetown is Burntwood's biggest DIY Store and Builders' Merchant. Unfortunately it doesn't have its own website giving details like opening times etc...... These are:

Monday - Friday: 8:00am to 6:00pm
Saturday: 8:00pm to 5:30pm
Sunday & B-Hols: 9:00am to 1:00pm

Located at the same site are Collis Sheds and a cafe.

The business celebrated its 50th birthday earlier this year, as reported by The Express & Star.

A planning application by Harworth Power Ltd that sought permission from Cannock Chase Council to build three wind turbines has been withdrawn.

The energy company has notified the Council that it has withdrawn the application for the former Bleak House opencast mining site between Heath Hayes and Chase Terrace with immediate effect.

The proposed development had attracted protests from local residents group Bleakhouse Wind Farm Action Group and support from Friends of the Earth.

A wind farm development on the site may still go ahead under an agreement between Howarth Power and Peel Holdings (Energy) Limited. The agreement allows Peel Energy to seek planning permission for wind farm devleopments on land owned by UK Coal. Peel Energy has confirmed that it is likely to submit an amended application on the site following further environmental surveys.

@CannockNews reports on AboutMyArea the story of Helen Turner, a Burntwood mother whose life was saved by the Air Ambulance crew taking her to hospital.

The situation took a dramatic turn for the worse during the final stages of the helicopter journey when Helen stopped breathing and flight Paramedics needed to start resuscitation procedures as they rushed her from the helipad to the emergency suite.

Not sure about Burntwood being "in Cannock" though. :)

The Express & Star has a report about Burntwood girl Hannah Corbett getting a job with the London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic Games.

Burntwood’s Hannah Corbett has been selected to start a new life in London helping to prepare for the games as part of the Get Ahead school leavers’ programme.

The scheme, targeted at 16 to 18-year-olds, will see Hannah, who has recently left Chase Terrace Technology College, join nine other young people from across the UK to take up a position with the organising committee.