RE-ELECTED Kinver councillor Victoria Wilson has told how she hopes to push the case for more volunteering in the community after safely hanging onto her county council seat in last week's local election.

Conservative councillor Victoria Wilson was re-elected the May 6 election to serve as South Staffordshire County councillor for Kinver.

Cllr Wilson, who has held the seat since 2017, secured 2,911 votes, with Green Party candidate Bernadette McGourty picking up 546 votes and Labour's Lorna Jones polling 453 votes.

She told the News: "I am absolutely delighted to have been trusted to represent our beautiful communities in Kinver division for a further four years.

"There is so much I still want us all to achieve together. I want to tackle issues such as the flooding in our villages and I’m very pleased to see that work finally begins on the Stewponey crossroads later this month.

"I also want to encourage more positive community work. As Cabinet member for Communities and Culture, I’d like to promote more volunteering, as it’s a way of getting people out and about, meeting others and making a difference locally.

"It’s good to see our library volunteers are back again in Kinver, after a long winter of having to stay away and I believe helping people engage in their parishes is such a great way of reducing loneliness and isolation.

"More than anything else, I really want to continue to help the residents in all the villages of Kinver division recover from the effects of Covid-19, so that as we slowly and safely return to ‘normal’, whatever that will look like, our local economy can recover and grow, and then we can prosper once more here in South Staffordshire.

"I look forward to working well with communities again, and I’d like thank everyone for their support, in what was an amazing result in the local election."