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It was all smiles when Rishi Sunak joined Ben Houchen at Teesside Airport last week to celebrate him winning a third term as mayor, but it's the...
Ben Houchen has won the Tees Valley Mayoral Election and secured a third term in the post, it has been confirmed. It has been revealed the...
WELL done Steve Gibson, Middlesbrough FC owner, for calling out Tory mayor Ben Houchen and backing Labour’s Chris McEwan as the best prospect for...
Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen has been accused of “giving away our children’s future” by the chairman of Middlesbrough FC, Steve Gibson, in a...
BY the time you get to my age – 62 next month – you really should be a bit wiser and more dignified. Well, I’ll let you judge whether that’s...
Labour has urged Ben Houchen to turn down any Tory party money that came from Frank Hester ahead of May’s mayoral elections. Labour candidate for...
Every now and then, Facebook throws up memories from long forgotten posts. Today, it's given me a Dad At Large column from February, 2015, and it...
The Tees Valley Mayor has today (Monday, February 5) pledged to make swimming free for all children under 11. Since Mayor Ben Houchen launched his...
AT long last, we’ve been having a clear-out of all the clutter our four grown-up children have left behind – and a treasure trove of memories has...
Critics of a £1bn transport plan for the Tees Valley, which includes town centre tram services and millions of pounds worth of rail and road...
‘Trams’ could be running around town centres in the Tees Valley in the next two years, Ben Houchen has today claimed. It is one of 26 transport...
NO matter what other surprises may be unwrapped this Christmas, it’s hard to imagine anything causing more excitement than the old carrier bag my...
Plans worth £150m have today been unveiled for a brand new bus and railway station at retail park Teesside Park. The new transport hub is set to...
CHILDREN pay the price of growing up in poverty in terms of their health, their well-being and their life chances, but also the country as a whole...
Teesside Airport is still losing money but is edging towards profitability for the first time in years, encouraging new financial reports show. ...
Candidates bidding to become the next Tees Valley Mayor have both pledged to save a historic industrial landmark. Labour's Chris McEwan launched his...
The Tees Valley Mayor has put forward the region as an alternative for a replica of the Las Vegas Sphere. Ben Houchen said Teesside’s workforce...
As Remembrance weekend approaches, PETER BARRON tells the story of how a glass eye, kept in a wooden box by his mother for more than 70 years,...
IN a bid to improve our little granddaughter’s understanding of letters, I challenged her to a game of ‘Hangman’. I’d taken Chloe and her...
IT is the time of year that fills parents with a combination of joy and dread. Halloween kicks off a three month extravaganza of parties and events,...
The Tees Valley Combined Authority expects to use up more than £100m of its reserves in the next four years. Concerns were raised about the...
PARENTS and carers are children’s first teachers and the tiny things they do, like chatting, reading and playing with their young children make a...
BRIGHT-EYED and bushy-tailed, my dear old mum reached the grand old age of 92 yesterday, and she’s still going strong. In fact, we’re having a job...
THE working week has ended with the teenagers who were involved in the murder of Newton Aycliffe’s Jack Woodley, 18, failing to get their...
The location of a site in Teesside which will soon be home to a £1.5bn clean energy power station with carbon capture technology has been...
A £1.5 billion Net Zero project officially began today (September 27) with a groundbreaking ceremony which will eventually bring thousands of jobs...
Public money totalling £7,000 was spent by Ben Houchen’s Tees Valley Combined Authority on legal advice from a top libel lawyer after allegations...
WITHOUT wanting to sound melodramatic or morbid, there’s something about being a grandad, and passing the 60-mark, that makes the prospect of death...