Pupils won a grant from English Nature to build their own mini farm, nature trail and wildlife reserve. The photograph shows (from left) Darren Taylor, Stephen Fletcher, Simon Hackett and Nigel Lear, along with Geoff Vine.

Eleven teenagers travelled to St James’s Palace for the presentation of their Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award by Prince Philip, two years after they won it, because of the long waiting list of winners from the Midlands. Sue Ravenscroft is quoted. The photogr

Health Authority staff assisted by colelagues from Cannock Chase District Council set up a mobile display unit giving advice on healthy lifestyles, how to avoid food-related illnesses such as salmonella, along with free computerised health assessments. Ru

Paramedics from Bolton Ambulance Station, Greater Manchester, and Northwich, Cheshire, were hiking to Westminster to call on MPs to support their pay battle, and they were setting off from Stafford on the seventh day of their walk. Kingswinford and COHSE

A helicopter from the West Midlands Air Ambulance landed on Stafford Common for people to view as part of a fundraising drive, before it was called out on emergency calls to Leek, Stoke City General Hospital, Rugeley and the Stafford and District General

The RSPCA presented the team with a certificate after they rescued a dog who had fallen down a disused well on the edge of Stafford Castle Golf Course in Newport Road, and was trapped underground. Kevin Deakes is mentioned. The photograph shows Mike Hartl

The youth club won the county final of a national fire prevention quiz, sponsored by the Fire Protection Association and organised by the Chief and Assistant Chief Fire Officers Association, and would go on to represent Staffordshire in the Midlands distr

Veterans involved in the Battle of El Alamein, including the Staffordshire Yeomanry, the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, and The Buffs East Kent tank regiment, were to invited to an exhibition marking the battle’s 50th anniversary. Dennis Roberts, Bobbington and

Part-time soldiers took part in Exercise Polar Bear alongside regular Army and Special Air Service Units, watched by defence secretary Tom King. Sandra Massey of Campbell Close in Tamworth is quoted. Stonehenge, Walsall, Tamworth, Stafford, Lichfield, Sto

Mayor Councillor Matt Guymer, along with business people from Stafford, Cannock and Stoke-on-Trent, were invited to a launch of a new engineer unit. The photograph shows the reigning Miss Stafford Pageant Queen, Vanessa Gant of Coton Fields, alongside Tin