Politics

Plans to move Sunderland City Council’s HQ to the Vaux site have been branded an ‘admission of defeat’.

Hundreds of new homes could be built on the site of a former landmark paper mill under new plans lodged with Sunderland City Council.

It is “only a matter or time” until someone is killed or injured by a falling tree in County Durham.

It is time that Sunderland was put well and truly on the Government’s funding map – and that is what I am fighting for at both regional and national levels this month.

The Foreign Office has said it is "deeply concerned" about a British academic accused of spying in the United Arab Emirates after his wife called on the Government to say he was innocent.

The wife of a Durham academic who has been accused of spying in the United Arab Emirates has urged the Government to state his innocence.

The pub industry in Sunderland, worth tens of millions of pounds, could take a hit if beer duty is raised as expected later this month, Britain’s Beer Alliance has warned.

A demand has been made to put a pause to the process which could see Sunderland Civic Centre move to the Vaux site and its current HQ razed to make way for housing.

Last week, the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey let slip that families will be £200 a month worse off under Universal Credit, the government’s flagship welfare policy.

The time is ticking on plans to create a new civic centre for Sunderland in case its 1970s base is given listed building status.

From building a new railway station or concert hall to moving the civic centre near the cement works or even under them.

Sunderland Civic Centre could be moving to the city’s Vaux site - with the cleared plot to be sold off for family homes.

Councillors and their officers will “not make a penny” out of any move from its current site to the Siglion-led former Vaux plot.

Plans for a major manufacturing hub on a former B & Q warehouse site in Washington have been given the green light.