Tees cosy… After last Eye’s special report showed fortunes handed to local businessmen by mayor Lord Houchen, enabling son of one to set up plant co and make 8 figure gains at uneconomical rates, who’s invited to his wedding bash…? See latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social

What you won’t read in the Sunday papers. @privateeyenews special report on Teesside, featuring -
- £100m’s to businessmen for no investment
- £10m’s in deals for friends and family
- Security deal for co with serious organised crime connections.
And much more. Still in shops.

Special report on the great Teesside giveaway in new @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Current @privateeyenews.bsky.social has latest on the financial idiocy on Lord Houchen’s patch - which has proved very useful to a couple of businessmen, less so the people of Teesside.

Bill for lawyers on Post Office scandal hits £350m, more than half to firm that helped fight against Alan Bates then cleaned up on redress scheme. More in @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Critical infrastructure update: 20 substations on Teesside sold to local businessmen for £10.91, as they’re gifted 45% stake in previously publicly-owned electricity network. Another bonanza on the Tees for the lucky few. Full details in @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Starmer and Miliband’s £22bn Net Zero carbon capture plan sending lots of zeroes into the bank accounts of UK’s luckiest businessmen, as they buy 12 acre plot that the Teesside part is being built on for £12.43 (plus VAT). Details in latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Latest mega-deal for businessmen on Teesside - the airport business park that they were said to be investing in but is now funded entirely by taxpayer - while they get 50% ownership. Full story in @privateeyenews.bsky.social

South Tees Development Corpn (chair: Ben Houchen) awards new £9m security across U.K.’s largest freeport to co whose management by man serving long sentence for drug crime @PrivateEyeNews had already exposed, and despite co lying about his role. Full story in the mag.

The great and the not so good: honours to heroes of the Post Office scandal and, er, the senior partner of the law firm helping to persecute them. Details in @PrivateEyeNews.

With third anniversary of Ukraine invasion approaching, @PrivateEyeNews continues its look at ineffectual sanctions policing - details in current mag still on sale -

As Lord Houchen’s Teesside International Airport files big 2023/24 losses, here’s how @PrivateEyeNews revealed back in August that the supposed “profit” then announced for the year was another of his porkie pies and would make Enron’s accountants blush -

@PrivateEyeNews rounds off a year of Post Office reporting with a look at the dire compensation schemes and the lawyers - still! - quibbling over claims. Less than 30% of expected redress paid out. Full story in the mag.

Tax dodging, porkie pies, fortunes from the ultra-wealthy of the former Soviet region… meet the Reform party’s new treasurer in @PrivateEyeNews