A year in office: The key decisions and controversies from a year of Northumberland's Tory council

What difference can a year make?

Peter Jackson, leader of Northumberland County Council, claims it can be significant.

It’s a year to the day since Coun Jackson’s brand new Conservative cabinet met for the first time, after missing out an overall majority by - quite literally - a straw.

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Their first 12 months in office certainly could not be described as “uneventful”, and they haven’t shied away from controversy.

Here’s some of what’s happened: