SELRAP Newsletter Interactive 4pm 20th feb 2026 - Flipbook - Page 5
MEDIA ROUND UP
Last year was another excep琀椀onally
busy 12 months for SELRAP on the
media front. Our media o昀케cer, Jane
Wood, con琀椀nues to liaise closely with
journalists, genera琀椀ng more posi琀椀ve
coverage than ever before.
In January, the Skipton-Colne Line was
centre stage in an interview with the
chancellor on BBC1’s Sunday With Laura
Kuenssberg (see right).
A piece on the Yorkshire Bylines website
by Colin Speakman (December 2024),
forcefully arguing the case for the
project, a琀琀racted over 12,500 hits.
Wri琀椀ng in the Burnley Express in May
2025 Jonathan Hinder MP commented:
“This project would be transforma琀椀onal
for our area, and I won’t let it slip o昀昀 the
agenda.” (See below).
The Craven Herald, Keighley News,
Leader Times Series and Lancashire
Evening Telegraph all reported our
September 2025 members’ mee琀椀ng,
The chancellor’s BBC interview (January 2025)
along with the BBC News (England) and
Lancashire Live websites.
We had excellent local take-up of a press
release we issued ahead of Burnley
playing Leeds United (18 October 2025),
highligh琀椀ng how the Skipton-Colne
Line’s” restora琀椀on would be a boost for
football fans.
The autumn 2025 edi琀椀on of Friends On
Track (the Friends of Se琀琀le-Carlisle Line
members’ newsle琀琀er) also featured an
ar琀椀cle penned by our newest execu琀椀ve
commi琀琀ee member, Nick Tennant.
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