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20 Most Recent News Stories
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Sat 20th Sep 2008
Following the review of Post Offices in Northumberland, rural Tynedale faces dramatic cuts to its Post Office services. Villages throughout the region are set to lose their Post Office or be limited to the occasional visit by a "mobile office", typifying the Labour government's continued neglect of rural communities.
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Tue 1st Jul 2008
Speaking at the Northumberland Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) annual conference to be held at Alnwick Gardens today, Councillor Neil Bradbury will calm the fears of community groups across the county over the possibility of slashed funding by the new Northumberland Authority.
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Tue 17th Jun 2008
Despite strong vocal opposition from local communities, the closure process continues.
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Tue 10th Jun 2008
Is your nearest phone box under threat?. If you are unhappy about this then contact Tynedale Planning Department email planning@tynedale.gov.uk
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Thu 5th Jun 2008
The Liberal Democrats have got straight to work in keeping their election pledge on post 16 school transport. They have agreement that all transport charges for post 16 students will be scrapped.
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Fri 30th May 2008
In 6 short years the Hexham Juniors Football Club has made significant progress both on an off the field. As the club advances towards a long held ambition for junior football in Hexham, having a place Junior Football can call 'home', Northumberland County Councillor Derek Kennedy of Hexham West has stepped in to back the club's ambition and effort by allocating almost £10,000 from the Council's Local Improvement Scheme Fund to the DukesHouse Wood Development. This contribution will be used specifically to provide the floodlighting for the training pitch at DukesHouse Wood.
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Fri 2nd May 2008
With dramatic gains across Northumberland, the Liberal Democrats have emerged as the largest party in for the new Northumberland Unitary authority.
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Wed 30th Apr 2008
Liberal Democrats in the Hexham Constituency and across Northumberland are hopeful of being the strongest party following the elections for the new Northumberland council on Thursday.
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Mon 21st Apr 2008
In sensational scenes, the Conservatives own leader on Tynedale has not been selected to fight a seat in the forthcoming elections on the 1st May and so is standing as an independent against his own party. Across Tynedale the Tories have been subsumed in infighting with 4 candidates standing against their own party. Labour has not been totally immune from this either, with two embittered councillors standing against their own party.
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Sun 6th Apr 2008
In May 2008 elections will be taking place throughout Northumberland to elect councillors for the new unitary authority to replace Tynedale District and Northumberland County Council.
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Fri 28th Mar 2008
The recent row about GP contracts is alarming. Not only are hard working public servants being put under unacceptable pressure but there are other serious issues.
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Wed 19th Mar 2008
Former Northumberland District and County Councillor, Andrew Duffield - who is also his party's Parliamentary candidate for the Hexham Constituency - has stepped into the Unitary Authority battle for Corbridge.
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Mon 17th Mar 2008
Appalled at Conservative Tynedale Council's decision to pay senior staff £290,000 in retention payments, Liberal Democrat's parliamentary candidate Andrew Duffield has written to the Prime Minister.
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Mon 10th Mar 2008
Finally the Conservatives on Tynedale Council have admitted that they will hand over millions upon millions to the new Unitary authority. At least £15 million of your money will be lost and is likely to be swallowed up by the County Council's £230 million debts.
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Wed 5th Mar 2008
Following a Liberal Democrat campaign, the Labour County Council have agreed to review the cost of the transport charges for students aged over 16. Labour increased the charge to £360 a year and were condemned by Lib Dems who called it "a tax on education" and demanded the "charges to be reduced to something much more reasonable".
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Fri 29th Feb 2008
Tynedale has recently approved a host of small development schemes for affordable housing in the West and North of the district. Despite reservations at times about what constitutes 'affordable' housing, the LibDems have strongly supported such schemes but there has been a serious lack of action towards providing affordable housing east of the A68.
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Wed 27th Feb 2008
Once again, Labour has published a new strategy on drugs and, once again, it has totally failed to grasp the underlying nature of the drugs problem, so condemning more young people to a life of dependency, debt (leading to serious crime) and, ultimately, to a premature death - either directly or, ever increasingly, as a result of gang violence.
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Wed 20th Feb 2008
Conservative Party leader, David Cameron is keen to push the green agenda at every opportunity. So why is it that the local Hexham Conservative Party is the complete anti-thesis of their central party when it comes to the green agenda?
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Sat 16th Feb 2008
The centralising control-freak tendency of Labour's high command continues! Having failed to step in and redirect regional cash surpluses to the beleaguered Northumberland Healthcare Trust, thereby forcing local GPs to accept massive funding cuts which put patients at risk, Labour now wants to get rid of small medical practices and replace them with huge impersonal, factory-scale doctors' surgeries in the major population centres.
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Fri 15th Feb 2008
Domination by the big UK supermarket companies of the retail food market has long been a thorn in the side of farmers and local shops. Once again, the Competition Commission has been looking at the matter - its 3rd report in 7 years - and once again it has issued some draft recommendations which are intended to help level the playing field for consumers and suppliers. The proposals include:
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