A long campaign took its first serious steps tonight; many of us went to Haltwhistle to the Western Area Committee meeting to be there when Edward Heslop and the various members of the Wark and Birtley parish councils, [and big helpers from Bellingham!] presented their petition to the chair of the Western Area Committee, Colin Horncastle.
This will be a long journey but 1200+ names on a petition and many hundreds on a facebook petition are a big step. All credit to all of the locals who did so much. We wait now for the survey and the Council's response to the petition. Spent the morning myself in Allendale, lunch in Hexham and evening in Haltwhistle canvassing either side of the western area committee meeting.