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📻 A journalist, a sports commentator and a politician all being interviewed together on BBC Stoke & Staffordshire… and nothing went wrong!! 💷 We’ve just reached the £6,500 mark in our fundraising - can you help us reach the magic £10,000? ⬇️ Details on how to donate below. Thank you.

🌻 Thanks for all the messages of support ahead of our 4-day charity trek across the #Staffordshire Way which starts early tmrw. It means a lot. Sponsor details below… 🫶 All for our beloved Dougie Mac

11 miles in. Please sponsor us if you’re able! justgiving.com/page/dougiemac…

Day 4. Come on

And we’re done. 92 miles. Four days. Seven friends. Searing heat. Brutal terrain. Feet in bits. Utterly exhausted. We’ve walked from the top of Staffordshire to the very southern tip. £11,000 raised so far for our beloved Dougie Mac. Thanks to all our sponsors and supporters

🗣️Calling all Young Conservative Councillors. The next LGA Young Councillors weekend is taking place between the 8th-9th November at Warwick University. Contact us for more details👇👇👇

😮‍💨 That was a week… 🥾 Recovered from walking the #StaffordshireWay 🍾 Shared the news of my University of Staffordshire Honorary Doctorate award 🤨 Had a bit of ‘me time’ 🗣️ Attended national/local gov asylum taskforce 🗒️ Localis Board meeting ✍️ Prepped for next week’s Local Government Association (LGA) conf…

Empowering people and places to shape the future of local government. With over 130 speakers, 110 exhibitions and nearly 1700 delegates, #LGAConf25 is set to be the event of the year. All in the beautiful city of Liverpool! View the programme: orlo.uk/nPGi8

🏗️ A really fab night at ArtSlam with CAPITAL&CENTRIC in the Astley Place development. Pleased to see this fantastic trio of projects moved forward by Newcastle-u-Lyme BC, some great work by Simon Tagg. Appetite brought the art & tunes, good to catch up with lots of familiar faces!

🐿️ Spent a lovely afternoon y’day at Keele University 🐿️ - top of our list was the Observatory, which didn’t disappoint. Also nice to explore Keele Hall & learn more about the Smart Energy Network Demonstrator. Despite having studied here, so much I didn’t know about! #KeeleDay

🔵We're looking forward to welcoming hundreds of Conservative Councillors to #LGAConf25 this week. If you're at conference, please do come and say hello👇👇👇

And we're off for #LGAConf25! Cllr Abi Brown OBE OBE gives us a tour of the #InnovationZone, with three interactive stages and great coffee from our sponsors Newton, there's something for everyone!

🥾 Today is your final chance to sponsor our #StaffordshireWay 4-day trek. Thank you so much to everyone who supported us in our endeavours to just give a little bit back to the incredible Dougie Mac 🌻

🔵Congratulations to Councillor Keith Girling for winning back Newark West in Nottinghamshire, fantastic result 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼

🌦️ After a scorchio week, I don’t mind the rain! 🎙️ Busy 4 days at Local Government Association (LGA) conf, chairing panels on housing, assurance & digital plus re-elected as LGA Conservatives dep leader. 🗣️ Home for 2 Stoke-on-Trent CC meetings ☕️ And today, catchups with good folks incl Bear Force HQ Boss.

Ahead of next week’s final judging, it’s been another round of scoring the incredible 224 entries to this year’s University of Staffordshire Business Awards. The standard of applications across all 13 award categories demonstrates that Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent is a place of possibility!

Abi. The first of many exciting events happening in the next few months! Some very special guests at RAF Valley with Ascent Flight Training 72 Squadron & Adi Higham (Adrian)

Good to spend time speaking to residents across Meir Hay, Parkhall & Weston Coyney today. Lots of positive conversations in the warm weather ☀️ #NotJustElectoonTime #torycavass

It was fantastic to be part of yesterday's successful World Record attempt 💪 Cream scones, tea, and excellent conversation; a fantastic way of celebrating 100 years of city status!

As I was MCing I didn’t take any pics today as University of Staffordshire hosted the first 3 of 21 Graduation ceremonies on campus. I will rectify this tmrw. But in the meantime I just want to say a huge thank you to all our teams for bringing the magic. It’s been a fabulous first day. 🙌