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Drink driver Matthew Wootten crashes into the gates of the Prime Minister’s country house.

Watch: Drink driver smashes into gates of PM’s country house

In an article marking the launch of the News Media Association’s Journalism Matters campaign, the Prime Minister gave his strong backing to news media

Sir Keir Starmer says journalism is the 'lifeblood of our democracy'

Picture: Anna Gowthorpe/PA Wire

Starmer told North East can 'lead UK in offshore wind'

Kate Osborne in the Houses of Parliament.

Kate Osborne: Why this government is already 'delivering change'

Rachel Reeves listens to Keir Starmer on the Labour general election campaign trail in May (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Budget 2024: when it is and what could be in it - as PM warns of pain

A memorial for the nuclear test veterans at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire. Photo by PA

Nuclear test veterans being denied medical records is 'a scandal - Emma Lewell-B...

Jordan Parlour called for attack on asylum seeker hotel.

Watch: Police arrest man who called for attack on asylum seeker hotel

Councillors in South Tyneside have agreed to write to government chiefs to call for an independent review of water companies and a dedicated coastal minister to be put in place.

'Great concern' - Call for action over South Tyneside sea pollution

Emma Lewell-Buck, South Shields MP, has called for a public inquiry into why nuclear veterans have been prevented access to their medical records.

MP calls for a public inquiry into the ‘Nuked Blood Scandal’

Emma Lewell-Buck, MP, being congratulated at her General Election win for Labour in the South Shields constituency.

EMMA LEWELL-BUCK: Already a Labour Government has started to make positive chang...

abour leader and incoming Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and wife Victoria enter 10 Downing Street

Watch: Keir Starmer makes first speech as Prime Minister outside No 10

General Election 2024’s 7 best campaign moments and gaffes.

General Election 2024 7 best campaign moments and gaffes

Rishi Sunak: Four men arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass

On reflection, Monkey Tennis could be a vote winner.

Monkey Tennis just might sway undecided voters

Jarrow MP Kate Osborne has criticised the Government for allowing water companies to discharge waste into rivers and the sea.

KATE OSBORNE mp: This Government expects us to literally swallow its crap

South Tyneside MPs Emma Lewell-Buck (left) and Kate Osborne.

South Tyneside MPs react to Rishi Sunak calling a general election
South Tyneside’s MPs have reacted to the Prime Minister calling a general election.
Ryan Smith

Rishi Sunak has called a general election for July 4.

Watch: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces July 4 General Election

Jarrow Town Hall. Photo: Google Maps.

Jarrow set to benefit from £20m in with the Long-Term Plan for Towns

Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian infantry unit during a NATO military exercise earlier this year. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

EMMA LEWELL-BUCK MP: Britain will be better defended with a Labour Government

Emma Lewell-Buck, the MP for South Shields in the House of Commons. Mrs Lewell-Buck raised the issue of child poverty to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during PMQs. Photo: Parliamentlive.tv.

South Shields MP brings up child poverty issues in Parliament

The Government proposes to stop regular PIP payments and replace them with one-off grants and vouchers.

EMMA LEWELL-BUCK MP: This week began with a new level of cruelty from the Govern...

Labour will invest in boosting Britain’s border security, including a new cross border police unit. Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

EMMA LEWELL-BUCK MP: The Rwanda Scheme is a costly, ineffective distraction

Author Joanna Nadin

'I curtsied to the Prime Minister'

Rise & Fall of Boris Johnson review: Sticking the boot into former PM

Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson review: Sticking the boot into Boris Johnson

Jarrow MP Kate Osborne.

Jarrow MP calls for Rishi Sunak to apologise over transgender comment

Make these vapes stink of cheese and you may curb their use. Only saying.

RICHARD ORD: Get 'em sucking on Stilton to end this vape nightmare
As we didn’t have enough to worry about, Elon Musk is putting microchips in people’s brains.
Richard Ord

Tyne Bridge restoration work to get underway next week

Conservatives slam 'Labour hypocrisy' in Tyne Bridge restoration row

The ITV drama brought the scandal back into the public spotlight. Photo by courtesy of ITV

KATE OSBORNE MP: People need to be held to account for the lies and lives destro...

Former West Boldon postmaster Christopher Head hopes that this is now the "beginning of the end" of the Horizon Post Office scandal.

Ex-postmaster hopes for the 'beginning of the end' as new law promised

Emma Lewell-Buck, MP for South Shields.

South Shields MP named in a ballot to propose a new law

King Charles III reads the King's speech from The Sovereign's Throne in the House of Lords chamber, during the State Opening of Parliament, at the Houses of Parliament, in London, on November 7, 2023. Photo by Arthur EDWARDS / POOL / AFP.

EMMA LEWELL-BUCK: Sunak's King's Speech shows it's time for a Labour government

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions on his one year anniversary in office. Photo by James Manning/PA Wire

KATE OSBORNE MP: We need a General Election now before the Tories do even more d...

Heat pump grants have been hiked up by 50%. Photo: Adobe

Going Green: Lots to celebrate that will help the planet

TOPSHOT - Palestinian women with their children fleeing from their homes following Israeli air strikes rush along a street in Gaza City on October 11, 2023. At least 30 people have been killed and hundreds wounded as Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with hundreds of air strikes overnight, a Hamas government official said on October 11. Israel declared war on Hamas on October 8 following a shock land, air and sea assault by the Gaza-based Islamists. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

Emma Lewell-Buck's statement on the ongoing violence in Israel and Gaza

Combustion engine cars would be banned by 2030 but it has been pushed back to 2035. Photo: Adobe

Going Green: Government U-turns are going to cost us

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers his keynote speech at the Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester. Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Wire

EMMA LEWELL-BUCK MP: Every single day of these charlatans in power is a wasted o...

The Prime Minister has unveiled plans to scrap A-levels in a huge shake-up to the UK’s education system. Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images

A-levels and T Levels to be scrapped, Rishi Sunak announces

Rishi Sunak has refused to say whether he's axing the HS2 route from Birmingham to Manchester. Credit: Mark Hall/Getty

Northern leader hits out at PM’s ‘lies’ over rail projects and HS2

An aerial view of the groundworks construction of the HS2 high speed rail network progresses around the A38 dual-carriageway near Streethay on January 27, 2023 in Lichfield (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Gravy train: £280 million spent on HS2 consultants in years

Rishi Sunak is reportedly drawing up plans to slash inheritance tax as he looks to attract voters ahead of the next general election. Credit: Getty Images

Rishi Sunak considering inheritance tax cut

Chris Packham presented a new documentary this week, pondering whether the campaign influence governments on climate change needs to change (Picture: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4)

TV naturalist fights the law, and the law mainly wins

According to a leaked photograp, the government is said to be possibly planning on scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester HS2 phase in order to cut down on costs. (Credit: PA)

Rishi Sunak refuses to guarantee HS2 will link Manchester and London

Liz Truss

Liz Truss defends her record as prime minister in think tank speech

Remedial work being carried out at a school which has been affected with sub standard Raac. Photo by Jacob King / PA Wire

EMMA LEWELL-BUCK MP: Tory Britain Is crumbling through austerity, economic misma...

No Boris so now I’m a Celeb is targeting Liz and Dom

Owning a home has become impossible for many under the Tories, says Emma.

EMMA LEWELL-BUCK: Under the Tories, owning your own home has become an impossibl...

Revellers at a previous Pride march.

KATE OSBORNE: Government is stirring up hatred and pitching people against each ...

Benjamin Netanyahu has been taken to hospital after ‘feeling unwell'

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu hospitalised after ‘feeling unwell’

Boris Johnson earns over £21k an hour for his roles outside of politics

Boris Johnson rakes in over £21k as second job earnings revealed

The Resolution Foundation has estimated that around 6.5 million households in the UK will be affected by the post-mini budget rise in mortgage rates by 2026. Photo by Yui Mok/PA Wire

EMMA LEWELL-BUCK MP: In my constituency, 7,100 mortgage holders will be forced t...

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson

MPs find Boris Johnson ‘deliberately misled’ Commons multiple times

Former PM Boris Johnson has been referred to the police by the Cabinet Office over further potential rule breaches during the pandemic. PIC: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Boris Johnson denies new lockdown rule breaking allegations

A cigar smoked by Sir Winston Churchill in wartime nearly 80 years ago has been found in a jar.

Cigar smoked by Winston Churchill during World War 2 is up for sale

Lab tests have shown vapes confiscated from school students were mostly illegal, and had high levels of lead, nickel and chromium (Photo: NationalWorld/Adobe Stock)

Government announces crackdown on vape adverts targeting children

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