These are tense times for everyone involved with Key Subject Tuition. Last week, founder and director Claire Wardle submitted an application that could transform the South Tyneside education provider’s ability to arm a generation of young people and adult learners with vital skills and improved prospects. Should Key Subject Tuition be successful in its bid …
A fresh commitment to securing a new nuclear future for the North East can create hundreds of jobs and fuel further positive change for the region. That’s the verdict of Hartlepool MP Jill Mortimer after the Government’s Future Nuclear Enabling Fund (FNEF) awarded £3.34m to the company proposing to build a nuclear reactor plant in …
Having observed the rise and fall of several governments over the course of my career, it seems to me that there always comes a point in the lifetime of an administration where all events conspire to the one end of inevitable electoral defeat. I witnessed it with the long, slow demise of John Major’s Government …
The date was May 4 1964. The Leamside Line, stretching 21 miles from Pelaw in Gateshead to Ferryhill in County Durham, officially closed to passenger trains. Another victim of the Beeching Cuts. Almost three decades later, in the early 1990s, the line was also closed to freight trains. The man who oversaw the concluding years …
The UK parliament has heard findings that levelling up — arguably the Conservatives’ flagship policy agenda — is beset by critical delays. In a report published on March 15, the public accounts committee, parliament’s expenditure watchdog, has said that, as of September 2023, local authorities had spent only £1.24 billion of the £10.47 billion the …
Almost 10 years ago the then Chancellor coined the term ‘Northern Powerhouse’. When Boris Johnson became Prime Minister and replaced it with ‘Levelling Up’ many here asked — isn’t that a downgrade? After all, the 2010 Coalition Government had not got off to an auspicious start. We lost our regional development agency, One North East, …
HISTORIC MOMENT: St Chad’s College in Durham was the historic setting for a historic moment as seven leaders from across the North East came together to sign the region’s devolution deal with Levelling Up Minister Jacob Young. With the deal signed, it ensures the area can hit the ground running when a new Mayor for …
Council tax bills are arriving through letterboxes across the region while services that we used to take for granted are under growing threat. Most of us are being asked to pay an extra 5% to our local authority, the maximum permitted by central government, but there is less money to spend on libraries, road repairs, …
Ministers have been accused of shortchanging the North East after it emerged that the region is to receive just £73m out of a new £4.7bn funding allocation. In a series of government announcements on Monday, reallocating funds from the axed HS2 rail scheme, the North West received £1.5m, Yorkshire and Humberside £950m, and the Midlands …
The old French proverb ‘the more things change, the more they remain the same’ can be applied to many things, particularly in the world of politics — but seldom does it ring more true than in the case of the North-South divide. Over the course of the last 30 years, governments of various persuasions have …
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