Jennie Aitken
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BBC Stoke & Staffordshire Political Reporter 📻🎥💻 @bbcradiostoke & #PoliticsMidlands & @bbcmtd
Joined September 2014
Reform-led council to focus on wasteful spending.
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Leader Ian Cooper tells the BBC his party plans to "lift a few drains and see what comes out".
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RT @bbcmtd: 'Government must speed up maternity care changes'
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Theo Clarke spoke at the launch of her book detailing her own harrowing maternity experiences.
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It's the morning after Staffordshire turned turquoise - catchup here:.BBC News - Reform UK takes control of Staffordshire County Council - BBC News.
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Reform UK gain a majority, despite going into the election with no councillors in the county.
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Leaders back idea for Staffordshire and two councils 👇.
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Staffordshire's political leaders agree devolution plan to send to ministers.
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Plan to unlock city's prosperity taken to No 10.
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A delegation of local leaders has taken a document detailing plans to transform the city.
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Brrr 🥶 Devolution gets chilly response from street with five councils .
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Residents of a single street where five councils provide services take a dim view of amalgamation.
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What we learnt from the @SoTCityCouncil leader on @BBCRadioStoke ⬇️.
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Jane Ashworth responds to BBC Radio Stoke listeners' concerns on council tax and devolution.
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'No easy solutions' - @AllisonCGardner on community stand-off over traveller site work.
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Stafford councillor Alec Sandiford describes it as a "nightmare" situation for local residents.
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More on what the assisted dying vote means to this Staffordshire family coming up on #PoliticsMidlands 📺 .
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Joy Munns wishes assisted dying was lawful when her father was terminally ill.
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✍️ Too proud for payments from government? Millions left unclaimed in benefits in Stoke-on-Trent .
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As temperatures plummet, people are urged to claim pension credit, to access winter fuel payments.
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Budget relax: a 'kick in the teeth' for Stoke-on-Trent businesses .
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Stoke-on-Trent business owners react to Budget
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Report found Tory MP 'abused his position of power' by touching a woman inappropriately. In a statement he apologised and said this is why he didn't stand for re-election in the summer.
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Aaron Bell stepped down as the Newcastle-under-Lyme MP earlier this year citing personal and family reasons.
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Smiles despite defeat for the now former Conservative Stafford MP Theo Clarke- who says the reform vote of over 8,000 cost her the seat.
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🗳️ Victory for Labour’s Leigh Ingham, Stafford’s new MP elect- who says it’s been a very intense campaign convincing voters that Labour is a changed party and she’s not taking any votes for granted. She secured the seat with 18,531 votes.
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Breaking 🔴 Stafford has a new MP- Labour for the first time since 2010. Leigh Ingham won with 18,000 votes, a majority of 5000.
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Nail biting across the parties here in Stafford- over in the red corner Labour wait anxiously for the result due anytime in the next hour. Here it live on @BBCRadioStoke 📻
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Stafford’s Conservative MPs past and. possibly present? Hoping to find out in the next hour or so if Theo Clarke will hold or lose to Labour’s Leigh Ingham. Theo talking to Jeremy Lefroy who served 2010-2019
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Popping up mid maternity leave to bring you the result in #Stafford - where turnout is ⬇️ since 2019 to 65.39% - it could be neck and neck for Labour and Conservative candidates here with Theo Clarke hoping to cling on. Meanwhile Reform confident they’ll get a 20% vote share.
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The fab @journoanna_ @BBCRadioStoke has your Stoke & Staffs election coverage from the campaigns to the comings and goings… strap in! ☕️ .* straps in on from the mat leave sidelines 👶🏼 *.
My new mug feels very fitting for reporting on a Staffordshire general election - so looking forward to the next few weeks!!🦆🗳️
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