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Pupils at a Blackburn school have been planting trees thanks to a partnership with the River Ribble Trust.

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 ch...

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 ch...