From town centre improvements to youth facilities locals share their views.
What is on voters' minds in Wellingborough as they prepare to go to the polls on 15 February to choose their new MP? And do the candidates have the answers? Residents have been giving us their questions.Amber Lovell, who is 27 and lives in Rushden, believes Wellingborough town centre needs a facelift."We need to bring it back, encourage independent businesses back to the high street and revitalise the town centre.
"There are too many children and young people hanging around the town centre and getting into trouble," he says. "They have nothing to do and nowhere to go. That's bad for them and it's bad for their parents who will have to go to court or the police station when they get into trouble."I believe we need to use existing facilities like schools, village halls, church halls and sporting facilities to their full extent.
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