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A Labour councillor representing Tynemouth has been suspended by the party after allegedly sharing an image in which he appeared to be holding a firearm. Councillor Tom Bailey is now reportedly the...
Joseph Cowen used his Newcastle newspaper empire to champion working-class causes and shelter some of nineteenth-century Europe's most wanted revolutionaries, becoming the region's most influential radical voice.
In 1935 a Glasgow-born trade unionist defeated a sitting Prime Minister in his own County Durham seat, beginning one of the longest political careers in British history.
Andrew Cunningham held an extraordinary concentration of power across County Durham for two decades, before his conviction in the Poulson Affair ended his career in disgrace.
A former Reform UK councillor has lost his place on Northumberland County Council after failing to a...
Barely three months have passed since voters across much of the North East went to the polls, but a ...
The story of Admiral Lord Collingwood, the son of Newcastle who rose to the highest ranks of the navy and played a decisive role in a famous naval battle.
A North East councillor elected for Reform UK just months ago is now sitting as an independent after...
Thousands of people have been drawn into a political row over a supposed Newcastle cycle lane that c...
Polling now shows more people favouring a proportional voting system than keeping first past the post. Here is what is driving the discussion.
Reform UK has unveiled plans for a major overhaul of Britain's welfare system, with proposals that t...
Imagine waking up tomorrow to find that every immigrant in Britain had suddenly disappeared. The ...
What would happen if artificial intelligence was handed the keys to Newcastle and told to make the c...
Can an employer legally favour a woman, ethnic minority candidate or another underrepresented applic...
Newcastle has become noticeably more ethnically diverse over the past decade, while some of the city...
In October 1891, William Gladstone stood before the National Liberal Federation in Newcastle and delivered a speech that would shape a general election and define Liberal policy for a generation.
For nearly two centuries, the keelmen who moved Newcastle's coal along the Tyne repeatedly downed tools and took to the streets, making Tyneside one of Britain's most persistent centres of industrial unrest.
Newcastle's political landscape has shifted considerably in recent years, with newer parties challenging the traditional dominance long enjoyed by Labour across the city.
Newcastle has long been recognised as one of the UK's key asylum dispersal cities, but where does it...
