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Stafford

Coordinates: 52°48′24″N 2°07′02″W / 52.8066°N 2.1171°W / 52.8066; -2.1171

Stafford (/ˈstæfəd/) is the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands of England. It lies approximately 16 miles (26 km) north of Wolverhampton, 18 miles (29 km) south of Stoke-on-Trent and 24 miles (39 km) north-west of Birmingham. The population in 2001 was 63,681 and that of the wider borough of Stafford 122,000, the fourth largest in the county after Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth and Newcastle-under-Lyme.

History

Stafford means 'ford' by a 'staithe' (landing place). The original settlement was on dry sand and gravel peninsula that provided a strategic crossing point in the marshy valley of the River Sow, a tributary of the River Trent. There is still a large area of marshland northwest of the town, which has always been subject to flooding, such as in 1947, 2000 and 2007.

It is thought Stafford was founded in about 700 AD by a Mercian prince called Bertelin who, according to legend, established a hermitage on the peninsula named Betheney or Bethnei. Until recently it was thought that the remains of a wooden preaching cross from this time had been found under the remains of St Bertelin's chapel, next to the later collegiate Church of St Mary in the centre of the town. Recent re-examination of the evidence shows this was a misinterpretation – it was a tree trunk coffin placed centrally in the first, timber, chapel at around the time Æthelflæd founded the burh, in 913 AD. The tree trunk coffin may have been placed there as an object of commemoration or veneration of St Bertelin.

List of Major League Baseball players with unidentified given names

Forty-one individuals who played professional baseball at the major league level lack identified given names. Identification of players remains difficult due to a lack of information; a Brooklyn, New York directory, for instance, lists more than 30 men that could be the professional player "Stoddard". Possible mistakes in reading box scores from the 19th century could have also led to players without given names: "Eland", for example, could be another player from the Baltimore Marylands roster whose name was simply misread. Four of the 41, McBride, Stafford, Sterling, and Sweigert, were local players added to the Philadelphia Athletics team by manager Bill Sharsig for Philadelphia's last game of the season against the Syracuse Stars on October 12, 1890. Sterling pitched five innings for the Athletics and conceded 12 runs. McBride, Philadelphia's center fielder, and Stafford, the team's right fielder, both failed to reach base, but left fielder Sweigert reached base on a walk and stole a base. Society for American Baseball Research writer Bill Carle "doubt[s] we will ever be able to identify them".

HM Prison Stafford

HM Prison Stafford is a Category C men's prison, located in Stafford, Staffordshire, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service.

History

Stafford Prison was built on its current site in 1793, and has been in almost continuous use, save a period between 1916 and 1939. It held Irish Internees taken by the British after the 1916 Easter Rising from May. They were released Christmas 1916.

Among its earlier prisoners was George Smith who served several sentences for theft there but began his later work as a hangman while a prisoner, assisting William Calcraft. He officiated at several executions in the prison later in his life, notably that of poisoner William Palmer in 1866.

In November 1998, an inspection report from Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons heavily criticised security at Stafford Prison, after it emerged that inmates were being supplied with drugs flown in on paper planes. Inmates were fashioning strips of paper into planes, then attaching lines to them and flying them over the 19-foot (5.8-metre) perimeter wall. The lines were then used to pull packages containing drugs and other banned substances back over the wall. The prison was also criticised for being overcrowded, under-resourced, and failing to prepare prisoners for release.

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Retro Soul Radio London R&B UK
Energy FM DJ Mixes Non-Stop Dance UK
RadioFish Country,Oldies,60s UK
Radio Wivenhoe Varied UK
Scanner: VHF Marine Radio Public UK
RAT Radio Varied UK
Gem 106 Varied UK
BBC York Varied UK
Skyline Gold 60s,Soft Rock,Rock,Oldies,Easy,Country,Classic Rock,80s,70s UK
BBC Hindi - Tees Minute News Updates,Indian UK
BBC Radio 1 Pop UK
Free Radio Herefordshire & Worcestershire Pop,Top 40 UK
Miskin Radio Pop UK
EKR - WDJ Retro Rock,Adult Contemporary,Soft Rock UK
RollinRadio Electronica UK
Hard House UK Dance UK
My Social Radio Top 40 UK
Flight FM Electronica UK
Remarkable Radio Oldies UK
80s And More 80s UK
Sunshine Gold Oldies UK
House FM Dance,Electronica,Jungle UK
Jemm Two Indie Rock UK
Rickhits Pop UK
Dance Music 24/7 - EHM Productions 90s,Dance,Electronica UK
Hope FM 90.1 Christian Contemporary UK
Phoenix Radio Rock,Classic Rock UK
Gold FM Radio Rock,90s,80s,Adult Contemporary,Pop UK
87.7 Black Cat Radio Oldies,Pop UK
Radyo 90 Sports,Folk,Pop UK
Chester Talking Newspaper Flintshire Edition News UK
URN College UK
Sauce FM Dance UK
Anfield FM Sports UK
Sky News News UK
Citybeat 96.7FM Adult Contemporary UK
BBC Hindi - Din Bhar News Updates,Indian UK
RWSfm Varied UK
BBC Surrey Varied UK
106 Jack FM Oxfordshire Adult Contemporary UK
Bradley Stoke Radio Varied UK
Energy FM Old School Classics Dance UK
Deddington OnAir Rock,Pop UK
Summer Time Radio 90s,Dance,Electronica UK
Stomp Radio R&B UK
Stress Factor Dance,Electronica UK
Total Biker FM Rock,Punk UK
BBC Manchester Varied,News UK
BrooklynFM Rock,Classic Rock UK
FRED Film Ch9 Romanian Talk UK
Fantasy radio Varied UK

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Public Technologies 21 Mar 2025
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Stafford could get a town council as part of plans to reorganise local government ... "It is my belief that a Southern Staffordshire Unitary Authority is the best option for Stafford Borough.

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Janice L. Stafford

The Paducah Sun 18 Mar 2025
Janice L. Stafford, 81, of Metropolis, passed away Saturday, March 15, 2025, at the Metropolis Nursing and Rehabilitation Center ... .
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