Launch of new project to brighten up neglected Hartlepool spaces

Say It With Flowers aims to improve forgotten areas starting with the Brus Tunnel.

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00:00I'm at the Brush Tunnel in Westview and I'm with Dylan Eastwood. Dylan there's a lot going on

00:09behind you, what's happening today? Yeah so today is the launch of our

00:13Say It With Flowers campaign which was created by the Hartlepool Poverty Truth Commission

00:18which is basically a group of people made up of passionate members of our community

00:23who are looking to make some positive changes in Hartlepool alongside what we call civic and

00:30business leaders so that's headteachers, members of the council, ward councillors, things like that

00:36to sort of facilitate conversations where we can get together around a table and make some

00:41positive changes and one of them is a space that was identified as a place that we wanted to see

00:47some changes happening is the Brush Tunnel in Hartlepool. It's a connection to the beach

00:53for Westview and we've had a lot of comments that it's run down, there's a lot of flag tipping,

01:00things like that so today we're just trying to make conversations with the community to say

01:05you know if you can make any changes to the tunnel what would you like to see change and

01:10we're going to put the work in and we're going to try and make it a positive, bright, welcoming space.