Speaking in March, ahead of the town and county elections, newly re-elected councillors Derek Kennedy and Suzanne Holly Fairless-Aitken told the Hexham Courant about the reasons they're running and ...

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She said: "Hexham has a poor recent history of ignoring, or selling into private hands, several of our heritage assets. Think the workhouse - empty for 12 years; the old bus station lies derelict.