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Finally, the time to tackle ticket touts may have come

Attempts dating back well over a decade to introduce specific financial mechanisms for ticket resales are yet to result in legal controls to protect fans. So it’s notable that the cultural plan in Labour’s manifesto singles out ticket touting for making “access to music, drama and sport … difficult and…

The Conversation

Revealed: how touts drew up secret plans to sabotage Labour’s ticket reforms

Exclusive: Footage shows private event, attended by representatives of firms including StubHub and Viagogo, where £73,000 was raised for political lobbying

The Guardian - UK

Ban ticket resellers from making profit in UK, say musicians’ managers

Industry figures want ministers to follow Ireland and France’s lead and stop touts from making huge mark-ups

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Girl, 7, writes tear-jerking 'sad and sleepy' plea to Rishi Sunak for free school meals

Dozens of MPs, activists and school children gathered outside the gates of No10 to hand over an open letter to the PM calling for free school meals for all primary school pupils to prevent kids from going hungry

Daily Mirror

Your options if your bank including Lloyds, Halifax, NatWest and HSBC is shutting its doors in the North East

Seventeen North East communities so far are losing their branches in 2023 as more people opt to use online services

Chronicle Live

'Keir Starmer should put free school meals for all pupils in Labour's manifesto'

Sharon Hodgson, an MP in North East England, recalls the stigma of queueing for free dinners. But this is about more than ending any stigma for the one-in-five who receive them

Daily Mirror

Labour MP who knows stigma of free school meals urges Keir Starmer to extend them

Sharon Hodgson, who was the Labour leader’s Commons aide until only a few months ago, threw her weight behind the Mirror’s campaign for universal free school meals in primary schools

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Barclays bank slashes opening hours at most of its remaining branches

Announcement comes as bank plans to shut 122 branches, including Prudhoe, Washington, Alnwick, Seahouses and Haltwhistle

Chronicle Live

Full list of all banks closing in the North East this year - including The Galleries, Washington

Latest closures announced by Barclays means there will be a total of 15 banks closing in the North East this year so far

Chronicle Live

MPs claim £63k on first class tickets in months - and moan about public being told

Taxpayers footed the bill for top-flight journeys made by 115 MPs, with Tory Anne Marie Morris claiming the most back with £2,842 for 11 trips from her constituency to London

Daily Mirror

'Totally unacceptable' MPs fury over Northern Rail's decision to close Sunderland station over Christmas

Julie Elliott, Bridget Phillipson and Sharon Hodgson have released a joint statement about the decision

Chronicle Live

Drive to support veterans into jobs arrives in the North East with £40,000 boost from Asda

"Remembrance Sunday seems a good time to highlight that many veterans find themselves unemployed, in prison or homeless."

Chronicle Live

Veteran claiming Universal Credit and forced to live in his car was 'left to cope' after leaving army

Marc Hill, formerly of the 1st Battalion Light Infantry, served in Afghanistan and Iraq says more needs to be done to help veterans when leaving the military

Chronicle Live

Thousands wait more than a month for GP's appointment - as Labour MP attacks Government broken promises

The Government's "underfunding" of GPs has again been criticised.

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Cost of living: MPs and mental health charity demand Government does more to stop crisis pushing most vulnerable to 'breaking point'

Kate Osborne and Sharon Hodgson have joined charity Mental Health Concern to call for the Government to step up its support to the poorest in society.

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MP calls for Washington DWP office closure plan to be reversed

Moving 945 jobs from Durham House to Sunderland would be a blow to Washington's wider community, says Sharon Hodgson

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