Sonia Hornery hits back at claims about her letter-writing friend

City of Newcastle CEO Jeremy Bath and Wallsend MP Sonia Hornery. File pictures

Wallsend MP Sonia Hornery has hit back at comments from the City of Newcastle CEO about her friend's letters to the editor, saying Jeremy Bath "is scraping the bottom of the barrel".

Ms Hornery was responding to an opinion piece Mr Bath wrote in the Newcastle Herald where he said she benefitted from letters to the editor, namely those written by her friend Jayne Sharpe.