One in four North East households could fall into fuel poverty this autumn

Local councillor and Local Government Association warn about phone scammers.

Fly-tipping is a serious problem. Newcastle City Council and local residents are working hard to solve it.

What Newcastle City Council is doing to support local communities

Newcastle City Council plans for Newcastle to become net zero by 2030. Stephen Lambert and other city councillors explain.

Newcastle City Council has committed a further 1.2 million to improve local neighbourhoods and invest in a clean, green future.

Newcastle City Council and the Lottery Fund are working in partnership to give a boost to local youth services.

Community defibrillators are being rolled out across more Newcastle neighbourhoods as part of the Council's 'Heart Start' city programme.

Newcastle City Council has designated certain areas as No Cold Calling zones. This aims to reduce the fear and level...

Newcastle City Council is running a bursary scheme for Young Carers in the city who are planning to stay on...

Kenton residents are being asked to give their views on local traffic issues. Local councillors believe that this will make...

Newcastle Council with Street Games has organised a programme of activities and food for children across the city.

An independent think tank says 41% of children in Newcastle are growing up in poverty and too many have to...

Climate change is the largest crisis facing the planet but Newcastle City Council is doing its bit.

Four in ten youngsters across Newcastle are trapped in child poverty according to the NE Child Poverty Commission.

The key changes for trade unionism in the UK have been high unemployment, the growth in part-time, and flexible, zero-hours...

The UK government should retain the £20 increase to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit.

A look at the history of trade unions from 1979 with the Thatcher government to New Labour. What changed and...

Why do girls outdo boys at school? Stephen Lambert takes a look at some of the possible reasons including reading...

Stephen Lambert takes a look at the history of the Trade Union Movement from its beginning up until 1979, the...

Stephen Lambert congratulates Newcastle students on their achievements and celebrates the council's commitment to equality and inclusion.

After two decades of formal equality legislation, there's a compelling narrative to make our public bodies at the top more...

Following successful pilots elsewhere in the country and some 65 schemes covering 44,000 city households, Newcastle City Council continues to...

Overall it’s argued this would assist the parties to operate more effectively enabling them to 're-connect' with the public.

It begs the question as to whether referenda are fair or democratic in making far-reaching decisions?

We must also get tough on the deviant few and send out a robust message that ASB and incivility won't...

VOTING is the most basic form of political participation in a representative democracy like the UK.

Let's demolish the myths about inter-generational unemployment.

For individual young people, there are significant multiple 'scaring' effects associated time outside education and work.

MI5 and police have made the point that the threat posed by the extreme right in the north and elsewhere...