Tom Gordon

Nicola Medalova is set to become CEO of Yorkshire Water

Exclusive Yorkshire Water to end controversial off-shore payments with new CEO
The outgoing CEO Nicola Shaw was paid £660,000 in each of the last three financial years by Yorkshire Water’s off-shore parent company Kelda Holdings.

Harrogate MP Tom Gordon

Calls for broader investigation after rape and abuse claims at Army college

An artist's impression of the expanded Harrogate Spring Water plant.

Harrogate Spring Water to appeal refusal of bottling plant expansion

The A64 near the Hopgrove Roundabout, York, showing the single track road. PIC: Simon Hulme

Prioritise the dualling of the A64 - YP Letters

Harrogate's 'friendliest coffee house’ praised in the House of Commons

Tom Gordon MP says his constituents are livid about water pollution levels

PM "must take action" on Yorkshire Water, MP says

Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Tom Gordon and Jackie Snape. Credit: Tom Gordon

Yorkshire MP celebrates victorious disabled bus campaign

Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced that disabled bus pass holders will be able to travel for free at all hours from April next year. PIC: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Free all day bus travel for disabled passengers is to be welcomed

AFC is the largest military training establishment for under-18s in the UK

Calls grow for inquiry after reports of abuse and rape at military college

Yorkshire Water chief executive Nicola Shaw pictured at the company's Killingbeck site near Harrogate. PIC: Bruce Rollinson

Removal van needed for Yorkshire Water bosses - David Behrens

A stock picture of pupils at a school. PIC: David Jones/PA Wire

Children being held hostage to political fortune - Jayne Dowle

Yorkshire Water chief executive Nicola Shaw pictured at the company's Killingbeck site near Harrogate. PIC: Bruce Rollinson

MPs slam Yorkshire Water's 'litany of failure and mismanagement'

‘Entrepreneurial spirit’ of new Slingsby Gin owners praised in House of Commons

Tom Gordon at PMQs. Credit: Parliament

Yorkshire MP makes emotional admission about health condition in PMQs

Tom Gordon MP (Harrogate and Knaresborough, Liberal Democrat)

School transport debate: Warning over 'tax' on rural education

“Whether intentional or otherwise, it is gravely concerning that the Prime Minister misled the House,” said Harrogate and Knaresborough Liberal Democrat MP Tom Gordon. (Picture contributed)

MP urges swift appointment of chair for TEWV mental health inquiry

David and Helen Thomas in Oughtershaw, Upper Wharfedale, with their daughter Willow, seven, and son Ash, five.

MPs urged to join Parliament debate on Dales school transport policy

The Yorkshire flag flying over Malham. PIC: Marisa Cashill

Idea of ‘One Yorkshire’ has not gone away - Stewart Arnold

Forget Me Not star young person Hollie Shaw at Forget Me Not children's hospice Colour Run June 14th 2025 (photo credit Mike Robinson)

Hospice leaders deliver letter to PM with sector at 'breaking point'

Harrogate Spring Water has expansion plans

Harrogate bottling plant set for green light

Councillor John Mann.

New Reform councillor faces calls to stand down after switching allegiances
A North Yorkshire councillor is facing calls to stand down after switching political allegiances for the second time in four months.
Joe Willis

Harrogate Spring Water says its expansion would bring 50 new jobs and an annual £2.3 million boost to the local economy. (Picture contributed)

Government refuses to intervene in bottled water factory expansion controversy

Nicola Shaw, chief executive of Yorkshire Water.

'Do us a favour and go': MP calls for Yorkshire Water boss to resign

A gritter leads the way for a motorists driving carefully through the bitterly cold Hutton-le-Hole, in North Yorkshire, amid snow and ice. Picture: James Hardisty/Yorkshire Post

Council accused of 'reckless' school transport policy amid snow

Health Secretary Wes Streeting appearing before the Health and Social Care Committee. PIC: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Inquiry into NHS Foundation Trust is welcome - Tom Gordon

Tom Gordon MP.

Harrogate Spring Water factory: Government considers whether to call in

Liberal Democrat Rural Affairs spokesman Tim Farron chats to farmer Dan Marriner from Richmond, during his visit to Leyburn Auction Mart in July.

Liberal Democrats launch food security plan due to land use concerns

Harrogate Spring Water on Harlow Moor Road, Harrogate, pictured in 2017. PIC: Bruce Rollinson

Harrogate MP claims council has cash motive to give water site go-ahead

Children in a school classroom.

The SEND system is crumbling under pressure - YP Letters

Tom Gordon MP.

Home-to-school transport policy is 'leaving families in disarray'

Tom Gordon is the Liberal Democrat MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough.

Why we need region-wide autonomy - Tom Gordon

Professor Solomon Tesfaye, Alex McIntyre MP, Tom Gordon MP and Dr Jackie Elliott outside the Diabetes and Endocrine Centre at the Northern General Hospital

MPs praise Sheffield’s pioneering approach to diabetes care
MPs have described a pioneering one-stop diabetes screening service as the future of how diabetes care should be provided during a recent visit to the Northern General Hospital.
Claudia Blake

Tom Gordon at Knottingley Railway Station.

Working class people feel excluded from politics - Tom Gordon

By 2029, all 16- and 17-year-olds will have the right to vote in UK general elections.

The Government Cannot Restore Trust in our Democracy Without Electoral Reform

The ban, due to come into force on Friday, was announced by the company earlier this week after it said reservoir levels had not increased since January due to low rainfall. Pictured: Lindley Wood Reservoir

Customers "bearing the brunt of failure" amid hosepipe ban, MP says

Tom Gordon wants to see a compassionate, kind and fair provision of home to school transport

I have never lost sight of Yorkshire in Westminster - Tom Gordon

Campaigners and MPs launch the report at the Houses of Parliament. Credit: Kate Darkins

End cancer health inequalities that are leading to 'needless deaths'

Tom Gordon is MP for Knaresborough and Harrogate

It's time Yorkshire gets the dental service it deserves - Tom Gordon

Concept image of Harrogate College’s proposed main building. Photo: Harrogate College.

Yorkshire college's £22m rebuild gets approval despite parking concerns

The pebble beaches on the River Wharfe, Ilkley

Frequent EA testing to begin on Yorkshire wild swimming spots

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, centre, who proposed the private member's bill on assisted dying, meets campaigners after a parliamentary vote on the issue last November (Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images)

MPs fear assisted dying could become divisive election issue

Campaigners take part in a rally for the social care day of action at Parliament Square, Westminster. PIC: Lucy North/PA Wire

Councils forced to 'hike parking charges and fees to fund social care'

The Loan Charge and Taxpayer Fairness All Party Parliamentary Group, which is pushing for a resolution to the loan charge scandal, continues to grow. (Photo by John Walton/PA Wire)

'Evidence proves loan charge is causing unbearable distress'

Kim Leadbeater joins supporters in Parliament Square in London after hearing the result of the vote in parliament for her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

MPs propose major changes to assisted dying law

Nicola Shaw, Yorkshire Water’s CEO, received a performance bonus worth £371,000 and a salary and pension package worth £657,000.

Yorkshire Water CEO defends company’s decision to hand out bonuses

Parents have petitioned against the transport cuts

Council defends cuts to school transport across rural North Yorkshire

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater in her office in the Houses of Parliament, London; she is behind the private member's bill, The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Choice or coercion? MPs are split ahead of the assisted dying vote

Parents protest outside North Yorkshire Council in Northallerton over home-to-school transport cuts. Credit: Jo Foster

MP presents petition over 'unsafe' school transport cuts in Dales

Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Tom Gordon, says he will be opposing the Reserved Matters application submitted recently to North Yorkshire Council by Harrogate Spring Water. (Picture contributed)

A&E waits of 12-hours at this NHS trust have almost trebled in a year

Tom Gordon the Lib Dem Harrogate and Knaresborough MP. Credit: Tom Gordon

Meet the new Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Tom Gordon

Yorkshire Water to commence urgent repairs on major Doncaster road.

Yorkshire Water losing 21% in leaks before getting to customers' taps

Kevin Hollinrake's Thirsk and Malton constituency is the second worst affected in Yorkshire and the Humber by the Winter Fuel Payment cut. Credit: James Manning/PA Wire

Winter Fuel Payment cut set to hit Conservative constituencies hardest

Harrogate and Knaresboroogh MP Tom Gordon said the pay-off to the boss of Yorkshire Water, which is part of a more than £1 million pay packet, sends out the wrong signals. (Picture contributed)

Yorkshire Water permit breaches double in two years, FoI finds

Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey drawing a charcoal on pastel artwork at Harrogate College, in Harrogate, Yorkshire, while on the General Election campaign trail.

Lib Dems gain Harrogate and Knaresborough from Tories

Sir Ed Davey and the Lib Dem candidate for Harrogate, Tom Gordon

Ed Davey calls for River Nidd to be given special protection from sewage

'Harrogate Town needs investment. Our roads are crumbling and our active travel routes are fragmented.'

Concern over council spending on Gateway scheme - Yorkshire Post Letters

The Lib Dems could target Hull West and Hessle in the next general election

Liberal Democrats to target two Yorkshire seats in next general election

Wakefield Council Lib Dem leader Tom Gordon selected as Westminster candidate

Wakefield Council Lib Dem leader Tom Gordon selected as Westminster candidate

Kellingley Social Club

£6m community hub funding withdrawn over claims plan is a ‘shambles’

The Conservative group has proposed switching streetlights off in the early hours in a one-year trial.

Conservatives call for streetlights to be turned off after midnight to save cash

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