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by Harworth Power Ltd that sought permission from Cannock Chase Council to build three wind turbines has been withdrawn.

The energy company has notified the Council that it has withdrawn the application for the former Bleak House opencast mining site between Heath Hayes and Chase Terrace with immediate effect.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

It has been reported that South Staffordshire PCT have become the first trust in the region to reveal a mass vaccination plan against swine flu.

Mr John Wicks, Flu Lead Director for the PCT informed the Trust Board that the whole population covered by the PCT will be given the vaccine (two injections 3 weeks apart) during the autumn months, on top of the annual flu vaccination programme.

The Trust are expecting a big surge of cases of swine flu over the winter months. They have estimated 184,650 cases of the H1N1 virus during the pandemic. Government figures suggest that this could result in between 185 and 646 deaths. Mr Wicks also commented that there had been a sharp increase in cases with South Staffordshire now one of the three areas in the West Midlands with the highest rate of infections. Between 80 to 100 people are collecting Tamilflu a day.