Local businesses & organisations on how cycling improves the city & wellbeing
Great to get hear from local biz & others how cycling can improve the city & wellbeing – & meet some of the #bikelife2017 case studies
Newcastle businesses meet with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan
Small businesses and entrepreneurs from Newcastle today met with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to offer their thoughts on how best to improve economic connections between Newcastle and London. At a roundtable convened by Newcastle Central MP Chi Onwurah, attendees…
Statement on Operation Sanctuary Joint Serious Case Review Report
Today the Newcastle Safeguarding Boards have published their Operation Sanctuary Joint Serious Case Review Report. It covered the whole scope of the investigation by the Northumberland police force into sexual abuse in Newcastle and the subsequent action that needs to…
Frederick Douglass: the ex-slave and transatlantic celebrity who found freedom in Newcastle
Great article by Professor Brian Ward of Northumbria University http://theconversation.com/frederick-douglass-the-ex-slave-and-transatlantic-celebrity-who-found-freedom-in-newcastle-90886
Newcastle named as one of the UK’s top cities for inward investment
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/newcastle-named-one-uks-top-14313325
Impressive steel processing research at Newcastle College
Really impressed by #steel processing research of Newcastle College #MechEng student Adam Harper at #PiP2018 all whilst holding down a full time job!
Dear Newcastle February 2018
The last few weeks in Westminster has been dominated by the real economy and our deteriorating public services though Brexit remains a source of constant bickering in the Government. Visit to Gosforth Hotel January saw the collapse of Carillion with…
Industrial Strategy meeting in Newcastle
With Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Labour shadow Secretary of State for BEIS, in Newcastle’s historic Mining Institute hearing from businesses about how #industrialstrategy can boost jobs & productivity in North East
Chi Onwurah MP launches £10,000 competition for local schools
Chi Onwurah, Member of Parliament for Newcastle Central, has today launched a competition for schools based in her constituency to win money from a pot of £10,000. Schools based in Newcastle Central will be able to bid for the money,…