Olivia Blake

Sheffield MPs Olivia Blake, top, and Louise Haigh had previously urged the Solicitors Regulation Authority to suspend Andrew Milne.

Disgraced solicitor banned from real estate law 'for protection of the public'
A disgraced solicitor has been banned from pursuing Sheffield homeowners for up to £25,000 in connection with leases.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, right, and British ambassador to the United States Lord Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador's residence in Washington DC in February

Mandelson scandal 'really embarassing' for PM, Sheffield MP says

MPs have debated a call for driven grouse shooting to be banned.

‘Small section of urban Britain imposing views on rural areas’

Sadiq Khan at the 2024 Political Purpose Awards.

Sheffield Councillor recognised in national nature awards

Roundhay Parochial Hall, Fitzroy Drive, Roundhay, Leeds, one of the many Polling Station open for the Local Elections.

Neurodiverse election candidates fear discrimination

The scars of the Sheffield tree scandal are still felt

Battleground Yorkshire: Tree scandal still impacts trust in Sheffield

Battleground Yorkshire: Three-way battle for Sheffield Hallam

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a community project visit to Accrington Market Hall in Lancashire. PIC: Christopher Furlong/PA Wire

The Government must simplify the levelling up funding system - Olivia Blake

Lewis Dagnall, Labour Party candidate for Stannington ward by-election at Sheffield City Council

Call for Yorkshire Water to end sewage dumping into river

People take part during a protest in central London after the controversial Equinor Rosebank North Sea oil field was given the go-ahead. PIC: Lucy North/PA Wire

Tackling the climate crisis shouldn't fuel poverty - Olivia Blake

There are concerns at least 41 hospital buildings, owned by 23 trust, are at risk of collapsing as they contain a lightweight building mater known as reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).

NHS hospitals forced to close wards due to RAAC concerns

Hundreds of demonstrators across Scotland and the UK are protesting against the planned development of the Rosebank oil and gas field. PIC: Greenpeace UK/PA Wire

The idea that Rosebank gives Britain energy security is false - Olivia Blake

Olivia Blake is the Labour MP for Sheffield, Hallam.

Cases of restraining children are going under radar: Olivia Blake

Olivia Blake raised the issue in a Commons debate

Woman injured after 15ft board fell on her head at Yorkshire school

The Climate and Ecology Bill introduced by Sheffield Hallam MP Olivia Blake is the way forward. PIC: Scott Merrylees

Bill points the way forward in tackling climate emergency - YP Letters

A person walks a dry bank of a tributary to the Dowry Reservoir close to Oldham, during last summer's heatwave in the UK. Picture date: Monday July 18, 2022. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Bill can help tackle climate change challenges - Olivia Blake

Hundreds of homes in and around Stannington, Sheffield, were left without gas for up to two weeks after pipes were flooded by a burst water main.

Stannington: Calls to resolve a 'litany of issues' months after gas flood

Cars pass along Ecclesall Road in Sheffield. Picture: Dean Atkins

Council's anti-car crackdown driving businesses to distraction: Bird Lovegod

Dore Primary School

Parent injured by cladding that flew off building at Yorkshire school

Olivia Blake MP

Yorkshire MP wins award for championing endangered hen harrier in Peak District

ACM cladding is the same type of cladding which was present on Grenfell Tower. Other types of cladding have also been found to be dangerous, including MCM cladding, which the government banned on all new buildings last year.

Sheffield MP claims cladding works are being delayed by labour shortages
Sheffield Hallam MP Olivia Blake has said that labour shortages are causing delays and price increases to the cladding remediation works needed on many residential tower blocks across the region.
Michael Crossland

Retained EU Law Bill which will see thousands of laws expire automatically after December 2023. PIC: NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Images

The Retained EU Law Bill sets out the wrong path - Olivia Blake

Tim Davie is director general of the BBC. PIC: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Northern voices should not be lost at the BBC - The Yorkshire Post says

Olivia Blake

Yorkshire MP urges BBC to broadcast more Northern voices

The gas supply for around 2,000 homes in the suburbs of Stannington and Hillsborough was cut off on Friday when a water pipe burst and leaked into the gas main.

People left without gas for a week in freezing temperatures remain ‘resilient’

'Habitats such as peatlands and woodlands are vital carbon sinks which capture and store CO2, preventing it from heating the atmosphere.'

Government plans for 'Investment Zones' could put nature at risk - Olivia Blake

Peatland.

Why MP is wrong on burning of heather on peatland - Yorkshire Post Letters

Peatland must be protected says Olivia Blake.

Why Yorkshire’s peatland needs protecting - Olivia Blake

Parliamentary portrait of Olivia Blake

Yorkshire MP resigns from shadow front bench citing 'personal reasons'

An off-shore wind farm in Withernsea. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Energy bills and green jobs need long-term solution - Olivia Blake

Refugees from Ukrainian wait for admission in front of the registration office for refugees inn Hamburg, Germany, Monday, March 14, 2022. Germany's Interior Ministry said Monday that it has so far registered 146,998 refugees from Ukraine coming to the country, but the real number may differ if people didn't register or moved on to another country. (Marcus Brandt/dpa via AP)

Cities like Sheffield want to do more for Ukraine – Olivia Blake

Olivia Blake, the Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam, said comments made to her as a child calling her lazy and disorganised “stick in my brain to this day and make me consider all my actions daily.”

Sheffield MP Olivia Blake discloses ADHD diagnosis in Westminster speech
A Sheffield MP has opened up about her diagnosis with ADHD, which she says was missed throughout her schooling.
Victoria Finan

Olivia Blake, MP for Sheffield Hallam

Pregnant woman forced to attend scans alone despite rule change, claims MP

Olivia Blake and Myleene Klass

MP Olivia Blake to star in powerful Myleene Klass miscarriage documentary

Frontline workers are credited with doing an amazing job during the pandemic

Key workers face rising prices and taxes and pay cuts - Ros Snowdon

Trees are beginning to change colour and leaves are starting to fall as autumn takes a hold on South Yorkshire.Looking over Langsett Reservoir. Picture: Scott Merrylees.

Tree extinction threat a worry to us all - The Yorkshire Post says

Olivia Blake MP. Picture: Scott Merrylees.

Wykeham tree nursery closure goes against climate science - Olivia Blake MP

The house councillors agreed could be turned into a HMO

Councillors in Yorkshire approve housing plan they ‘absolutely hate’

Baroness Judith Blake told her fellow peers that Yorkshire's biggest city could have achieved so much more in its response to the pandemic "if the necessary powers and resource had been devolved down to a local level". Pic Simon Hulme

Leeds 'stopped from reaching its true potential by over-centralised government'

The founders of the whoismycouncillor.co.uk websitein Sheffield said it wouldhelp voters who otherwise wouldhave to "hold out for an elusive knock on the door by canvassers.

A new website in Sheffield telling voters where local election candidates stand

Work taking place in December 2019 to clear the former Hepworth site, where the new housing development was intended to be located. Picture: Steve Ellis

Decision on Loxley valley township plans 'will reverberate for years to come'

Edale, Hope Valley, Peak District, Derbyshire, Feature. Pictured The winding roads from Edale Valley leading up towards Mam Tor, Derbyshire. Pic by James Hardisty

Criminalising trespass could deter people from our precious countryside, says MP

File photo dated 10/11/2020 of Baroness Dido Harding, Executive Chair of NHS Test and Trace, in Westminster, London. Pic: PA

Taxpayers 'treated like an ATM machine' over £22bn NHS Test and Trace scheme

Sand bags placed against a door of a property in Hebden Bridge in the Upper Calder Valley in West Yorkshire, in anticipation of Storm Christoph last month. Photo: PA

'Next major scandal brewing' in Government's flood protection plans, MPs warn

The Commons Public Accounts Committee praised the "world-beating" effort to get the jab to the most vulnerable, but warned it was essential not to lose momentum. Pic: PA

'Ministers must communicate better to keep public support on Covid vaccines''

Sheffield Hallam MP Olivia Blake. Photo: Submitted

Sheffield MP calls for a ban on moorland burning

Olivia Blake, MP for Sheffield Hallam

Yorkshire MP tells of 'very difficult' miscarriage during pandemic

Boris Johnson stands accused of betraying British farmers.

Here’s how rural areas are being neglected – Tom Richmond

Olivia Blake was Deputy Leader of Sheffield City Council and is now MP for Sheffield Hallam.

Sheffield MP Olivia Blake ‘repeats apology’ for council’s tree-felling failures

Sheffield Hallam MP Olivia Blake. Photo: PA

Sheffield MP leaves junior party role to vote against controversial Bill

Hallam Cricket Club

Plan to build 15m-high fence at one of Yorkshire's oldest cricket grounds

People of Black, Caribbean and South Asian ethnicity in the UK had between 10 and 50 per centhigher risk of death from coronavirus, a report last month found

Calls for NHS fees for migrants to be scrapped during Covid-19 pandemic

Work taking place last December to clear the former Hepworth site, where the new housing development is planned. Picture: Steve Ellis

National Park 'not consulted' over controversial township plan for valley

Former Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell. Photo: PA

John McDonnell: We cannot go back to austerity after coronavirus, we need a 'new...

New Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, and a selection of Yorkshire Labour MPs. Photo: PA/JPI Media

Time to put aside Labour divisions, Yorkshire MPs say, as they back Keir Starmer...

A different voting system would have cut Boris Johnson's majority. Pic: PA

A third of us voted for the 'lesser evil' at the last general election

Sheffield Hallam Labour MP Olivia Blake. Photo: Olivia Blake

'Jared O'Mara had his faults, but he highlighted crucial issues,' says new MP fo...

Sheffield Hallam MP, Labour's Olivia Blake. Photo: Labour Party

Olivia Blake: 'I couldn't have won Sheffield Hallam without Jeremy Corbyn'

Yorkshire's new MPs.

Who are Yorkshire's 10 new MPs?

Jared O'Mara ousted former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in 2017

Absentee Sheffield Hallam MP Jared O'Mara won't stand for re-election

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