A single by a Hartlepool duo to support the Bradley Lowery Foundation has reached the iTunes top 20. Olivia Crawford and Georgia Fletcher, who are known as Liv’N’G, released the song called Smile for Bradley. The pair recorded a cover of Charlie Chaplin’s Smile and added their own verse. It was released […]
The city of Sunderland has commemorated members of the armed forces from the city and the region in its annual flag raising ceremony. The union flag was raised at Sunderland’s Civic Centre at 10am this morning (Wednesday, June 21) to pay tribute to servicemen and women from the past and present. […]
Theresa May has announced she will form a Government that will “provide certainty”, despite having no majority. The Conservative leader, who was facing calls from Labour and the Liberal Democrats to step down, has pledged to form a Government with support from the Democratic Unionist Party. Britain currently has a hung […]
UKIP leader, Paul Nuttall, has stepped down as leader of the party after they failed to win a single seat in the general election. Nuttall has resigned with immediate effect, leaving Pete Whittle, London Assembly member as acting leader. The UKIP vote share plummeted to 2% and the party had lost £30,000 […]
As Britain wakes up to a hung parliament, here’s how the North East reacted to election night and the results on Twitter. Sunderland Central MP, Julie Elliott, held her seat with 55.5% of the vote. She tweeted to say she will “continue to fight our corner at every opportunity.” Thank […]
Britain has a hung parliament, with no party able to reach the 326 MP’s needed to achieve an absolute majority in the House of Commons. Prime Minister, Theresa May, called a snap election in the hopes of increasing the Conservative party’s majority and strengthening their position for Brexit negotiations. However, as the […]
LAST night’s unprecedented Labour party electoral battle – which began in the North East under the slogan ‘For the many, not the few’ – held a little-remembered historic resonance for Sunderland. For many may not realise that the socialist movement which has led to Jeremy Corbyn’s modern leadership started with North East electoral rebellion in the name of ‘the many, […]
JEREMY Corbyn has romped to victory in his Islington North seat – and called on Theresa May to resign, even as she was winning her Maidenhead seat. Mr Corbyn took just over 80% of the total votes cast, with 40,086 votes, dwarfing the Conservative vote of 6,871. Mrs May’s […]
THE shock result of the night so far has seen former Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg lose his Yorkshire seat to Labour. The man who led his party into government power for the first time, in coalition with the Conservatives under David Cameron after the 2010 election, was defeated by […]
LABOUR has held onto Hartlepool – a seat which many speculated could be lost to the party which has held it since 1964. Voting was as follows: Mike Hill (Lab) – 21,969 Carl Jackson (Cons) – 14,319 Phil Broughton (Ukip)- 4,801 Andy Hagan (Lib Dem) – 746 That gives Mike Hill […]