As Newcastle City Council announces its largest parks investment in years, the local Labour-cabinet has still refused to back our community-led fundraising drive at Gosforth Central Park.
From potholes to overgrown hedges. Fawdon and West Gosforth Focus Team has been hard at work over the past year making sure local problems are raised, followed up, and resolved.
Councillors Henry and Wendy joined the council’s EPiC Team on a ward walkabout, tackling anti-social behaviour, parking issues, and celebrating local community initiatives
After nearly two years of pushing for change, the Lib Dem Focus Team celebrates a well-earned win for local safety and community resilience.
Refuge, family, and history: why Dr Wendy Taylor fights for a fair asylum system.
Cllr Mark Mitchell challenges Labour’s proposed digital ID scheme, calling it “wrong then, wrong now, and wrong for the future.”
Liberal Democrats stand with Newcastle residents as far-right event is cancelled. Cllr Colin Ferguson: Far-right agitators have no place in Newcastle
Labour councillors push through plans for a new petrol station and drive-through coffee shop on Rotary Way – despite strong opposition from residents, parish councillors, and your Parklands Liberal Democrat team.
Newcastle’s Labour MPs have come under fire after voting against a Liberal Democrat proposal to remove restrictions on free bus travel for disabled people.
Cuts to fire service funding could cost over 2,000 firefighter jobs nationwide, with the North East among the worst hit. Lib Dems urge Labour MPs and the Mayor to protect local fire services.
Fawdon Community Centre users are anxious about the future. NCAT has folded and the Council is running the building temporarily.
Newcastle’s Labour Cabinet faces pressure to rethink a 30-year Teesside incinerator deal after the Lib Dem Opposition wins a council vote, citing concerns over costs, recycling targets, and environmental impact.
