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Earlier this week, the family of Maya, who died in 2022 after being violently shaken by her mother’s new partner, revealed that they had received a confirmed debate on their Maya’s Law campaign, which The Northern Echo is backing. Maya Chappell (Image: FAMILY) In September last year, Maya’s great aunts, Gemma Chappell and Rachael Walls,…
People living in the Murton ward will go to the polls on Thursday (March 5) to vote in a new county councillor. Reform won the two available seats within the East Durham ward during last May’s local elections as it took overall control of Durham County Council. The election has been called to fill a…
During Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (February 25), Mrs Badenoch told Sir Keir Starmer he should “ask why his backbenchers are saying that they’re being called the ‘paedo defenders party,’ and followed that up by saying she would “absolutely not apologise” later in the day. Her jibe followed reporting by The Times that female Labour…
The issue was raised by North Durham MP, Luke Akehurst, at today’s (Wednesday, February 25) Prime Minister’s Questions, which saw the MP note that areas like New Kyo, Grange Villa and The Avenues area of Chester-le-Street are all in need of “urgent investment”. This question from Mr Akehurst comes after £20m was given to Stanley,…
This is in spite of the it being “confident”, as recently as December, that it would meet the statutory backstop deadline of February 27, 2026, for publishing the latest set of audited accounts, relating to 2024/25. Last year, the backstop deadline of February 28, 2025, was missed for the 2023/24 accounts. A matter of weeks…
This evening (February 23), a Met spokesperson said: “Officers have arrested a 72-year-old man on suspicion of misconduct in public office. “He was arrested at an address in Camden on Monday, 23 February and has been taken to a London police station for interview. “This follows search warrants at two addresses in the Wiltshire and…
“The Socialist supporters went frantic at their victory, and for the next hour or two they made noise enough for 40 victories,” said the Conservative-supporting Darlington & Stockton Times. Arthur Shepherd, Darlington’s first Labour MP The new MP was Arthur Shepherd, the headmaster of the Quaker primary school at Reeth who motored into Darlington every…
Princess Anne was to attend the 20th anniversary of the occupational therapy team in health and social care at the Middlesbrough hospital, but the visit was called off yesterday morning (Thursday, February 19), while news of her brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest hit the headlines. A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: “The Princess Royal was unable at…
Princess Anne was to attend the 20th anniversary of the occupational therapy team in health and social care at the Middlesbrough hospital, but the visit was called off yesterday morning (Thursday, February 19), while news of her brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest hit the headlines. A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: “The Princess Royal was unable at…
The feature, which is one of the town’s “most enjoyed landmarks”, has stood at the top of West Cliff for more than 170 years, but despite being replaced in 2002 the structure is deteriorating. A plan to find genuine replacement bones has been abandoned, however, after “all realistic avenues for sourcing replacement natural whalebones have…
