Pixabay A CANDLE-LIT vigil is being held in the Dudley borough to mark the passing of a year since the country first went into lockdown due to coronavirus. The vigil will be pre-recorded and released on Dudley Council’s Facebook and Twitter channels at 6pm this Sunday (March 21). The service will be led by Reverend James Treasure, vicar at Top Church in Dudley, and it will include a reading from West Midlands Deputy Lieutenant Richard Boot and footage of key workers lighting candles to mark the occasion. Senior Dudley Council figures including the Mayor of Dudley, Councillor David Stanley; leader of the council, Councillor Patrick Harley; and leader of the opposition, Councillor Qadar Zada, will also light candles.
Candle-lit vigil to mark one year since first Covid lockdown
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Candle-lit vigil to mark one year since first Covid lockdown
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Pic: Dudley Council house COUNCIL tax in Dudley will increase by just under five per cent in April after councillors clashed over who should pay for the pandemic. The Conservative-run authority said the rise will protect services while Labour accused the government of passing the cost of Covid onto local tax payers. Cllr Steve Clark, cabinet member for financial and legal services, said Dudley had received an extra £200 million government cash during the pandemic. Proposing £5 million savings this year he emphasised Dudley had also attracted hundreds of millions for regeneration projects in the past year. On council services, he said: “Over the next three years we will be providing net additional investment rising to £8 million a year into adult social care helping to manage rising costs and the complexity and rising numbers of people requiring care.