Locomotion No.1 leaving Head of Steam, Darlington Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT. A COUNCIL leader has warned the bi-centenary celebrations of the world’s first passenger railway could be derailed if politicians continue to criticise the manner of departure of Locomotion No 1 from the town it had been kept in for 163 years. Darlington Borough Council leader Councillor Heather Scott used the start of a meeting of the authority’s cabinet to emphasise her determination that the borough “has to make the best of it” after its star attraction was taken to the National Railway Museum’s Locomotion in Shildon. The Conservative-run council leader said there had been a cross-party consensus over the deal the council had struck last Friday, which will mean the historic engine returns to Darlington for part of 2025 and 35 per cent of the following decade.
Rishi Sunak helps Croft Estates worker Neil Walledge fell a Christmas tree A LOCAL authority which has committed to increase the three per cent of land in a borough covered by trees has rejected a call to replant residents’ Christmas trees. Darlington Borough Council has been urged to start collecting residents’ Christmas trees with roots in the new year and add them to its ambition to plant 20,000 trees in the coming years. The call follows Environment Minister Rebecca Pow earlier this year highlighting the importance of disposing of Christmas trees sustainably and suggesting replanting Christmas trees was the greenest option.
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