Benefit reforms branded the biggest shake-up to the welfare system in a generation will create a “pro-work system”, the Government has said.

The North East has been the only region of England with a "clear vision" for how to eradicate smoking, a Durham MP said this week. City of Durham MP Mary Kelly Foy (Labour) was quizzing health ...

North Durham MP Kevan Jones declared that the attitude of hugely profitable insurance companies to a compensation levy costing them just £350 million was an "insult" to the victims. "It seems that the ...