Gareth Kane, seen here with Nick Clegg, is fighting for Newcastle Central

Gareth Kane is the Liberal Democrat prospective MP for Newcastle Central.

Gareth is also an Ouseburn Ward councillor and was first elected 2004 and re-elected 2006.

Gareth was born and brought up in Northern Ireland, before moving to England. He has lived in the North East for more than a decade. He works as an environmental consultant.

Gareth has worked in the Civil Service in London and at Newcastle and Teesside Universities on environmental projects, before setting up his own consultancy. He has worked with hundreds of organisations to improve their environmental performance. He has appeared as a media pundit on sustainability issues on the BBC Six O'Clock News, Countryfile and The Politics Show. In 2008 The Journal newspaper named Gareth as a 'Rising Star, Future Leader' for his work on sustainability. In 2009 his first book, The Three Secrets of Green Business, was published by Earthscan.

Gareth is interested in music (including writing and recording own tracks), environmental issues, cycling (volunteer Ranger for Sustrans), travelling, hiking, photography.

He has travelled by train from London to Beijing (in two chunks). He took part in a student expedition to Ecuador in 1993 which discovered four unknown species of butterfly.

Gareth lives with his long-term partner, Karen, a lecturer at Durham University, and their young sons Harry and Jimmy.

You can contact Gareth on gareth.kane@newcastle-libdems.org.uk.

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