Category: Politics

Members of North Yorkshire Council’s executive committee have agreed to dispose of the civic centre at Stone Cross in Northallerton, the former headquarters of Hambleton District Council. The building is set to be sold for an undisclosed fee described as “significant” by council chiefs. The council decided the offices were not needed following the launch…

Sir Keir Starmer confirmed ‘Young Futures Hubs’ will be rolled out this year, in the government’s latest push to half knife crime that continues to rip families apart. At a summit at St James’ Palace in London today (July 15), the PM confirmed eight hubs will be opened this year in areas with high levels of knife crime. Their locations…

Councillors are voting on a Reform UK request to rescind Durham County Council’s climate emergency pledge.

Councillor Richard Eglington will tell council leaders the authority had offered tenants who run businesses in the 19th century shopping centre and market hall “the first of many opportunities” to get clarity and advice from officers. This comes after businesspeople received a letter from the council from Stockton Council, telling them of proposals to “market…

The dusty brown countryside bears witness to what the statistics tell us: Yorkshire had its driest spring in 132 years and so a water shortage is inevitable. Perhaps, in another era, there would have been some sympathy with those who are at the mercy of the great British weather when they are tasked with ensuring…

Durham County Council detailed how it hopes to achieve its vision of making the authority more efficient, supercharging the economy, building better communities, caring for residents, and taking a practical approach to environmental targets.  The new administration will also undertake a review of council spending as part of an ambition to ensure residents receive value…

Paddy Morton, manager of the 170-year-old Strickland & Holt family business on Yarm High Street and chair of Yarm Business Forum, presented a petition on behalf of Stockton West MP Matt Vickers to Stockton Council in May. He said the loss of one hour’s free parking – replaced with a £1.50 charge for three hours…

The decision comes just days after French president Emmanuel Macron was given the honour of addressing Parliament. Kate Osborne, the Labour MP for Jarrow and Gateshead East, has written twice to the Speaker of the House of Commons asking parliamentary authorities to block any address from Mr Trump inside Parliament. She told The Northern Echo: “There’s…

Voters in Easington and Shotton will elect a new county councillor to represent the ward on August 7 following the resignation of a Reform UK member.  The Durham County Council poll was called after former councillor John Bailey stood down due to ill health.  Reform won all three of the available seats within the East…

The critique came at the full meeting of the council on Wednesday, July 9, ahead of the the closure of Next, which shut its doors for the final time on Saturday, July 12. Middlesbrough Independent Councillors Association (MICA) group leader Councillor Mick Saunders highlighted the wider decline of the section of Linthorpe Road near the…