NEWCASTLE MP Nick Brown yesterday cautioned those who would like to see a powerful elected mayor running Newcastle by raising the spectre of T Dan Smith.Read
A GOVERNMENT transport spokesman in the Lords has defended the failure to fully dual the A1 – declaring motorists are better off using a different road.Read
BUSINESS Secretary Vince Cable has defended the need to make "painful" cuts - but insisted the Government is helping the region recover economically.Read
DAVID Cameron was yesterday challenged over where he thinks a North East woman’s place is after a Tyneside MP warned of soaring female joblessness.Read
NORTH Durham MP Kevan Jones has accused Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles of rewarding his “friends” in Tory heartlands while not caring about the North East.Read
THE Government will today be challenged to explain plans that critics claim will hit the pay of public sector workers in the North East and create unemployment “ghettos”.Read
THE chief executive of Newcastle-based bakery chain Greggs yesterday urged the Government to press ahead with a new South-North high-speed rail line.Read
