{"id":17,"date":"2025-08-01T11:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tynemouth.news\/?p=17"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:20:54","slug":"our-elected-mayor-karen-clark-says-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tynemouth.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/our-elected-mayor-karen-clark-says-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Elected Mayor Karen Clark says Thank You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"368\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/tynemouth.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Thank-You-KC-1.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Clark\" class=\"wp-image-19\" style=\"width:162px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tynemouth.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Thank-You-KC-1.jpg 368w, https:\/\/tynemouth.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Thank-You-KC-1-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to thank all residents for your support during the Mayoral election, I am<br>incredibly thankful for the trust you have put in me, I will work relentlessly to deliver<br>for all residents of North Tyneside, to make our borough an even better place to live,<br>work and visit.<br>\u00a0<br>I will continue to build on the strong legacy of Dame Norma Redfearn. I want to finish the regeneration of North Shields and Whitley Bay and get on with regenerating<br>Wallsend and the North West. I want to see more affordable and social housing built.<br>I want to increase the number of jobs at a decent level of pay.<br>\u00a0<br>I will expand our skills provision and increase opportunities for our young people.<br>And I want to retain our libraries, parks and leisure centres. I want to see a clean,<br>green and safe borough, so we\u2019ll have teams out around the borough, tackling litter<br>and fly tipping, cleaning up graffiti and vandalism and working with the police and<br>housing teams to tackle this behaviour as well as other antisocial behaviour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to thank all residents for your support during the Mayoral election, I amincredibly thankful for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,6,9],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marden","category-mayor-karen-clark","category-preston","category-tynemouth","tag-mayorkaren"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - 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