Calls for the Government to “immediately reverse” changes to winter fuel payments to help support pensioners have been voted down at a meeting of South Tyneside Council.
The justice minister can be seen using the light of a small lamp to continue his speech after the main lights went out in the Lords chamber - watch below.
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