When Morpeth was hit by floods in 2008, it was said to be a once-in-a-century event. Unfortunately the town flooded again just four years later.
As well as leading to better flood defences in the town and new ways of insuring properties in flood-prone areas, those events are said to have helped change the opinion of Northumberland MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who just a few years earlier had been tweeting her scepticism of climate change.
It has been quite a transformation and last week Ms Trevelyan - in her role as International Trade Secretary - could be found telling business leaders about the need to “decisively turn our backs on the era of dependence on polluting fuels”. As well as helping to “de-Putinise the world’s economy”, the Berwick MP said, shifting from fossil fuels to renewables could help British firms export their expertise and become major players on the world economy.
