From BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/3449601.stm
Last one out, turn off the lights please.........
No guarantees for RAF station
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said he cannot guarantee that a Staffordshire RAF station will stay open, despite praising its good work.
A 5,000-signature petition to save the RAF station from closure was sent to the government last month.
The Ministry of Defence is considering the future of its 15 UK RAF bases, including RAF Stafford which employs 600 people.
In a letter to Stafford MP David Kidney Mr Hoon said he was proud of the good work achieved at the site but could not guarantee that it would stay open.
He said the final decision rested with the MoD, due to publish a report on the matter within the next few months.
Several options are being discussed by the MoD including closing the site down, leaving it as it is or merging it with RAF Wittering, in Cambridgeshire.
Mr Kidney is due to meet defence minister Adam Ingram later this week to discuss the base's future.