Delivering great places to play since 2000! ⚽️ Thanks to the @eng-premierleague.bsky.social , The FA and @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social , The Football Foundation has been investing in improving grassroots facilities in South Shields for 25 years. Find out more: footballfoundation.org.uk

🚨Biddick Hall Constituents🚨 📬Letters being sent this week to all Biddick Hall residents 👀Information about how YOU can decide to spend £20 million in your area🤝Looking forward to working with you all in delivering for Biddick Hall More info here 👇 www.shieldsgazette.com/news/opinion...

It’s #SmallBizSatUK An important reminder to #ShopLocal We have so many great businesses in South Shields. 👏🎉🛍️ This year for #SmallBizSatUK I visited Akins Family Bakers 🍞🥧🍰 & Green Lane Fisheries 🐟🦐🍟

This week our Commons Defence Committee visited HMNB Devonport as part of our #AUKUS inquiry. Thank you to Babcock & all who gave us their valuable time. 🚢⚓️

🎄❄️ Festive drop off at Key Community NE. Sweets, wollies & toiletries. 🍫🍬🧦🧣🧴🧼 Thank you so much Key for everything you do. 🙏💕

30,000 young service personnel to get the cost of their travel home covered this festive period. They don’t currently qualify for travel support, and Labour are changing that. We are on the side of our armed forces. 🎅🎄🎁

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Scrapping the two-child limit. 👦 Boosting childcare support for larger families. 🥗 Expanding free school meals. This Government is delivering on our mission to tackle childhood poverty.

Yesterday, I co-sponsored @yasminqureshimp.bsky.social Ten-Minute Rule Motion calling for a Fireworks (Noise Control Etc) Bill. The Bill would: 🎆 Set maximum noise levels for fireworks sold 🔊 Make noise-level labelling mandatory 🐶 Review the impact of firework noise on people and animals

Welcome news, hoping a resolution can be found for fair and fast compensation for the WASPI women. 🐝

I appeared on @itvtynetees.bsky.social last night to talk about my constituent Billy and our campaign to improve sentencing guidelines for causing death by dangerous driving. 💔

I will be speaking about this on @itvtynetees.bsky.social tonight. 💔📺

I'm looking forward to seeing our roads in South Shields being improved. 🛣️🚗 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Today, we remember all those who have lost their lives to HIV-AIDS. On World AIDS Day 2025, our Labour government is launching a new HIV Action Plan, backed by £170m of funding. We will end new HIV transmissions by 2030.

On the #LabourDoorstep this am in Westoe. 🌹💕

Always pleased to work with #MagicBreakfastUK. Another good result 👏 I will continue to work with them to improve school breakfast provision. 🏫🥗

A lovely #Asda drop-in this am. Thank you to all my constituents who came and chatted, you made my day. 💕 😊

The Labour Government are delivering a lower cost of living thanks to #Budget2025. 📈 Minimum and Living Wages increased ⚡️ Energy bills reduced 💊 Prescription prices frozen 🚉 Rail Fares frozen 🧓 £575 increase to the state pension

Popped into #Tesco Express in Westoe Crown this am to donate to their Winter Food Collection programme.🥫❄️👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Sign up to my newsletter here 👉 mailchi.mp/9ff93f062f28... 📰🗞️

🚨Myth busters on the two child benefit cap. It is right that this Labour Govt are scrapping it. 🌹👇👶🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Thank you to @childofthenorth.bsky.social, #HealthEquityNorth and @n8research.bsky.social (1/2)

I again raised my constituent Sophie’s stalking ordeal in the House today and called for the Government to take urgent action.

My #ShieldsGazette column, written before #Budget2025. After years of campaigning, I was pleased to see: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Two-child benefit limit scrapped ⛏️ Justice for BCSSS miners' pensions 🧑‍🍳 Lower Business Rates introduced for hospitality venues Read here: www.shieldsgazette.com/news/opinion...

It’s #FamilyBusinessWeek2025! 🎉 A week to celebrate family businesses that do so much for our local economy and community. We are so fortunate to have so many great family businesses here in South Shields! ☕️🍬🍭🎣🍟

Thanks to Grahame Morris MP for his leadership on this. 230 South Shields pensioners will now get an uplift. #Budget2025 🌹💷⛏️

The Chancellor has scrapped the two-child limit, lifting 450 000 children out of poverty. This is what Labour Govts do. Thank you to everyone who never stopped pushing for this. #Budget2025 🌹👶👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/statements-f...

Celebrating school support staff, the Stars in Our Schools with Unison tonight. ⭐️🏫🎉

I popped to see the team from Asda's #TickledPink campaign today with @breastcancernow.bsky.social and #CoppaFeel in Parliament. 🩷 Celebrating raising £100 million for vital Breast Cancer support! 🥳🎉

It was good to meet with Minister Timms again this morning to discuss the Govt’s plans for an asbestos census. ⚠️📜 I’m pleased to say that the Minister is hopeful that an effective census of asbestos prevalence in public buildings will be in place by next September. @mesouk.bsky.social

A Tourism Tax will negatively impact on our hard-working Hospitality Industry in South Shields. Today I urged the Govt to not impose this on us. @ukhospitality.bsky.social #TaxedOut 💷🧑‍🍳🏖️

After my petition supported by constituents forced ST Council to stop the spread of new HMOs, today I asked the Secretary of State about the Govt's plans to deal with the saturation of existing HMOs in South Shields. Licensing needs urgent reform so we can close down badly run HMOs 🏘️

School Breakfast News 🎉 💷Funding rise 🎯 Support for areas most in need 🧒 Half a million children to benefit 🥳 More schools in Shields eligible to apply  I will keep working with Magic Breakfast & the Government to improve this offer further. 🍏🥛🌹

At Leeds Building Society on King Street yesterday seeing how their Fraud Clinic operates. A free and vital service. #FraudAwarenessWeek👍 💷

A great morning with impressive pupils and some excellent Qs from Mortimer CC Yr 7 #UKParliamentWeek👏‍🏫

I have added my signature to the letter below, calling on the Chancellor to introduce wealth taxes in next week's Budget. ✍️📨

This is a very powerful video from the North East Child Poverty Commission about the importance of scrapping the two-child limit. fb.watch/Du_RK463uH/

Our most recent Defence Committee inquiry highlights the serious issues facing our armed forces and calls on the Government to take urgent action on ensuring Britain's defence and security. 🪖🪂🇬🇧 publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...

This #RoadSafetyAwareness Week I’m backing Labour’s first national Road Safety Strategy in over a decade - to save lives & make our streets safer for everyone. Every journey should be safe, whether on foot, bike, or car. 🚸🚦

📢Today the Govt has confirmed that South Shields is set to benefit from GB Energy’s solar programme cutting energy bills for #WestoeCrownPrimary and #MortimerCommunityCollege 🎉☀️

In Biddick this am for a chilly #LabourDoorstep Thanks to everyone for the gorgeous chats 💕🥶🌹

What a joyous day, South Shields' very own Dame Bella popped into parliament to celebrate all things panto. @artscouncilengland.bsky.social 🎉🎭 💕

In my latest #ShieldsGazette column, I discuss the Government's new Veterans Strategy and how it will deliver the very best for the heroes who have given us all so much. Read it here: www.shieldsgazette.com/news/opinion...

Thanks to @stevewitherdenmp.bsky.social for coordinating this EDM calling for the full abolition of the two-child limit which I recently signed. ✍️👧👦🧒

Lovely to have constituents John & Gill visit Parliament today. Hope you both have a safe journey home. 🏡💕

Great to meet with representatives from the Fireworks Impact Coalition (and Teddy the dog! 🐶) in Parliament today. We discussed the negative impact that fireworks can have on animals and people. I fully back them in their campaign to make celebrations safer for all. 🎆

At every opportunity I have voted for compensation for @waspicampaign.bsky.social women. They always have and always will have my full support. Hopeful this fresh look will have the right result.🤞

With NSPKU yesterday supporting the #PKU community. The right treatment could transform the lives of people with PKU. Lets keep making their voices heard till they get it. 🤝📢

Supporting #Paws4Access 🐾 tonight in Parliament. Disabled people and their assistance dogs are being refused access to shops, restuarants & transport. This discrimination has to stop. @lucyedwards.bsky.social 🐕‍🦺🦮

Always good to catch up with @coalfieldsregen.bsky.social sharing ideas about investing in South Shields 💷🤝

A very productive @childofthenorth.bsky.social APPG meeting this afternoon, discussing our upcoming report. Lots of great ideas shared that we will be taking forward ✍️📜

Thank you to my constituent, George Crozier, for a copy of his debut novel, 'The Lady in the Barrel'. Looking forward to reading it.📕