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A Labour councillor representing Tynemouth has been suspended by the party after allegedly sharing an image in which he appeared to be holding a firearm. Councillor Tom Bailey is now reportedly the...
A change of Prime Minister does not trigger a general election. Here are the rules that determine when the next one must happen.
Five parties are polling above ten per cent at the same time, a situation with no real precedent in modern British politics.
More than 120 UK millionaires have called on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to introduce a new wealth t...
When Sunderland councillor Glenn Gibbins appears before South Tyneside Magistrates' Court on August ...
Reform UK has led national polling for much of the past eighteen months. The survey data shows where that support has come from.
Registering to vote in Newcastle takes only a few minutes online, yet a surprising number of eligible residents, particularly students and recent movers, are not currently on the electoral register at all.
Andy Burnham became Prime Minister on 20 July and named his cabinet within days. Here is who holds which brief.
The new government's flagship policy is shifting power out of Westminster, starting with a prime ministerial office in Manchester.
The new administration announced a series of measures in its opening week, several affecting household bills and transport costs.
For six extraordinary years, Britain's first ever Labour Prime Minister sat in Downing Street while representing the County Durham mining seat of Seaham.
The Poulson Affair became Britain's biggest local government corruption scandal of the twentieth century, implicating council leaders, MPs and civil servants across the North East and beyond.
Peter Lee began working underground at the age of ten and could not read until he was twenty, yet he went on to lead the first Labour-run county council in British history.
Every Newcastle household pays council tax, yet surprisingly few residents understand exactly how their band is set or where the money actually goes once it leaves their bank account.
As Parliament rejected the Chartists' demand for democratic reform, Newcastle became one of the few places in Britain where working men genuinely began arming themselves for open rebellion.
Newcastle's striking modernist Civic Centre took over a decade to build, replaced a Victorian town hall, and was formally opened by a Norwegian king. Its story is closely tied to one of the city's most ambitious eras of redevelopment.
When grain prices soared and food was shipped out of Newcastle while locals went hungry, the city's crowd turned on its own council chamber in one of the most violent political riots in North East history.
Whether raising a pothole, a planning concern or a national policy issue, knowing how to properly contact your local councillor or MP can make a genuine difference in getting an issue addressed.
From emptying bins to running schools, Newcastle City Council delivers a genuinely enormous range of everyday services that many residents rarely stop to think about until something goes wrong.
