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In a time when the Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen is increasing his own budget by 79% please do have your say on that here:

teesvalley-ca.gov.uk/about/budget...

Did anyone else see the massive squadron of fighter jets flying over Teesside last night?

A new railway station for Northumberland: and three more to come A landmark day for public transport in the North East of England. The opening of the latest railway station on the Northumberland Line

Another one of my railway walks, combined with a visit to the newest railway station in the UK.

Courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk

A new railway station for Northumberland: and three more to come northeastbylines.co.uk/region/north...

I’ve been trying to post about this but they keep getting deleted so we need to keep highlighting it. This cannot be buried.

Can someone please tell me if there is an investigation into Johnson, Farage, Rees-Mogg and Gove conspiring to bring down a UK prime minister?

That’s both the monitoring officer and the finance director that were brought in to fix the mess of their predecessors hop skipping out of there.

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Shock as Teesworks loses its flagship project Ørsted, the overall contract holder for the Hornsea 3 job, has agreed with SeAH that work on the wind farm bases will be discontinued

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Ben (yes m’lord) Houchen’s Teesworks cash cow (for some) fails the UK once again.
When will this madness end (or be ended)?
Baron by entitlement, barren by impact.

Shock as Teesworks loses its flagship project Ørsted, the overall contract holder for the Hornsea 3 job, has agreed with SeAH that work on the wind farm bases will be discontinued

northeastbylines.co.uk/business/sho...

Shock as Teesworks loses its flagship project Ørsted, the overall contract holder for the Hornsea 3 job, has agreed with SeAH that work on the wind farm bases will be discontinued

northeastbylines.co.uk/business/sho...

Shock as Teesworks loses its flagship project Ørsted, the overall contract holder for the Hornsea 3 job, has agreed with SeAH that work on the wind farm bases will be discontinued

**********HOT OFF THE PRESS**********

Breaking news about another one of Ben Houchen's failing projects

********Shock as Teesworks loses its flagship project******** northeastbylines.co.uk/business/sho...

SeAH have lost their biggest contract (one of two) at Teesworks. Yet there is still no government inquiry into the whole project. Teessiders are being failed. We want answers.

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Oh I know. Turning it back into a cinema would have been nice since all the stuff needed for that was still in there but it was already too far gone when you were enquiring which is such a shame.

The Middlesbrough Development Corporation: where dreams come to die After two decades of false starts and rebrands, Middlesbrough’s Gresham project - now “Crown Square” - faces yet another pause

My latest article for @northeastbylines.co.uk on one of Ben Houchen's three failing mayoral development corporations

The Middlesbrough Development Corporation: where dreams come to die northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

There’ll be a mystery fire before that happens like. If only you’d been able to buy it. Would have been incredible!

Tees Valley care crisis: the care-to-crime cliff edge The evidence is clear. Poor outcomes are not inevitable, but they are predictable

The evidence is clear. Poor outcomes are not inevitable, but they are predictable | James Waterson

The stats in this are shocking. So many vulnerable young people are being failed by the system.

You are allowed to put two questions to Houchen but save them before you submit to make sure Mike Hughes doesn’t lose them down the back of his sofa.

IMPACT: Powering a Green Revolution We look at clean energy and advanced manufacturing and what the North East has to do to make sure these gamechangers grow.

The dream team Mike Hughes (former Recognition PR employee and Graham Robb bestie) alongside Ben Houchen are hosting a green energy networking event at Teesworks if any of you are interested.

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Teesside scrap metal firm pays nearly £30mn in dividends Teesworks Limited published its 2024/25 accounts this week

My take on the £30 million Teesworks dividend scandal, courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk

Teesside scrap metal firm pays nearly £30mn in dividends northeastbylines.co.uk/business/tee...

Houchen’s South Tees Development Corporation fails to meet finance code Every stone turned over at Houchen's TVCA group uncovers a new worm hill

There's no end to the financial incompetence of Ben Houchen. Great article by Peter Morris, courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk

Houchen’s South Tees Development Corporation fails to meet finance code northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

The government must intervene. The BVN is not enough.

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#StrippedTees is now available to read for free. Take a dive into this 8 page special report by @rbrooks45.bsky.social to learn everything we know about Teesside’s biggest scandal.

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‘Any Questions?’ comes to Teesside Any Answers? Just the usual

My take on the visit of BBC Radio 4's panel show to Billingham on Friday, courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk

‘Any Questions?’ comes to Teesside northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

The hollowness of Houchen’s hydrogen hype BP has confirmed that it is calling it quits on both of its Teesside hydrogen projects

My thought's on BP's decision to cancel the blue hydrogen project at Redcar, courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk

The hollowness of Houchen’s hydrogen hype northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...

Yes it is. He said it at his first public Mayors Question Time event in July where he also called the journalist who has done this incredible investigative work a “self-confessed communist”. The Lord doth protest too much, methinks.

I can answer that. It’s because the profits from the seed investment were meant to go on to redevelop the rest of the site but instead the STDC is left trying to default its loan repayments because Houchen allowed Musgrave and Corney to hoover up the profits and there’s nothing left to remediate.

It’s clear the BVN is not good enough because he continues to favour Musgrave and Corney over anyone else. See the latest Data Centre vs BP debacle. He’s gone to the media to portray it like there isn’t 1250 acres of land to work with. Build the data centre elsewhere on Teesworks. Why the BP land?

Reminder that this is what Houchen thinks of Richard Brooks. Would definitely have liked to be a fly on the wall when Houchen saw his 8 page expose had dropped.

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Get your copy of Private Eye to read the 8 page special by Richard Brooks. An incredible body of work that lays bare Houchen’s reign as Tees Valley Mayor.

He absolutely needs dragging to Parliament to explain himself and the police should be investigating the customs zone.

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