A keen advocate for nurturing the scientists of the future and an engaging flag bearer for the North East Technology Park (NETPark) cluster, it’s fair to say Dr Fozia Saleem surprised family and friends when she upped sticks and left London for a new challenge. But one of the leading lights of the biomedical sector …
Men’s pie clubs have proven quite the recipe for success since the first one opened its doors in Byker, Newcastle six years ago. Their number has grown to 16 with further expansion planned across the region. The latest club in Sunderland is already full up and, like most of the others, has a waiting list …
While the perception is that the world has gone digital, that each of us has our faces buried in a device most of the time, the reality is different, particularly in the North East. International consultancy Deloitte has just published a report highlighting the digital poverty gap and this region is the worst in the …
Ross Millard, 41 is a guitarist and songwriter in The Futureheads, a printmaker and a photographer. He’s also puts together the Summer Streets festival in his native Sunderland. An upcoming exhibition of his photographs at community cultural venue, Pop Recs Ltd got our attention, so we thought we’d ask Ross if he’d be so kind …
I’ve never been good with heights. As a six-year-old (maybe seven or even eight?) I remember standing at the top of the slide at the leisure pool in Whitley Bay (Gen Z might know it as Waves), frozen to the spot and clinging onto my younger brother, all the while wailing for my mam. Kids …
We’re smack in the middle of National Stottie Cake Week, February 12 to 18, as I write this. It’s also Shrove Tuesday – or pancake day – so quite a moment for comfort food. It’s also quite a moment for Andy Haddon, driving force behind Newcastle’s Big River Bakery and this special week for a …
It can be an instinctive response in a time of crisis to pick up the phone and dial 999. However a new initiative launched in partnership by Northumbria Police and the mental health charity Everyturn aims to make sure that when that crisis involves a person’s mental health it is dealt with in the most …
The French Connection has delivered news of a Northumberland osprey in its wintering grounds in Senegal in Africa more than 3,000 miles from the Kielder Forest nest where the bird hatched. French ornithologist Jean-Marie Dupart was surveying ospreys in the Saloum Delta national park, which has many miles of unspoilt waterways. He came across and …
Businesses are being warned to start taking the menopause seriously or risk losing more talented staff from their workforce. Sharon MacArthur is a 56-year-old menopausal woman from Whitley Bay who works across every business sector to deliver menopause training and education. “Senior leadership in businesses need to understand health isn’t about putting a bunch of …
Gateshead, as explained in Part One of our report, was initially intended by the Boundary Commission for England to be a self-contained sub-region with two constituencies. Instead it was sacrificed to avoid what the Commission saw as serious knock-on disruption in the neighbouring areas of Jarrow, Sunderland and County Durham. Gateshead’s two current seats (Gateshead …
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