A new £9million contract will see services at RAF Brize Norton continue to be provided by company Serco.

The deal with the Ministry of Defence will run for a year from October 2015.

Serco has been providing services such as engineering, painting and providing fuel to RAF Brize Norton since 1997.

Brize Norton is the main operating base for the Royal Air Force’s entire air transport and air-to-air refuelling fleets and is the largest station in the Royal Air Force with about 5,800 service personnel, 1,200 contractors and 300 civilian staff members.