Politics

This year’s local elections are just around the corner, and we’re turning the spotlight on South Tyneside’s candidates in the run-up to polling day on May 2.

This year’s local elections are just around the corner, and we’re turning the spotlight on South Tyneside’s candidates in the run-up to polling day on May 2.

This year’s local elections are just around the corner, and we’re turning the spotlight on South Tyneside’s candidates in the run-up to polling day on May 2.

Any serious sickness or death is a sad thing, but when it is caused by someone’s profession it is even more tragic and unjust. What makes it worse is the Government’s unfair system of compensation.

Labour Party bosses have refused to be drawn on the progress of an investigation into a sexual harassment allegation against a South Tyneside MP.

Rogue landlords could be fined up to £30,000 for failing to improve living conditions for tenants under new powers backed by council bosses.

Council bosses have revealed a new plan aiming to boost housing support services for vulnerable tenants in South Tyneside.

Town hall chiefs in South Tyneside have agreed to write to the government demanding an end to austerity.

By the end of the year, around 4,200 teenagers will have become eligible to vote in South Tyneside since the Brexit vote, data reveals.

South Tyneside voters are set to take part in European Parliament elections on May 23 after the UK informed Brussels it would be taking part.

Rogue landlords who fail to improve living conditions for their tenants could face fines of up to £30,000 in a new council crackdown.

After a second extension to the Article 50 Brexit process, what happens next?

Imagine you’re very sick or disabled and unable to work so you’re entitled to financial support.

A haulage boss says he is being driven round the bend by motorists blocking in his vans by parking too close to the entrance to his firm’s headquarters.

EU leaders are set to extend Brexit by up to a year at an emergency summit in Brussels today - counter to Theresa May's request.

South Shields MP Emma-Lewell Buck has claimed the Government's "political choices" have led to one in eight people in work living in poverty.