David Ruffley MP will be celebrating England's original patron saint, St Edmund, this weekend. David will be joining BBC Radio Suffolk's Mark Murphy who is broadcasting a special programme from St Edmundsbury Cathedral between 9am and noon on Saturday 20 November.

On the morning of Sunday 21 November David will be attending the Annual St Edmunds Day Service with the Mayor of St Edmundsbury, Councillor Ian Houlder, at St Edmund's Catholic Church, Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds.

David said 'No one will persuade me that we are not the most gloriously historic county town in England. Everybody should know that Magna Carta isn't really about Runnymeade in Surry in 1215, but about Bury St Edmunds where it originated in 1214. And our illustrious history pre-dates even King John- St Edmund fought and was buried in Bury St Edmunds in early medieval times and he is the original English saint. It is fantastic that we are still able, many hundreds of years on, to celebrate events in our great historic town. It makes us all proud to be East Anglian and proud to be English.