2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (280+ words) A train decked out in the new GBR livery. Credit: UK Government Teesside MPs have welcomed a £1bn government investment that will fund the construction of 29 new trains, which will travel between Redcar, Middlesbrough and the north west. The new rolling…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (286+ words) ID 200978 | Cut Credit Card © Dana Rothstein | Dreamstime.com I wouldn’t ordinarily rely on AI to provide the content for an article about poverty, but I recently decided to set it a task. I asked a popular commercial AI tool to…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (574+ words) North East Mayor Kim McGuinness, the region’s local authorities and its medium-sized businesses will all have roles in delivering the government’s economic growth agenda, backed by funds from the British Business Bank and the National Wealth Fund. Chancellor John Healey,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (681+ words) Newspaper offices used to be in prominent city centre locations, Used with permission A newspaper seller shouts out the headline, preceded by a cry of “Evenin’ ‘Co!” which sounds more like a strangled seagull than English. People queue up to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (460+ words) Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner Matt Storey. Picture/credit: Office of the Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner A police and crime commissioner (PCC) has slammed a £2mn sum handed to Cleveland Police from the government. Labour’s Matt Storey said it was…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (597+ words) Plans to rebuild Hadrian House in Newcastle city centre as a 21-storey student accommodation block, Corstorphine & Wright Architects via Newcastle City Council A £60 million student housing tower that would be among Newcastle’s tallest buildings has been approved. Councillors have signed…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (703+ words) Daniel Astley, Reform UK councillor for Benwell, Scotswood and Denton Burn, speaking at a Newcastle City Council meeting on 2 September 2026. A Reform UK councillor in Newcastle has been criticised for appearing to endorse a “vile” conspiracy theory. Benwell, Scotswood and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (674+ words) North East Bylines The future of local government Will new ways be found to avoid tensions between central and local government? In the interests of people in ‘every postcode’? Newcastle Civic Centre council chamber, CC 2.0 A long time ago (between…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (756+ words) ID 11958426 © Georgiana Branea | Dreamstime.com Where to start? There is clearly so much wrong with the media environment in Britain today, that it is hard to know where to begin. However, I will have a go. For starters there is…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1099+ words) Andy Burnham 1.9.26, Flickr CC 4.0 Prime Minister Andy Burnham, as almost his first act on returning to the House of Commons, paid tribute to the two Cleveland police offers killed in the horrific two-car crash on the A66 near Middlesbrough in the…...