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Adrian Pearson

Adrian Pearson

200,000 working families to lose out under tax changes

ALMOST 200,000 working families in the North East will see their tax credits cut by as much as £500 as the full impact of benefit changes emerges.Read

North East has little to show so far from investment

THE Coalition’s Mid term Review includes an assessment of what the Government has done for the regions, and what it still intends to do.Read

City leader's blast after £10m added to cuts bill

MINISTERS should be stripped of the power to distribute council funding cuts after Newcastle’s budget black hole was widened to £100m, it was claimed last night.Read

Don’t ramp up rush-hour train fares, report warns

PASSENGERS who want to travel at peak times should not be penalised with even larger fare rises, a transport committee will warn today.Read

'Look to back office mergers to save some cash'

LIBRARIES, swimming pools and arts funding could be saved if councils merged back office services, it has been claimed.Read

Decision on Newcastle Council care home fee dispute

A DOOMED council attempt to force a judicial review over controversial care fees has ended. Newcastle Council has been refused permission to try to overturn a court hearing in which it was told it had set fees for care home operators too low, with the judge accepting business must be able to make a profit from the service they sell the council. Read

Dean of Newcastle in plea to Chancellor Osborne

A SENIOR church leader has accused the Chancellor of heartlessly dismissing unemployed people in the North East as “shirkers”. Read

Newcastle Airport investor says Tyneside should look to US for growth

NEWCASTLE Airport’s multi-billion-pound shareholder has said Tyneside should look to the US for growth.Read

Newcastle City Council warns of 'civil unrest' over cuts

NEWCASTLE has joined forces with two of the UK’s largest cities to warn of civil unrest if “unfair” cuts continue.Read

North East planning chiefs at odds over new homes

A CITY versus countryside row between council planning officers has emerged as Tyneside seeks to have its say on where homes and roads are built in rural Durham and Northumberland.Read

Community sentence re-offending figures a cause for alarm

ALMOST half of all criminals handed a community sentence go on to commit further crimes, new figures have shown.Read

Hexham MP Guy Opperman back on the attack

DEVELOPERS looking to build across the green belt will be handed a 12-month free-for- all after council planners failed to get their paperwork done, an MP has warned.Read

Wansbeck MP shows Northumberland man's suicide note to PM

DAVID Cameron has been urged to look again at disability benefit changes after a Northumberland man committed suicide when told he would lose all support.Read

Fears for future of hard-hit North East councils

WARNINGS have been sounded that some councils may end up going to the wall after the Communities Secretary announced millions of pounds more in spending cuts.Read

Concern in Northumberland and Durham over livestock disease

A LIVESTOCK disease which causes severe birth deformities in sheep and cattle is expected to appear in the North East this spring.Read

Mounting pressure to get A1 dualling plan done

PRESSURE is mounting on civil servants to begin putting together the business case for dualling the A1.Read

Stinging comment from Pickles to go with stinging cuts

THE Communities Secretary has waded into Newcastle’s arts cuts row with a stinging attack on the city’s decision to axe cash for flagship cultural venues.Read

MP backs Northumberland turbine distance guideline

AN energy minister has given his support to a bid to limit how close wind turbines can be built to each other in Northumberland.Read

Family of Jake Thompson demand CPS prosecute driver who killed son

A GRIEVING family is calling on the CPS to prosecute a driver at the wheel of a lorry which killed their son – more than 18 months after his death.Read

Wansbeck MP Ian Lavery resigns as aide over pensions battle

WANSBECK MP Ian Lavery has been forced to resign as a Parliamentary aide to Labour’s deputy leader after fighting to protect prison staff pensions.Read

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Adrian Pearson is The Journal's Regional Affairs Correspondent. He specialises in North East governance and has been at The Journal since 2007.

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