STEPPING DOWN: Helen Golightly has announced she is stepping down as chief executive of the North East Local Enterprise Partnership. Helen, who has been with the LEP for 12 years and in the top job for nine, said she wants to spend time with family and travelling. She said: “I am immensely proud of the …
An exciting prospect has emerged for theatre audiences – anyone who likes a laughter-filled night out, in fact – and especially North East actresses who fancy a long tour in a home-grown hit show. That was the prospect laid out at the Theatre Royal by chief executive Marianne Locatori, top commercial producer David Pugh and …
As a kid, growing up as a copper’s son in a working class suburb of Tyneside, Stuart Brayson was immersed in the industrial heritage of the North East. “The pits had closed but we were still in the shadow of the mining way of life, and we lived close enough to the railway track to …
The shipyards of the North East were a vital front line in the First World War as they battled to replace the heavy losses caused by U-boats of vessels carrying crucial supplies. But with so many shipyard workers fighting in the armed forces, women stepped forward to fill the gaps and tackle the many jobs …
Julie Hesmondhalgh – and the name, she advises, is pronounced ‘Hesmondhalsh’ – was stopped in her tracks recently. Somebody asked her about Coronation Street. The actress appeared in the ITV soap opera for 16 years, playing Hayley Cropper, the first transgender character in any British ‘soap’. So despite having bade farewell to the role a …
The driving forces behind hit Netflix show Sunderland ‘Til I Die have renewed calls for the investment the North East requires to become an international movie hub. Plans were submitted in November to develop state-of-the-art film studios on the site of the Crown Works, in Pallion, on the banks of the Wear. And Fulwell 73, …
I heard running water before I saw it. The rain seeps from the peat drop by drop. A dribble here, a trickle there, a sike becomes a runnel or perhaps a rill and the decibels grow as the full-blown stream I cannot see bounces over rocks and boulders. A paradox this land of water: not …
One of my favourite paragraphs in last week’s QT was in the interview I did with Alison Gwynn. North East Screen’s chief exec was remembering her teenage years at The Tube. A 15-year-old Alison was a regular down at Studio Five on Friday teatimes in the early 80s when Tyne Tees Television on Newcastle’s City …
As the race for the regional mayoralties in Tees Valley and the North East hots up, it would be easy to forget the very existence of the 12 local councils that will continue to sit alongside them. It’s a paradox that while so much political energy is being invested in new regional tiers of governance, …
North East councils are wrestling with the problem of how to balance their books and are being forced to make agonising decisions on who they will have to let down next. These tough calls are being forced on them, and other councils up and down the country, by a system which sees the Government control …
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