Campaigning for Labour in Allendale

10 June, 2023Allen Valleys, Elections, Home page featured, News

Labour Party members have been out and about in Allendale. We’ve been delivering leaflets and talking with our neighbours about politics and the issues that impact their lives. Right across Hexham Constituency Labour Party members are working to Build a Better Britain and get Guy Opperman out after 13 disastrous years of Conservative government. If … Read More

ANZSnack: How the Tories and BoJo betrayed our farmers

2 June, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Bywell, Campaigns, Corbridge, Elections, General Election, Haltwhistle, Hexham, Home page featured, News, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall, Prudhoe & District, Work, Economy & Environment

Free trade deals with Australia and New Zealand were trumpeted by the Conservative Government and the then PM Boris Johnson as victories for post-Brexit Britain. These trade deals came into force a couple of days ago with our current PM Rishi Sunak saying that: ‘These landmark deals squarely deliver on my priorities to drive economic … Read More

Out with Opperman! Campaigning for a Labour Government in Hexham

27 May, 2023Campaigns, General Election, Hexham, Home page featured, News, Parliamentary Candidate

Members of the Hexham Branch of the Labour Party, supported by members from Prudhoe, Bywell, Ponteland and Allen Valleys, were back campaigning in Hexham today after our success in Hexham East in February. We hit the streets and knocked on doors in Hexham Central. We were joined by Alex Norris, the Shadow Levelling-up Minister and … Read More

3 million miles of bus journeys lost in Northumberland

26 May, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Bywell, Campaigns, Corbridge, Elections, Haltwhistle, Hexham, Hexham Climate Emergency, Home page featured, News, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall, Prudhoe & District, Transport, Work, Economy & Environment

The Tories’ 13 years in power have seen bus services across the country suffer. In Northumberland alone it has been calculated that over 3 million miles of bus journeys have been lost since 2016 in a sustained decline. In a betrayal of the government’s ‘levelling up promises’ almost one in ten of Britain’s rural bus … Read More

Angie backs calls for water safety debate

22 May, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Bywell, Campaigns, Corbridge, Education, Haltwhistle, Health, Hexham, Home page featured, News, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall, Prudhoe & District, Youth

Blaydon MP Liz Twist and Prudhoe North County Councillor Angie Scott have called for a debate on water safety in the House of Commons. Last year saw the tragic death of 13 year old Robert Hattersley from Crawcrook, who drowned in the River Tyne at Ovingham. His bereaved parents have launched a campaign to raise … Read More

Labour plans bright future for industry

14 May, 2023Branches, Campaigns, Featured, General Election, Hexham Climate Emergency, Home page featured, News, Transport, Work, Economy & Environment

Labour has today pledged ‘a bright future’ for British industry under a Labour Government ahead of Keir Starmer’s speech to the British Chambers of Commerce on Wednesday. New analysis shows Labour’s plans to part-finance eight gigafactories will boost jobs in the automotive sector by 50%, creating 80,000 jobs and powering nearly two million electric vehicles. … Read More

Super Saturday Success in Prudhoe

13 May, 2023Campaigns, Crime, Elections, General Election, Home page featured, Mayor, News, Prudhoe & District, Uncategorized

The Prudhoe and District Branch of the Labour party, along with support from the rest of Hexham CLP were out listening to the concerns of residents in Prudhoe today. Angie Scott, County Councillor for Prudhoe North and our Town Councillors were out hearing resident’s concerns and they also ran a street stall in The Glade. … Read More

Guy Opperman voted to allow sewage in the Tyne

11 May, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Bywell, Campaigns, Corbridge, Elections, Haltwhistle, Hexham, Hexham Climate Emergency, Home page featured, News, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall, Prudhoe & District

In October 2021, Guy Opperman and most of his Conservative colleagues voted against an amendment to the environment bill that would have placed a legal duty on water companies not to pump waste into rivers. Not all his colleagues agreed. 22 Conservatives had the strength of character to vote for the amendment. The Environment Agency … Read More

Super Saturday comes to Prudhoe this weekend!

10 May, 2023Branches, Campaigns, Elections, General Election, Home page featured, News, Prudhoe & District

The Eurovision final isn’t the only exciting thing happening this Saturday 13th May! Labour Party members from Prudhoe branch and from all over Hexham constituency area will come together for a day of action, and special guests! ‘Super Saturday’ will see members knock on hundreds of doors in Prudhoe North and Prudhoe South, and take … Read More

Tories fail police and victims of crime

7 May, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Bywell, Corbridge, Crime, General Election, Haltwhistle, Hexham, Home page featured, News, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall, Prudhoe & District, Women, Work, Economy & Environment

Your Conservative MP Guy Opperman claims to be tough on crime and anti-social behaviour. The truth is that over the Tories’ thirteen years of failure Northumbria Police has taken the biggest financial hit of all the police forces in England and Wales. Our local police forces have been starved of funds and resources to the … Read More

Boundary review consultation

3 May, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Bywell, Corbridge, Elections, General Election, Haltwhistle, Hexham, Home page featured, News, Parliamentary Candidate, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall, Prudhoe & District

The Local Government and Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) are undertaking a review of the number of councillors, electoral divisions and division names for Northumberland County Council. You can explore the proposals for the new divisions on the LGBCE website. There are changes proposed for a number of areas in Hexham Constituency. The public consultation … Read More

Pothole Peril

2 May, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Bywell, Corbridge, General Election, Haltwhistle, Hexham, Home page featured, News, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall, Prudhoe & District, Transport, Work, Economy & Environment

Northumberland has the third highest number of potholes of any county in the country. Over 51,000 potholes were recorded in the year 2021/22 according to reported recently in the Northumberland Gazette. Potholes are caused by damage and erosion to road surfaces by heavy traffic, inclement weather and also by sub-standard repairs caused when utilities and … Read More

Opperman votes to block Sewage Discharge Bill

25 April, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Bywell, Campaigns, Corbridge, General Election, Groups, Haltwhistle, Health, Hexham, Hexham Climate Emergency, Home page featured, News, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall, Prudhoe & District, Uncategorized, Work, Economy & Environment

This evening the Conservative Hexham MP Guy Opperman has voted to support the PM’s amendment to Labour’s Jim McMahon’s (Shadow Secretary for the Environment) Water Quality (Sewage Discharge) Bill. This Bill would have cracked down on the polluting water companies flooding our rivers and beaches with sewage but has been rendered toothless by Tory actions. … Read More

Labour will scrap zero hours contracts

18 April, 2023Allen Valleys, Branches, Bywell, Campaigns, Corbridge, Elections, General Election, Groups, Haltwhistle, Hexham, Home page featured, News, Ponteland & Heddon on the Wall, Prudhoe & District, Women, Work, Economy & Environment, Youth

Angela Rayner, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party has pledged to scrap zero-hours contracts if the party wins the next General Election. According to Statista there are over a million workers in the UK on zero-hours contracts. This is a fourfold increase since 2010 when the Conservatives came to power and includes 47,000 workers in … Read More