This time it was BBC Look North who contacted me and wanted to interview me but by the time I got the message it seemed they had packed up and gone home. But they did a feature with the Council and Network Rail but it never made it onto the evening regional news. Though someone told me they saw it at 06.30 in the morning and it said the Council were extending the Metro to Morpeth and Ashington. That is surely a mistake. The plan is for a heavy rail connection to Ashington, and Morpeth of course is already served by rail. There are numerous reasons why Metro won’t work. But my friend was adamant that is what the broadcast said. Sadly I have no way of checking. Did my friend mis-hear or were the BBC mis-briefed or jump to a false conclusion?
