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Wansbeck District. / 55.169; -1.574. Admin. HQ. Wansbeck was a local government district in south-east Northumberland, England. Its main population centres were Ashington, Bedlington and Newbiggin-by-the-Sea . The area which was bounded by the district is mostly urban, on the North Sea coast north of the Tyneside conurbation.
Headquarters. Morpeth, Northumberland. Circulation. 238 (as of 2023) [1] ISSN. 1753-7266. Website. northumberlandgazette .co .uk. The News Post Leader is a British paid-for weekly that covers the north-east county of Northumberland, including the towns of Cramlington, Ashington, Bedlington and Blyth.
Ian Lavery. Ian Lavery (born 6 January 1963) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wansbeck from 2010 until 2024. He served as the Chair of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn from 2017 to 2020 and was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 2002 to 2010.
John Thompson DL (27 August 1928 – 21 July 2011), known as Jack Thompson, was a British Labour Party politician - the Member of Parliament for Wansbeck from 1983 to 1997. . Thompson had a lasting achievement to thwart a plan for a nuclear power station on the long and sandy Druridge Bay, east of Widdrington in the county, one of the leading beaches of Northumb
The News Post Leader covers mostly Wansbeck. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Newcastle on 95.4 FM, Capital North East on 105.3 FM, Heart North East on 101.8 FM, Smooth North East on 97.5 FM, Metro Radio on 97.1 FM, and Koast Radio, a community based station which broadcast from the town on 106.6 FM.
Wansbeck General Hospital. / 55.18444°N 1.54583°W / 55.18444; -1.54583. Wansbeck General Hospital is a district general hospital based in Ashington, Northumberland, England. It is managed by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust .
Wansbeck is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Ian Lavery, a member of the Labour Party. [n 2] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be abolished once again. Morpeth will be included in the re-established constituency of North ...
Northumberland. 55°10′59″N 1°30′54″W / . 55.183°N 1.515°W. / 55.183; -1.515. Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is a seaside town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, located on the North Sea coast. The town is a fishing port and formerly a part of a trade route for shipping grain. Between 1908 and 1967 the town had a coal mine ...