Tributes are paid to ex-mayor

TRIBUTES have been paid to much-loved and long-serving Trafford Councillor Jane Baugh.

Coun Baugh represented Broadheath Ward for 14 years before moving to Priory Ward in 2004, serving the council “with great distinction” for 30 years.

The council has paid its respects to the “popular and talented politician” who stood twice as an MP in Altrincham and Sale West, losing by just 1,500 votes in 1997.

Coun Baugh was extremely passionate about the arts and children and young people and served on the council’s executive from 2018-2019 working in the Children’s Services and Culture and Leisure portfolios.

She had been an executive member in the early 2000’s and she was instrumental in setting up Sale Waterside in 2004.

Active in her community, Coun Baugh served as vice chair of Sale Festival and was a member of the Friends of Worthington Park and the Friends of Walkden Gardens.

She was the President of Parkinson’s Trafford Branch and of Sale Brass Band and served as a governor at several Trafford schools including Park Road Primary School in Timperley and Moorlands Junior School in Sale.

She was Trafford Mayor from 2011 to 2012 and raised more than £26,000 for a number of charities including The Stroke Association, Parkinson’s UK, Altrincham General Hospital’s League of Friends, Trafford Stroke Support Group, the Alex Hulme Foundation and Trafford Carers’ Centre.

Coun Baugh leaves behind husband Peter and her three sons Jonathan, David and James.