Category: Politics

A third of the 36 seats on Hartlepool Borough Council will be up for election on Thursday, May 7, with one councillor being voted in for each of the area’s 12 wards. Several key figures from the current ruling Labour administration will be defending their positions including council leader Councillor Pamela Hargreaves and committee chairs…

A third of the 36 seats on Hartlepool Borough Council will be up for election on Thursday, May 7, with one councillor being voted in for each of the area’s 12 wards. Several key figures from the current ruling Labour administration will be defending their positions including council leader Councillor Pamela Hargreaves and committee chairs…

The Work and Pensions Secretary, Pat McFadden, implicitly said there was something amiss when he repeatedly failed to tell radio interviewers that civil servant Sir Olly Robbins had been fairly dismissed by the prime minister, and there are reports that Tuesday’s cabinet meeting was an extremely glum affair. At Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour MPs were…

The divisive Clacton MP received a decidedly mixed reception as he wandered down King Street in South Shields on a sunny Tuesday morning, with some locals shouting that he was “not welcome” in their town while others were keen to speak to him. His party is aiming to make major gains in the region and…

Mr Farage told ITV last month that a Black Cats director, reportedly Juan Sartori, had extended the invitation. More than 4,000 people have since signed a petition urging the club to withdraw any such invite and ‘Keep Farage out of Sunderland AFC’, following a controversial appearance he made at Ipswich Town’s Portman Road. The petition…

A Stockton Council report says 175 children and young people started in the authority’s care in 2025, compared to 67 in 2024 and 54 in 2023. The number of children in care overall rose at a slower rate of nine per cent, reaching 615 children by the end of March. Children had “increasingly complex needs…

The Ensus plant, in Lazenby, Redcar, was wound down last year after a trade deal with the US cut tariffs on bioethanal, its main product.  But yesterday Business Secretary Peter Kyle signed off an up to £100 million Government grant to reopen the site, mainly due to the carbon dioxide it produces as a by-product. …

The Reform leader has held a series of election rallies across the country in recent weeks, but will formally begin his party’s campaign for the May 7 polls at an event in the North East this evening (Thursday, March 26) where he will promise to deliver “a breath of fresh air in English councils up…

The former chief adviser to Boris Johnson appeared in a Facebook post from local cafe Gelato Tutti on 17 April, posing outside the shop with staff. In the post, the business quipped: “Dominic Cummings may need his annual eye test, but there’s nothing wrong with his taste buds.” The shop branded him “A man that…

We have to believe him when he says no one told him that his choice to become US ambassador, Peter Mandelson, had failed the “developed vetting” process in January 2025. We have to believe him because his admission makes him look like a prime minister who is not in charge of his own government, of…