Category: News
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Local campaign secures transport commitments
Over several months Luke has worked with residents, council officers and other elected representatives to revive the plan to restore passenger rail to East Cleveland – with a petition which gathered hundreds of signatures from the villages. The campaign has called on the Tees Valley Combined Authority to commit to…
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Guisborough event on child poverty
Luke was invited to Guisborough Methodist by Revd Kevin Highfield, to speak to the congretation about his work on child poverty during his time as Cabinet Member for Children in Redcar & Cleveland. Luke said: “It was a pleasure to be invited to Guisborough Methodist this evening to speak about the…
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Remembrance Sunday 2023
Today (12 November 2023) Luke joined Remembrance Sunday services across Redcar & Cleveland. He laid wreaths in Loftus, Skinningrove, Lingdale and New Marske in memory of the fallen from the villages of East Cleveland. Luke said: “Today we remember those from our communities who have kept us safe, through service…
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Luke stands with Skelton ASDA workers
Today (6th November 2023) Luke joined ASDA retail workers in Skelton demonstrating for equal pay. Today marks ASDA’s ‘equal pay day’ – the day that ASDA’s retail workers start working for ‘free’ compared to their colleagues in the depots. This means that ASDA’s retail workers are effectively working the entire…
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Luke visits Freebrough in Brotton
Luke recently visited his old school, Freebrough Academy in Brotton, to see the work they have done to get the school to its ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted rating earlier this year. The school was rated ‘Inadequate’ in 2018, with inspectors raising concerns about safeguarding and behaviour – but is now rated among…
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Baby loss parents decorate Saltburn pier with ribbons
10 October 2023, BBC News Ribbons with names and messages written on them are being tied to a pier by parents who have lost children. The display at Saltburn-by-the-Sea has been arranged as part of Baby Loss Awareness Week. Lottie King, who set up the Leo’s Neonatal charity to provide…
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Opening of Land of Iron in Skinningrove
Luke was invited by Land of Iron to the opening event for the new museum. The former Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum’s £2.3m new building was declared officially open by the Honourable Joanna Pease – direct descendant of the Pease family of industrialists who took ownership of the original mine in…
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Luke backs specialist education to keep children close to home
Today (19 September 2023), Cabinet Member for Children, Cllr Luke Myer, visited Rigwood House at Saltburn – home to Old Farm School’s second site at Rigwood Cottage, alongside the nearby Rigwood House residential provision. He met the team to discuss the council’s support for local specialist education to be expanded…
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Luke visits new Clean Energy Education Hub
Luke visited the new Clean Energy Education Hub at Redcar & Cleveland College this week. Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council worked in partnership with the College on the facility, which is developing new skills training routes to help local people get into the green jobs of the future. It has…
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Luke opens new Skelton Family Hub
Luke was delighted to open the new Family Hub at Skelton – which he helped to deliver as Cabinet Member for Children in Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council. The new centre will include services for children of all ages, from birth registration up to teenagers, working with the Youth Centre…
