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Police on patrol

Double blow for region's policing

CASH-strapped North police forces face a double blow as they prepare for the cost of policing the Olympics and a major cut in officer pay.Read

Margaret Thatcher turned down 'godfather' for the North

MARGARET Thatcher turned down the chance to create a “godfather” for the North to see off a decade of unemployment, the Sunday Sun can reveal.Read

SNP leader Alex Salmond invited to tell region of plans

SCOTTISH leader Alex Salmond has been invited to the North as the region starts planning for an independent Scotland.Read

North Tyneside mayor urged to give cash away

A SENIOR North Tory has told union bosses she has no intention of giving away strikers’ wages to charities.Read

Newcastle Council leader Nick Forbes

North council pledges strikers' pay to charity

CHARITIES are pleading with council moneymen to follow a UK first by one North authority and hand over strikers’ wages to voluntary groups.Read

Overdue bills, council tax

North councillors owe thousands in unpaid tax

NORTH authorities are being denied thousands of pounds for bin collections and elderly care – by their own tax dodging councillors.Read

The World Cup trophy

World Cup 2018: Full cost to the North East revealed

THE Sunday Sun can today reveal the full shocking cost of the doomed bid to bring the World Cup to the North.Read

Ex-council leader calls on Fifa to return World Cup costs

THE man who led Newcastle Council during its bid to be a World Cup host city has urged the FA to recover council costs.Read

Ed Miliband fights for control of Newcastle City Council in local elections

LABOUR leader Ed Miliband came North yesterday bidding to win over voters left feeling “betrayed” by the coalition.Read

Labour bosses told Ray Mallon is unbeatable

LABOUR bosses in Middlesbrough have privately been told to concede defeat in the battle to oust Robocop . . . a month before voters go to the polls. Read

7,000 NHS patients treated privately last year

PATIENTS across the North are being forced out of the NHS as health chiefs come under pressure to use more private hospitals, it has been claimed.Read

PM shuns invitation to visit Easington

PRIME Minister David Cameron has turned down a direct plea to come to visit Easington and help its way out of deprivation.Read

Cuts blamed for burial and cremation price hikes

THE COST of death is set to rocket for grieving families, sparking claims that North council bosses are bidding to plug the gap left by budget cuts.Read

Region must brace itself for £700m cuts

MORE than £700m will be wiped off the region as the Government asks you to pay for the deficit, the Sunday Sun can reveal.Read

Northumbria Police to reduce staff by more than 1,100

Normal 0 NORTHUMBRIA Police will shed 1,143 posts over the next two year, it was confirmed today.Read

Ray Mallon: Cairo chaos could head North

ROBOCOP mayor Ray Mallon has warned the Prime Minister he is laying the foundations of Cairo-style protests in the UK.Read

Seaham film studio plans may be over

IT COULD have been the Hollywood of the UK, located at the heart of one of the North’s most deprived constituencies.Read

Music group under threat from funding cuts

MUSIC will become a lesson only for posh schools in the North if ministers don’t make a crucial funding decision.Read

Music lessons at North East schools face the axe

THE sound of music could soon be missing from North classrooms as the Government prepares to swipe millions of pounds from school budgets, the Sunday Sun can exclusively reveal.Read

Bank tycoon Anthony Thomson’s humble roots

A NORTH man has told of his rise from flogging ads in Tyneside to creating the UK’s newest high street bank.Read

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Adrian Pearson is The Journal's Regional Affairs Correspondent. He specialises in North East governance and has been at The Journal since 2007.