SPECIAL cherry trees will be planted in a borough’s parks to remember residents who died from the coronavirus pandemic. Burnley Council’s executive authorised spending £3,000 on the commemorative saplings which will flower each spring to mark the start of the first Covid-19 lockdown. It is part of a wider £18,000 tree planting to combat climate change agreed by the senior councillors. The cherry trees will be placed in Ightenhill Park, Padiham Memorial Park, Queens Park, Scott Park, Thompson Park and Towneley Park. The plan was devised by the council’s cross-party climate change working group. Working group chair and Green Party councillor Andy Fewings said: “We thought it would be a really nice thing to have some commemorative trees that could be planted in parks and give people who may not have been able to give the send-off to loved ones that they wanted to somewhere to go and remember and pay their respects and grieve in a way they might not have felt a
SPECIAL cherry trees will be planted in a borough’s parks to remember residents who died from the coronavirus pandemic. Burnley Council’s executive authorised spending £3,000 on the commemorative saplings which will flower each spring to mark the start of the first Covid-19 lockdown. It is part of a wider £18,000 tree planting to combat climate change agreed by the senior councillors. The cherry trees will be placed in Ightenhill Park, Padiham Memorial Park, Queens Park, Scott Park, Thompson Park and Towneley Park. The plan was devised by the council’s cross-party climate change working group. Working group chair and Green Party councillor Andy Fewings said: “We thought it would be a really nice thing to have some commemorative trees that could be planted in parks and give people who may not have been able to give the send-off to loved ones that they wanted to somewhere to go and remember and pay their respects and grieve in a way they might not have felt a