Personal Statement

Brian is the Councillor responsible for Highways and Policing. He is also a member of the Crick Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group.

After 29 years' as a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force (three in the RAF Regiment and the 26 in the RAF Police) which included overseas postings in Aden, Germany, Cyprus and Hong Kong, he retired from the Ministry of Defence as a Group Captain and joined Standard Chartered Bank in the City in 1994. He retired from the Bank where he was the Head of Protective Security in 2002.

He has worked part-time on airshows since 1976 and in 2012 retired from the Royal International Air Tattoo (the world's largest military airshow held annually at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire) where he was Chief of Staff for more than 10 years. He continued to work part-time as the Head of the Operational Services Division for the Australian International Airshow (Australia's Farnborough International) which is held every two years at Avalon Airport near Melbourne until 2013.

Following retirement from the Bank in 2002 Brian and his wife, Judy, split their time between Crick, Northamptonshire and Robina on the Gold Coast in Queensland. However, since 2006 they have been living permanently in the Crick. They have a daughter, a son and 2 grandchildren.