MAYOR STEPPING DOWN: Dame Norma Redfearn has announced she is to step down from her role as Mayor of North Tyneside in 2025. Having held the position since 2013, she has decided against standing for re-election for a fourth term. The news was confirmed via an email to local Labour Party members earlier this week. …
Two of the region’s best known business figures retired this week having served their companies for 60 years between them. Graeme Mason stepped down from his role at Newcastle International Airport, while Jamie Martin said farewell to colleagues at Ward Hadaway. In a post on LinkedIn, Graeme described his 30 years at the airport as …
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 …
Nothing demonstrates the importance of transport to our region’s economy more than the bus strike which affected the North East at the end of last year. With limited options for alternatives, many people simply could not get to work, school or college. Rachel Anderson understands the need for better transport infrastructure more than most. As …
Bookmakers don’t often make mistakes. There may be six runners attempting to be first past the post in the race to be North East mayor, but they make it a two-horse race. Labour candidate Kim McGuinness is favourite at 1-2 while independent Jamie Driscoll is a 13-8 shot. That means if you put £1 on …
On the face of it, managing the Metro is a thankless task. Record delays to the service, the painful disintegration of an ageing fleet, damaging storms destroying decades of investment and technical problems plaguing the network’s incoming trains have all contributed to a miserable few years for the team tackling crisis upon crisis. It’s to …
North East leaders of England’s most prominent countryside charity have joined the clamour for the Leamside Line railway line to be re-opened. Andrew Thompson, chair of CPRE Durham and Richard Cowen, chair of CPRE North East say that as well as the economic benefits the 21-mile stretch of railway line would bring, there would be …
In my last column, I wrote that if anything has come to define the relative failure of the Government’s attempts to address the North-South divide over the past 14 years, it is surely the fiasco of HS2. A project that was supposed to link London with the North at a total cost of £37.5bn is …
GREGGS BONUS: Thousands of Greggs staff will receive a share of a £17.6m bonus pot after the bakery chain announced a record annual profit and revealed it had overtaken McDonald’s to become the No.1 takeaway breakfast seller in Britain for the first time. Profits increased by 27% to £188m, meaning that 25,000 of its 32,000 …
There is a lot said about the Leamside Line, especially after it was caught up in the Government’s Network North announcement in October last year. Yesterday (March 5) it was announced that the North East has been awarded funding which will be used to develop a new business case for the south end of the …
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