We have been trying for more than a month to get the editor of The Looker and The Hurricane to publish the following correction. He won’t, so we will publish it here:
In our edition of 5th March, we wrongly claimed that Cllr Stephen Scoffham, Cabinet member for Climate, Environment and Biodiversity, had suggested that Romney Marsh should be allowed to flood so that it could be ‘rewilded’. We accept that neither Cllr Scoffham nor any of his Green Party colleagues on Folkestone & Hythe District Council have ever made any such suggestion. We apologise for suggesting otherwise.
We’ve long chosen to ignore The Looker’s inaccuracies, misrepresentations and personal attacks but on this occasion attempted to set the record straight. The editor admitted that this claim was based only on something a Conservative councillor (who has since stood down) told him but still refused our request.
Based on nothing more than hearsay, this was an attention-grabbing claim designed to scare people on the Marsh and damage the Green Party (a particular preoccupation for The Looker, whose editor is a town and district councillor and standing for election to the county council on 1st May).
