Newsnight s Nicholas Watt reports from tees valley. An icon of a vibrant industrial past, now out of action, symbolising an area struggling to find its feet. Tees valley, an infant hercules in its days as a World Capital of iron and steel making, is now clearing sites of past glories and looking for new ventures. A painful process with economic decline, alongside pockets of affluence. That has placed this area on the National Political map, and now a mayoral contest with high stakes for the two main parties. A Rumbustious Conservative mayor became the first poster boy of the redwall, after his narrow win here in 2017. Re elected in a landslide in 2021, ben houchen is now hoping to buck the national trend. A local labour stalwart hopes to win back what was once a heartland for his party a win for chris mcewan would ease keir starmer s path nationally. And the lib dem outsider placing the fight of Child Poverty at the heart of his campaign. Over the past decade or so, Tees Valley Felt ne
0ur wales correspondent has more. the 20 mile an hour limit came into force back in september and since then, there has been a huge public backlash, the biggest public backlash, the biggest public backlash against any welsh government policy since the senedd began. 400,000 people have signed an online petition calling for this 20 mile in our policy to be scrapped and it looks like the new transport minister who has been in post for just under a month now will kind of almost dojust that. just under a month now will kind of almost do just that. he says some roads possibly like this one may revert to its original speed limit. he did say as well that there was widespread support for a 20 mile an hour limit where there was a hospital, school or built up residential areas but if you look at this rate behind me, this is a dual carriageway which runs through the centre of cardiff, so there are no schools, hospitals, built up residential areas here, so this could feasibly be changed back to