Gateshead
New CCTV for Durham Road
Durham Road will be getting two new CCTV cameras from Northumbria Police.
1 Sep 2025
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Gateshead
Lib Dems - the real alternative to Labour in Gateshead
Lib Dem Focus Team - Working hard all year round!
1 Aug 2025
Gateshead
Labour demolishes greenbelt
After years of battles in Gateshead Council, the bulldozers have been sent into the fields to the south of Whickham Highway. Labour’s housing plans for 570 houses on former greenbelt are taking shape.
1 Jul 2025
Gateshead
Gateshead Lib Dems call for Winter Fuel Payments to be backdated for local pensioners
Under the Government’s plans, all pensioners earning £35,000 a year or less will now have their Winter Fuel Payments reinstated this winter. However, those who are now eligible but lost out last winter won’t be reimbursed under the Government’s plans.
JW
19 Jun 2025
Gateshead
It shouldn't be like this! Croft Estate
Too many properties on the Croft Estate are boarded up. Residents suffer from graffiti. Homes are left empty for too long at a time of a housing shortage. Fire damaged properties stand dangerously. It shouldn’t be like this!
JW
2 Jun 2025
Gateshead
Lib Dems call for experts to assess the risks!
Local residents have raised concerns with your local Lib Dem Focus Team about the proximity to each other of the Flogas site, the lithium ion battery farm and KMK Pallets on Newburn Bridge Road.
JW
1 Jun 2025
In Other News...
In Other News
Bill Quay Fire: Statement from Pelaw and Heworth Ward Councillors
Local councillors Amanda Wintcher, Ian Patterson and Paul Diston share our community’s sadness about the tragedy that occurred in Bill Quay on Friday evening. Our thoughts are especially with Layton’s family and friends.
4 May 2025
Gateshead
Gateshead care centre put into special measures with residents 'at risk of harm'
Whistleblowers told the Care Quality Commission about a range of safety issues at the Sister Winifred Laver Promoting Independence Centre in Felling
26 Mar 2025
Gateshead
Why a Tyne Bridge restoration cash U-turn would be 'spectacular own goal' for Labour
Senior politicians, and business leaders are today urging the Government to end months of uncertainty and commit to providing the final £6 million for the Tyne Bridge's restoration
24 Mar 2025
Gateshead
Gateshead council tax bill rise of 4.99% approved as leader admits 'burden' on households
Gateshead Council agreed budget plans on Thursday that include a council tax rise and spending £11 million of its reserves, but says that frontline service cuts have been avoided
21 Mar 2025
Gateshead
Gateshead council approve funding for project that helped vulnerable man who cost services £2m
A bespoke care programme is set to receive another years funding to help the regions most difficult and complex cases.
20 Mar 2025
Gateshead
Gateshead Flyover will be 'gone within a year', council leader promises
Three months on from the sudden closure of the A167 Gateshead Highway flyover in December, Gateshead Council formally committed on Tuesday to tear it down.
18 Mar 2025