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Residents reassured on quarry
WORRIED residents were today reassured that work under way at a Staffordshire quarry is not the precursor to quarrying resuming at the site.
Instead, Staffordshire County Council said the work at Campions Wood Quarry, in Great Wyrley, near Cannock, is aimed at stopping the antics of dangerous motorists.
The Wolverhampton Road quarry has become an "illegal adventure playground" for drivers of off road vehicles who are using it as a "racetrack" since it ceased quarrying operations.
Now the owners are working to secure the site in a bid to keep the off road drivers, who are putting lives at risk and making residents' lives a misery, out.
The reassurance follows scores of calls from concerned families living near the site.
Bruce Braithwaite, the council's strategic waste policy officer, said: "The activities of these motorists are dangerous and have caused considerable annoyance to local people."
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