Lib Dem campaigners on Wearside have won cross-party support for their bid for the new North East Metro Mayor to be based in Sunderland to stop the city being overlooked.
Lib Dem councillors on Wearside are urging rail company bosses to urgently improve reliability of Sunderland to London train services which have been plagued by daily cancellations for months.
We desperately need guarantees that Sunderland will get a fair share of funding and actually benefit from projects coming as part of this new devolution deal, say Lib Dems.
A Sunderland councillor and anti-sewage campaigner is calling on Northumbrian Water to be overhauled following an overdue apology for sewage dumping on Seaburn and Whitburn beaches in Sunderland.
Responding to the publication of the TaxPayers' Alliance's Town Hall Rich List 2023 (which found that Sunderland Council had the second highest earning council employee in the country receiving a package worth £573,550 and a second employee making the top 20 list with receiving nearly £260,000), Leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats on Sunderland Council Niall Hodson said:
Local councillors have welcomed new government funding which could see an upgrade to the Chester Road / Springwell Road / Holborn Road junction in Sunderland.
