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Durham County Council declared the warning in 2019, setting out a target to achieve net zero emissions by 2045. However, the latest move by the Reform administration suggests the party is prioritising other services. Deputy Leader Darren Grimes has requested that the local authority instead declare a “County Durham Care Emergency” to recognise the “critical…
Blaydon-based group NE Youth say that Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) sessions in school should include lessons on serious youth violence like knife crime and drugs and have compiled two separate reports on the issue, which they took to Parliament to present to MPs. Ellie Johnson, 18, from Horden, was one of the young…
Two members of the North Yorkshire Independents (NY Independents) group of councillors have left to form a new group with members of the Green Party. It comes after new Reform councillor Tom Seston was listed as a member of the NY Independents group along with Reform colleague Mike Jordan on the council’s website. Cllr Seston…
Betty Brown, 92,ran the Annfield Plain Post Office near Stanley with her late husband Oswall, in the 1990s and early 2000s. She claims his death was impacted by the ordeal of missing hundreds of pounds each week in their accounts. Ms Brown told the PA news agency: “We had a nice office, nice atmosphere, nice…
Patients on Teesside have been invited for tests in a lung health check programme to pick up warning signs. This has reversed trends for people receiving “curative” treatment to overcome cancer rather than palliative treatment to improve quality of life and manage symptoms. Samuel Peate, chief operating officer for the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation…
Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor repeated calls on Tuesday for the threat to be taken seriously “at the highest levels of Government” as he released his annual report. The watchdog chief detailed how a “menu of drugs” is available in prisons where work to rehabilitate criminals is being prevented, with many inmates in their cells for…
Chris Head was falsely accused of stealing more than £80,000 from his branch in West Boldon, near Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, in 2006 before the criminal case against him was dropped. Speaking to the PA news agency ahead of the report being published, Mr Head said: “It’s a monumental day. “I do believe it will…
Patients on Teesside have been invited for tests in a lung health check programme to pick up warning signs. This has reversed trends for people receiving “curative” treatment to overcome cancer rather than palliative treatment to improve quality of life and manage symptoms. Samuel Peate, chief operating officer for the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation…
The event, hosted by the Durham Miners’ Association (DMA), will take place on Saturday (July 12). The full line-up of platform speakers for the 2025 event has now been confirmed, after the DMA said it would welcome Dr Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the UK to speak at the event. These include Jeremy Corbyn, former…
It has been a wild 12 months, both nationally and internationally. However, my most important takeaway from the last year is probably this: I came into this job believing most people are good and want to do right by their families and their communities. Over the last year you’ve proven me right time and time…
