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Councillors on Stockton Council’s general licensing committee found the unnamed motorist was remorseful for the crime of concealing, disguising, converting or transferring criminal property almost seven years ago. He told them he had made mistakes but was focused on working hard and providing for his family and “really needed an opportunity to make a better…
Councillor Fiona Miller, who was first elected to serve the Washington East ward on Sunderland City Council in 2011, announced her resignation as a Labour councillor at a full council meeting on Wednesday, March 25. The long-serving Washington councillor, and former deputy cabinet member on the local authority, said she was now a “Green Party…
Councillor Fiona Miller, who was first elected to serve the Washington East ward on Sunderland City Council in 2011, announced her resignation as a Labour councillor at a full council meeting on Wednesday, March 25. The long-serving Washington councillor, and former deputy cabinet member on the local authority, said she was now a “Green Party…
In 2020, Tees Valley Conservative Mayor Ben Houchen announced that the station revamp was “fully funded”, with a total of £35m confirmed for redevelopment works. The total now projected for a new platform three and the associated infrastructure works is listed at £90m, up from £60m just months earlier. Along with the original £35m for…
Easington MP Grahame Morris said prison officers who bear the brunt of violence in jails across the country “must be protected”, in a Westminster Hall debate on Thursday (March 26). Led by New Forest East MP Sir Julian Lewis, the 3pm debate came just over a year after former monster mansion officer Claire Lewis from…
Councillor Pamela Hargreaves, who holds the chief political position on Hartlepool Borough Council, stressed it is important they “inspire participation” and “give young people a reason to be involved in politics”. At the latest authority-wide meeting of Hartlepool Borough Council a public question to the local authority leader queried what is being done to increase…
On Monday (March 23), Mary Kelly Foy, MP for the City of Durham, raised several questions to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, during a Home Office questions session in Parliament. The questions related to Maya’s Law, a campaign launched in memory of Maya Chappell. The two-year-old died in Newcastle’s RVI in September 2022, days after…
Opposition councillors have criticised Durham County Council for deciding not to hold the meeting at 10am on Wednesday (March 25), where residents and members can openly question the authority. But Reform said it “won’t have meetings for the sake of it” and that council officers received no requests for questions from the public or opposition…
Conservative Mayor Ben Houchen gave his view to Tees Valley residents during ‘Mayor’s Question Time’, held in Darlington on Wednesday, March 18, to which approximately 20 members of the public attended. He said that he had told the team at TVCA a long time ago that there were “lots” of things that the organisation needed…
A different interpretation would say he has calculated from the start that the US doesn’t need the Strait open. In other words, America and Israel can poke the hornets’ nest with a stick and it’s then up to others to swat the angry hornets that emerge. Thus, we are all to be co-opted into a…
