Jun 13, 2024 | Durham delivers
A pioneering Labour project to preserve and showcase the rich history of the Durham Light Infantry and create a modern leading-edge heritage experience opens today (Friday, June 14). The history centre, named last year as “The Story”, will welcome its first visitors...
May 29, 2024 | Durham delivers
Spennymoor councillor, Ian Geldard, has announced he is to return to the Labour party. Cllr Geldard returns having just finished his annual term as Spennymoor Town Council Mayor, using his final civic speech in the role to announce his decision to rejoin Labour. The...
May 23, 2024 | Durham delivers
North Durham MP Kevan Jones will not stand at the upcoming general election. The immensely popular former Cabinet Minister, who has spent 23 years serving the people of the North Durham constituency, took the difficult decision not to run as candidate as he is due to...
May 3, 2024 | Durham delivers
County Durham Labour has welcomed the election of the first North East Mayor, after Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Kim McGuinness, claimed victory at the polls. Labour Leader, Cllr Carl Marshall, said: “It is a fantastic result for Kim and a fantastic...
Mar 14, 2024 | Durham delivers
County Durham Labour has called on the Tory-led Coalition running the County Council to scrap plans to turn the former DLI Museum into a restaurant, labelling the move “an affront to the memory of fallen service men and women”. Having opposed the controversial move at...
Feb 29, 2024 | Durham delivers
Labour called out the repeated failures and shameful wastes of taxpayers’ money of the Tory-led Coalition running Durham County Council, as it finalised a controversial budget. Labour members had called on councillors to reject the budget – narrowly passed at...
