In joining Reform while keeping a foot in Mica, are Saunders and Hill hedging their bets?

With the help of the Good Law Project, Nina Cresswell lodged a legal case against Northumbria Police for failing to...

Report by Julia Mazza

Count Binface has managed to reduce Farage's protest to farce, and he and his trash-can helmet are now at the...

When Reform UK became the largest party on Hartlepool's council it didn't take long for the horse-trading to start.

Reform UK Ltd have won all 12 seats that were up for grabs in the Hartlepool local council elections of...

An update on Reform UK

Labour plans to curb foreign political donations pose a challenge to Nigel Farage's Reform UK and its wealthy backers. -...

Local Labour councillors have made a formal request for a rent freeze as rents continue to go up

Updated from article first published 25.2.26

The Manning affair could result in Reform's local image being tarnished

The Reform candidate for an upcoming by election in Redcar and Cleveland has quit the party following revelations by Reform...

Here's the second in our series following the doings of Reform UK. Anything to add? Please email editor@northeastbylines.co.uk

The first in our new Reform Watch series

Reform UK now has a seat on Darlington council

Tory Stephen Dodds was returned with 1,194 votes. Bucking the trend of his party's by-election wins, Reform's Rick MacDonald gained...

Is there any strategy to the Reform UK by-elections? The tactics seem inconsistent and depend largely on the candidate

Nunthorpe by-election is on Thursday 4 December

Sue Jeffrey, a well known local Labour figure, beat Reform UK by a whisker

There is a local by election on 20 November in South Bank ward, 

Reform UK cheers a record victory as ex-Tory Craig Holmes takes Skelton East, with 65% in the party’s biggest win...

Harbour seal pups in Tees Estuary suffer 100% mortality in 2025, prompting MPs to demand a Defra inquiry into the...

"There's strength in numbers and plenty more we can all do. It boils down to three words: Boycott, Divestment and...

Helena Collins (Lena), a nun in Teesside received letters from her brother, Michael Collins, as Ireland’s fight for freedom raged...

Israel kills 231 Palestinian journalists and an Israeli military factory in Newcastle

Human rights solicitors Leigh Day have taken up the case of a former resident of a Nazareth House in South...

"Labour was in our DNA and on our side" - reflections on where we are now

Trump’s tariff hikes spark global market crash, wiping trillions and even hitting North East England’s pensions

Tensions flared at Stockton Council as Tories opposed a sick Labour councillor's dispensation, sparking accusations of political manoeuvring

Ex-Tory PCC Steve Turner and wife Andrea spark Reform UK coup fears in Redcar. Local Reform chair resists their move,...