Another lostin shake-up.

THE political map in the North East is alsochanging because of boundary changes.The shake-up will see Tyne and Wear lose a Parliamentary seat and could make some other constituencies more marginal for L a b o u r.Nick Brown, MP for Newcastle East and Wallsend, had a majority of 7,565 at the 2005 General Election but Wallsend will move into neighbouring Tyneside North and Jesmond comes into Mr Brown''s constituency.

And that could make the seat more vul-nerable at the General Election, with the LiberalDemocrats hoping to mount a strong challenge.

It is the same story in Newcastle North,where retiring Labour MP Doug Henderson hasa majority of just over 7,000 last time.Tyne Bridge MP David Clelland will fight thenew Gateshead seat, while a shake-up will alsochange the political map on Wearside. The Tories have high hopes for the newconstituency of Sunderland Central becausethey already control five of the nine councilwards that make up the seat.Sharon Hodgson will fight the new seat of Washington and Sunderland West for Labour.

And Bridget Phillipson, who is in her 20s, could become one of Britain's youngest MPs after winning the fight to become Labour's candidate for the new Houghton and Sunderland South seat.The seat was created out of Fraser Kemp's Houghton and Washington East constituency, plus part of Chris Mullin''s Sunderland South constituency. It is expected to be one of the safest Labour seats in England.