Chris, Mike and Kate sit down to discuss the Conservative Party's surprise majority win in the General Election.

What will a Tory government mean for the North East?

All of this and more on A Week in the News

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Following the first televised Leaders Debate, Chris Scott sits down to discuss how David Cameron and Ed Miliband did and where it leaves the Tories and Labour heading into the General Election.

The team also look into the planned boundary changes to Newcastle and what that means for residents.

Mike gives an update on the North East manifesto before its publication next week and Kate discusses Labour's 'pink' bus - Is it demeaning to women or will it get more women to vote?

Labour leader Ed Miliband sat down with senior local government reporter Rachel Wearmouth to answer questions sent in by our North East readers.

Welcome to A Week in the News, a new podcast from The Chronicle & The Journal talking about the major news stories from the paper.

This week our host, Chris Scott - The Social Media Editor for both papers, is joined by Sophie Doughty - senior crime reporter for both papers, Rhian Lubin - The Daily Mirror, Mikey Reynolds - The Daily Record and Sophie Biddell - The Eastern Daily Press.

Topics discussed this week:

Casual sexism - Northumberland FA vice president John Cummings who was banned by the national FA in October over comments he allegedly made to Premier League referee Michael Oliver's fiancee. Why do we still put up with this type of abuse?

East Coast mainline rail route has been privatised - is this a good thing?

Black Friday - Is it even a thing or is it just one Americanism too far?

Welcome to A Week in the News, a new podcast from The Chronicle & The Journal talking about the major news stories from the paper.

This week our host, Chris Scott - The Social Media Editor for both papers, is joined by Abigail O'Leary and a Press Association threesome of Kathryn Riddell, Kieran Southern and Herbert Soden.

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Welcome to A Week in the News, a new podcast from The Chronicle & The Journal talking about the major news stories from the paper.

This week our host, Chris Scott - The Social Media Editor for both papers, is joined by Antonia Paget - The Daily Mirror, Michael Race - The Press Association, Mikey Reynolds - The Daily Record and Jemma Crew - The Press Association.

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