Jonathan Wallace

  On Saturday I underestimated the number of people expected to turn up for the Gateshead Lib Dem action day in Ryton. I only printed 500 su...

  On Saturday 12th July, Gateshead Lib Dems held another action day, this time in Ryton. There was a positive response on the doorsteps. And...

  On Thursday Friends of Sunnisde held their regular meeting. As the ward councillors, Jonathan Mohammed, Marilynn Ord and, I attend to give...

  Well done Planting Up Sunniside. Their volunteers have been at work maintaining the planters at the Kingsway/Sunniside Road junction in Su...

  I was in the Lib Dem office this morning to print surveys for four of our key wards to deliver over the coming days. Two of the wards are ...

  It was Gateshead Lib Dem group meeting last night. It was held on-line (our usual practice for group meetings). We discussed motions for t...

It doesn't feel like 20 years since the 7/7 London bombings but it is now 2 decades since the worst terrorist incident on UK soil. Much ...

  I was asked recently by the Whinnies Wanderers, a toddler group based at the Whinnies Community Garden in Sunniside, to bring along one of...

There was a by-election in Benfieldshire ward of Durham County Council yesterday. Reform were defending the seat, having taken it from Labou...

  I journeyed to London on Sunday for a couple of days of history related activities. I'm working on a history talk about John Nash, the...

  My attendance at local fairs normally entails the bringing of a goat. I'm regularly asked to take a goat, or other animal, to local fa...

 Last week I went to the Gateshead Lib Dem pool night at the Lock and Quay pub on the Gateshead Quays, next to the Swing Bridge. I have not ...