Mary Glindon

10:00, 20 JAN 2025

Newcastle MP 'shocked but not surprised' by city's poor life expectancy data

Mary Glindon MP blamed income levels and housing conditions for the city's poor life expectancy when compared to the rest of the UK

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Cash grant awarded to support arts project exploring the history of Newcastle's Byker Wall

The project has received a grant worth more than £14,000 from Historic England as part of its 'History in the Making' project

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Newcastle Labour MP says Government would be 'wise' to drop outdoor smoking ban

As rumours emerged that Downing Street is set to block proposals to ban smoking in outdoor areas, Newcastle East and Wallsend Mary Glindon says she feared the move would force pubs to close down

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How each North East MP voted in Winter Fuel payment motion

MPs voted by 349 to 228 votes to approve the plans to cut winter fuel payments to most pensioners - find out how your MP voted

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Newcastle election candidate wears crown and yellow robe on trip to Parliament after befriending MP

King Teare, the crown-wearing independent who stood in Newcastle North at the general election, was invited on a tour of Westminster by Labour's Mary Glindon

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Labour trio elected in Newcastle vow to 'give people their future back'

General election

Chi Onwurah, Catherine McKinnell, and Mary Glindon claimed victory in Newcastle as Labour was on course to win a landlslide that will put Sir Keir Starmer into Downing Street

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Labour accused of 'taking votes for granted' in Newcastle as constituency's only hustings cancelled

General election

Mary Glindon, Labour's candidate in Newcastle East and Wallsend, said she pulled out of a hustings in Heaton due to concerns that it risked attracting protests

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Mary Glindon MP quizzes Rishi Sunak over North Tyneside schools disrupted by concrete-related concerns

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced questions in this afternoon's PMQs over funding for North Tyneside Schools afflicted by concrete problems.

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Power cables over River Tyne could be removed – in 'vital' step to help create thousands of jobs

Energy regulator Ofgem has confirmed that options to divert the overhead power cables above the Tyne are being looked at, something that could remove a big restriction for riverside businesses

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Tyneside Labour MP announces she will stand in new seat, after dramatic Nick Brown resignation

Mary Glindon has confirmed that she has been chosen as the party’s candidate for the Newcastle East and Wallsend seat, with her constituency set to be abolished

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Howdon man fears children could be killed on 'dangerous' roads blighted by motorbikes and quad bikes

Alan Goodyear claims that quad bikers, off-road dirt bikers, and people on small petrol bikes have been treating the residential streets of Howdon 'like a race track'

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'More victims will not live to see justice' - MPs slam delays to contaminated blood compensation and reveal 'immense betrayal' felt by families

MPs have spoken about the "immense betrayal" felt by families of tainted blood victims like Graham Fox.

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Tyneside MP hits out over cancer waiting times and the lack of an NHS workforce plan in House of Commons

Mary Glindon urged the Government to act and publish a fully-funded NHS workforce plan

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'Anti-vaxxer' denies sending 'malicious' emails and messages to North Tyneside MP Mary Glindon

Digby Ritson is alleged to have sent the offensive communications to the MP, which included him calling her a Nazi, as well as to a police officer

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Man in court accused of sending malicious emails and messages to North Tyneside MP Mary Glindon

Digby Ritson is alleged to have sent the abusive communications to the MP as well as to a police officer

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MP raises tragic case of Charley-Ann Patterson in Westminster calling for mental health care within month

Mary Glindon MP said the Government should guarantee NHS mental health treatment for children and young people within a month of being referred for help.

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North Tyneside MP fumes at Boris Johnson 'still putting himself before the country'

The PM resigned on Thursday, but wants to stay in Downing Street until a successor is chosen

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MP rages over alleged No.10 Christmas party held as lockdown rules kept her apart from late husband

Mary Glindon was unable to visit husband Ray at the Freeman Hospital on the day that government officials allegedly partied at Downing Street

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North Tyneside MP holding event on Women's safety after Sarah Everard's murder

The event has been organised by the North Tyneside MP Mary Glindon and the mayor Norma Redfearn

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Memorial bench unveiled in honour of North Tyneside councillor who died after cancer battle

Ray Glindon, who was a long-serving councillor in the Camperdown ward, died in April - now a special bench has been installed in Burradon in his memory

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MP slams Government for causing 'panic' after telling people to stay away from North Tyneside

North Tyneside MP Mary Glindon said that she, public health officials, and council bosses were "completely in the dark" over guidance advising against non-essential travel to the borough

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Tributes pour in for veteran North Tyneside councillor who died following five year cancer battle

Coun Glindon, who represented the Camperdown ward, was also the cabinet member for finance

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Human body parts left to rot for over a year finally removed from Benton warehouse

Cliniwaste Ltd has removed stockpiles of body parts and other medical waste built up by liquidated firm Healthcare Environmental Services

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MP calls for inquiry after body parts left abandoned at Newcastle waste site for over a year

Rotting limbs are finally going to be removed from a locked-up building in Benton more than a year after they were discovered

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