Duo join Stafford FM to host new night time programme

Carol Lake re-joins Stafford FM 20 years after last saying goodbye

Former Stafford FM presenter, Carol Lake, is re-joining Stafford FM to host a new late night Sunday evening programme with local photographer and charity fundraiser, Paul Milgate-Scarrott.

The pair have been working together on local radio in the area for the last few years - and also spent time together presenting a show on former internet radio station, Stafford Radio, which broadcast from the iconic Broadeye Windmill. 

The duo will take up a brand new weekly show on Stafford FM called 'The Night Queens', which will air on Sunday evenings from September.

Carol returns to Stafford FM having previously been part of the original launch team in 2001 at Gaol Mews alongside Ray Crowther, Stu Haycock & Paul Dean. A former Stafford beauty queen, Carol is promising that the show will be 'something a little different' to the stations current weekend line up.

Carol commented:

"When I signed off from my radio programme in 2013, I had no idea it would be exactly twenty years before I would be back at Stafford FM. (That could be a world record!)

I went off exploring the world. I also got the Arctic in my blood. Polar regions, Svalbard, Alaska, Greenland, Canada, Russia. At home with towering glaciers and huge icebergs looking at polar bears. I lectured on cruise ships, became a published author, but I always kept my radio headphones to hand as I knew that one day, I’d be back. Now, it feels like I’ve come home to roost!"

Carol will be joined by Stafford based photographer, Paul Milgate-Scarrott, who has also just completed 50 years of fundraising in Stafford, having raised an estimated £1 million in this time for local charities, such as Katherine House Hospice.

Since her last stint on Stafford FM, Carol has also won the BBC TV Campaign for British Food and BBC TV's Seafish challenge. In fact, she's a self confessed foodie.

She continued:

"I want to showcase the very best food, drink, hospitality and  cuisine that Stafford is justifiably proud of.

I’m also a Burgess of Stafford chartered by King John in 1206ad, and I’m involved in a massive History Project for our towns archives. Our history and heritage is something that needs to be sung from the chimney tops."

Her talents don't stop there! She was also Miss Royal British Legion, Stafford 1980. 

She concluded:

"I now have a fine collection of wrinkles caused by laughter over the years. No longer the ‘Shy Goose’ of Gaol Road, I’m back with a bang at Stafford FM! 

It will be two hours of the very best music and fun!"

Stafford FM's Programme Director, Stu Haycock, said:

"Stafford FM is fully focused on engaging the area through our radio service - our online platforms and through the links and connections we have built in Mid Staffordshire.

 We have big plans in the coming months - and it is important that we are able to improve our offering with the introduction of even more locally focused radio.

Carol and Paul live and breathe our area - and the Night Queens is the perfect fit to round off the weekend with some light hearted entertainment.

It's also lovely to see Carol come back home again to the areas only local radio station!"

'The Night Queens' is promising giggles, gossip, a bit of cheekiness and naughtiness, fuelled by some fabulous music.

Carol & Paul start their new show on Sunday 10th September at 10pm on Stafford FM.