Stafford engineer Martin Latham – who holds a senior post in the West Midlands aerospace industry - has described the important role aeronautics plays in the UK and especially West Midlands enginee

Ellie Simmonds, the double Paralympics gold medallist, started a charity cycle ride in Stafford on 27th September.

The Street Pastors project was launched in Stafford on September 28th.

Stafford Town Amateur Boxing Club, based at the Emerald Club on Marston Road, was officially opened on 25th August.

The news of the conviction of a loan shark in Manchester shows the importance of local credit unions.

Jeremy has welcomed the news that the cut in the number of acute hospital beds in the new University Hospital of North Staffordshire (UHNS) is being reconsidered.

Tackling rising unemployment in the Stafford area is a top priority for me.

The European election results for Stafford Borough (which covers most of Stafford and Stone constituencies) were:

Conservatives 14,057 34%
UKIP 8,546 21%

All four Labour-held seats in Stafford were won by the Conservatives in the elections on June 4th. Every county councillor in Stafford constituency is now a Conservative.

Staffordshire is now run by the Conservatives for the first time since 1981.

The final result is

Conservatives 49 seats 43% of vote
Labour 3 seats 18%