James Cookson Morpeth, Northumberland SIR – Sir Keir Starmer might say he wants to rebuild trust in politics, but he has an odd way of showing this. There was little detail in the King’s ...

Cookson, a stove-manufacturer representative before becoming mayor, is one of two Worcester mayors to have died in office. James Blake, who became the city's 15th mayor in 1866, died in December ...

Northumberland Logs, founded in 2008 by James Cookson at his family's 3,800-acre Meldon Park Estate near Morpeth, processes waste timber from across Britain, with 90 per cent sourced locally in ...