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The day that Villa won the league
It is a date which will remain forever etched in Aston Villa folklore – and it’s not winning the European Cup either. It is Saturday 2 May 1981, when
Villa were Football League champions for the first time in 71 years, after 42 games, and the use of just 14 players. To celebrate the remarkable 1980/81 season, Cornerstone and Chris Green Media will be working with players from the title-winning squad on the Aston Villa 40th Anniversary Tribute. During the 2020/21 season a
series of ‘Meet the Champions’ events will be held enabling fans to share happy memories with squad members. The AV40 Tribute will be
formally launched on 20 August 2020 with the publication of a book containing the programme covers and reports of every match played during the championship season, player profiles, rare photographs and personal recollections from the players. For more details, visit
www.av40tribute.com
Zoo welcomes eight new arrivals ahead of reopening
A Staffordshire-based theme park and zoo is celebrating the births of eight new baby animals, who arrived just in time for its grand reopening last month. Drayton Manor Park recently
welcomed a new baby spider monkey, scarlet macaw and two Fiji iguanas into the world, as well as pygmy Marmoset and emperor tamarin twins. The park’s new baby female
spider monkey was born to parents Maya and Snarfy and brings the number of spider monkeys at the park to six. Sally and Jasper, both scarlet
New arrival: One of the spider monkeys at Drayton Manor
Charity launches virtual bucket appeal
Unable to host bucket collections due to the pandemic, Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is urging the public to continue to donate their pennies and pounds via a virtual bucket collection. Each year the charity relies
on collection tin and bucket donations to fund the yearly fuel consumption for all three of the rapid response service’s helicopters. Unfortunately, the charity is forecasting a £5m fundraising income
deficit this year due, to the coronavirus pandemic. Despite this, demand for the service has continued to rise as the
country moves out of lockdown with missions increasing by a third over recent months. The charity is therefore shaking its online collection bucket and is encouraging anyone who can spare a few pennies to visit:
justgiving.com/campaign/maaconlinebucketcollection. The latest initiative has been launched at the same time the charity
would have hosted its Tatenhill Airbase Open Day, and will run for 11 weeks until the Strensham Airbase Open Day, on 13 September. Emma Gray, the charity’s fundraising and marketing director, said: “As
a number of our popular fundraising events have been postponed or cancelled, opportunities for bucket collections have become scarce. “We would welcome any support that local people can provide to help bridge the 48 per cent gap we are expecting to experience.”
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Not too snobby: Stacey’s Snobs drawing
Sketching the lockdown
A Birmingham businessman has turned a lockdown pastime into a new venture that has helped charities in the city. Stacey Barnfield, director of
Edwin Ellis Creative Media PR and publishing agency, shared his daily sketches of iconic locations during lockdown with the hashtags #isolationart and #lockdownart. The drawings proved so popular
on social media they were printed as a series of postcards to benefit the city charity LoveBrum and its OneBrum campaign. Sales of the postcards contributed over £750 to
OneBrum. Stacey now sells his watercolour and ink drawings through the website
www.drawmycity.co.uk and donates £5 from each sale to Digbeth homelessness charity Sifa Fireside. The sketches feature buildings
such as the Town Hall, Birmingham Cathedral, St Paul’s Church, Gas Street Basin, the Custard Factory and, one of the most popular prints, Snobs nightclub. Stacey said: “I’ve been blown
away by the social media response It’s fantastic that people are helping charities in Birmingham.”
macaws, also welcomed their first chick earlier this month, after moving to the zoo in 2017. The two new Fiji iguana babies are also part of the European Breeding Programme, with their mother moving to Drayton Manor from Augsberg Zoo in Germany, and father from Vienna Zoo in July 2018. The park’s two sets of twin
monkeys have been very active during their first few weeks. Also part of the European Breeding Programme, the pygmy marmoset twins are raised by all members of the group, giving mum Wicket and dad Chillado, a much-needed break. Chris Mitchell, head of zoo
operations at Drayton Manor Park, said: “We’re absolutely delighted to be welcoming so many new animals into the park this month ahead of our reopening, not least because six out of eight of them are classed as vulnerable or endangered species. “Conservation is a huge part of
our programme at Drayton Manor Park, and being able to watch our babies interact with their families knowing we are helping to boost the numbers of a vulnerable species, is fantastic. “We can’t wait to welcome
visitors to the zoo again, and I’m sure our animals are looking forward to seeing some new faces too.”
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