A by-election has been called after a Newcastle councillor stepped down for health reasons.
Stephen Sheraton, a Labour councillor in Byker, has resigned with immediate effect due to ill health, the city council has confirmed. He had sat on the council since May 2021, when he won the seat vacated after the death of long-serving councillor George Allison.
Voters in the Byker ward will go to the polls to select a new councillor in a by-election on Thursday, March 2.
