Long Standing Member and Former Borough Councillor Passes Away

Alan ‘Chippy’ Lees BEM

It is with sad regret, we have to announce our very good friend Alan “Chippy” Lees BEM passed away yesterday, Monday 23rd February 2015.

Chippy Lees, as everyone who knew him, has been a part of Tamworth for many many years, as a judo specialist, a martial arts tutor and more recently a resident who represented Castle ward on Tamworth Borough Council.

Chippy was one of a kind who preferred to eat jam doughnuts, custard tarts, Eccles cakes, chips and jelly babies to, as Chippy put it so well, the so called healthier options.  Chippy also liked to put his views across in his many letters to the local press that were always printed, not worrying what anybody said or thought.

Chippy was also a long standing member of the Conservative Party in Tamworth and he stood for election to Tamworth Borough several times before being elected in 2000 to represent the Castle ward where he had lived for so many years and continued to live.  Chippy was proud to live in Tamworth and represent his neighbours and friends on the Borough Council and he will be sorely missed.