Do you remember what you were doing or where you were on Thursday November 4, 2004? It was an important day in our region’s history — but it could have been an historic one. We were asked to vote on whether we wanted an elected North East Assembly. Scotland and Wales already had a devolved …
There’s every likelihood that the North East mayor elected today will be chosen with the backing of less than 15% of the region’s electorate. That’s not to say they’ll be illegitimate. The winner will probably get somewhere around 35-40% of the vote, but if previous local elections are a good guide, turnout will be about …
If you’re someone who reads the news — maybe you even subscribe to a high-quality, regionally-focused online outlet — it’s easy to forget how little of what makes the headlines actually cuts through. To the average person on Stockton High Street on a Saturday afternoon, or at Morpeth Morrisons on a Wednesday evening, their knowledge …
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