West Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin has urged local school children to start planting trees to help battle climate change.

Harriett met with the pupil parliament at Northleigh Primary School who shared their ideas about how they are planning to act to improve their natural environment and help to combat climate change.

Suggestions ranged from planting seeds in verges to improve habitats for insects to encouraging more use of electric and hybrid cars.

And the pupils pledged to plant more trees as part of their own efforts to improve the environment ahead of the major UN climate change conference which will be held in Glasgow in next month.

Harriett is hoping to attend the conference and plans to share local views with the COP 26 President Alok Sharma.

Harriett said:

“Over the last six months I have been visiting schools and businesses and talking to local people about what they think our priorities should be as world leaders gather to discuss this vital issue.

“It is clear to me that the pupils at Northleigh Primary School feel very strongly about climate change and they have developed their own plan to improve environment.  I applaud their efforts to come together to debate this issue as a school.

“They are a good example to us all and I hope that COP 26 will be as productive coming up with global solutions to these problems.”

Photo: Northleigh Primary School (l-r) Harriett Baldwin MP, Emiline Illston, Frankie Moore and head teacher Sarah Green