Leon's on call at climate summit

A GRIMSBY teenager is representing youngsters from the UK at the Copenhagen climate conference.

Leon Ward, 17, is training as a reporter at the landmark conference on climate change after being chosen by the children's charity Plan.

The Franklin College student said: "I am passionate about climate change. I want to do all I can to make sure the opinions of young people are heard at this conference.

"We are the generation which is going to inherit this problem and we should have a say in what happens. As a reporter out there I will be able to ask the questions that young people want to know the answers to."

The climate conference began yesterday and is scheduled to last 12 days, with US president Barack Obama due to attend in the final days.

More than 15,000 delegates and 45,000 green activists are due to descend on the Danish capital during the meeting, which has been described by British economist Lord Stern as "the most important since the Second World War".

They will be joined by at least 5,000 journalists and 100 world leaders.

Read more in today's Grimsby Telegraph.