Climate Emergency? Not in Newbiggin or Ashington!

 Wednesday televised Council meeting from the money maelstrom of County Hall in Morpeth was enormously entertaining until the Independent Councillor for Berwick East and Chairperson of the Audit Committee showed the world that she couldn’t follow a simple instruction from the Chair of the meeting, the Councils Solicitor and its Chief Executive.


Prior to that disgrace we Laymen laughed at Councillor Anne Dale’s very measured put down of Councillor Sandersons puffed chest statements about the Councils Handling of its declared Climate Emergency and his program of  planting trees valued at £419 each. She reported that her family were buying 4 foot saplings complete with a stake for 80p each.

He was then lambasted by Councillors Grimshaw and Simpson who pointed out that their areas, Ashington and Newbiggin by the Sea have been ignored in his program.

We contacted Councillor Simpson after the meeting and she told us “I’m concerned that Newbiggin will be one of the first places damaged by any rise in sea levels yet the Council have cut us out of their Climate Emergency plans, it just shows that its politics first and people second in the eyes of Northumberland Conservatives.”