Former Tamworth Mayor Passes Away
Cllr Brian Beale, the Mayor of Tamworth in 2008/09, passed away this week after a courageous battle against cancer.
Cllr Beale, who had been suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma for several months, passed away at his home in the early hours of Boxing Day surrounded by family and friends.
Cllr Brian Beale was first voted onto Tamworth Borough Council in May 2000, when he was elected to represent the Glascote ward. He held the seat until 2002, and was then re-elected onto the Borough Council in 2003 as ward councillor Wilnecote, where he had lived for many years with his wife Val.
In 2008, Brian became the Mayor of Tamworth and in 2009, he was elected onto Staffordshire County Council representing the Stonydelph division. Brian was also the Borough Council’s Cabinet member for Community Safety until 2012 and the current Chairman of the Licensing committee.
Away from politics, Cllr Beale ran a successful engineering company. He is survived by his wife Val and his two children, Clare and Dean.
