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Residents ‘let down for years’

Angry residents say they feel ignored and let down as highways bosses are refusing to do anything about the state of their Stafford road despite years of desperate pleas. Householders in Border Way,

Army delay may be 'good news'

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A delay in turning MoD Stafford into a super garrison could ultimately be good news for town businesses, industry chiefs say. The proposals, which include moving 1,200 soldiers from 1 Signal Brigade

Hospital chief fears news media frenzy

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The boss of Stafford’s troubled hospital is urging politicians to grant a public inquiry sooner rather than later amid fears another “media frenzy” could hit staff morale. Antony

Residents hit out over play area litter

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Fed-up stafford residents say they are sick of the mountain of litter and mess clogging up their estate and are urging something to be done about it. Meadowcroft Park householders say the

Numbers add up to help cancer teenagers

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CARING stafford pupils took a maths tip from the 1960s to support a fellow student with leukaemia. Krypto, a number-crunching game similar to the number rounds in TV’s Countdown, was revived by

Residents braced to fight wind farm plans

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Plans for six huge wind turbines in the countryside near Stafford which have caused outrage among residents are now set to be submitted in May. Householders in Church Eaton, High Onn and Marston are

Phew - what a scorcher for Keith

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A daring Gnosall runner is planning a scorching fundraising challenge to trek 150 miles across the Sahara Desert. Keith Robins, 54, is taking part in the Marathon des Sables in April and aims to raise


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Plea for help on fire

QUICK-THINKING residents who may have caught images on camera of a fire in Rugeley are being urged to contact police. Emergency services were called to a blaze in a flat above a shop in Fernwood

YouTube appeal for abandoned baby's mother

AN APPEAL to trace the mother of a baby left outside a mosque in Stoke-on-Trent wrapped in pages of the Newsletter has been launched on YouTube.The newborn boy was left outside the Beresford Street site

Sean Hughes' perils of growing old

Review - Sean Hughes, Stafford Gatehouse Theatre, March 14 WHILE MANY offspring took their mums to dinner for Mother’s Day a trip to the Gatehouse to hear Sean Hughes’ “evil

Readers could hold vital clue to baby

NEWSLETTER readers could hold the clue to the identity of a woman who left her newborn baby at a mosque hours before he died - wrapped in pages of the newspaper.Police say the pages from the January

Arson attack ‘risked lives’

AN ARSON attack which severely damaged the former St George’s Hospital building will not stop refurbishment plans, property magnate Fred Pritchard has said.The Pritchard Group chief executive


Local Sports News


Runner's six big race challenges

Dentist deon Vlok is set to get his teeth into more than the 13.1 miles he will cover in Sunday’s Stafford half marathon. The Stafford Harriers member has planned a marathon target of six long

Rangers bid to maintain league status

Stafford rangers return home for the first of three successive matches at Marston Road as they look to secure their Blue Square North status for another season. With the league table adjusted after

Sharon chases best time

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Stafford leisure Centre (SLC) receptionist, Sharon Whinnerah has a big incentive to complete this weekend’s Stafford half marathon. Her husband Richard, who also works at SLC as operations



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