A campaigning Northumberland mother has won her latest fight to keep her daughter’s brutal killer behind bars. Doreen Soulsby, of Wall, near Hexham, has already endured four attempts by murderer Stephen Ling, now 48, to win parole after he was jailed for the murder of 29-year-old Joanne Tulip in 1998, and she has just learned …
A mother is calling for food standard regulations to be tightened after her daughter had an allergic reaction to ice cream following changes to the ingredients. Philippa Brock took her daughter, Mercy, to have eye drops administered and decided to reward her bravery with Jude’s vegan salted caramel mini-ice-cream. But the four-year-old from Newcastle had …
A big night is coming up at The Glasshouse for RNS Moves, the inclusive ensemble for disabled and non-disabled orchestral musicians. Joining them in the smaller of the two concert halls will be much feted rising star Héloïse Werner (Paris-born, London-based) who is both soprano and composer. Recently appointed an associate artist of London’s Wigmore …
Johnny Flynn — film, theatre, TV actor, composer and highly acclaimed musician — is to play at the Allen Valleys’ Folk Festival later this year. It’s an astonishing coup for the festival, which has been running for eleven years, and is based in the south Northumberland village of Allendale. His visit will be a poignant …
The UK government is consulting on plans to stop publishing vital statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on deaths of homeless people. This is part of a wider review of mortality statistics including deaths in care homes and winter mortality. Since 2018, the ONS in England and Wales and the National Records for …
Thomas Jackson is a full-time photographer who specialises in capturing live events. A former software developer for the NHS (‘photography is a lot more interesting!’), the County Durham-bred and now Gateshead-dwelling 42-year-old is the top man at Tynesight Media. Although he can’t remember the first photo he took for sure, there’s an old pack of …
There are many ways of documenting motherhood and while Katie Cuddon’s might not be the most conventional, it’s via a medium she understands and has loved since she was a child. She still treasures the clay animals she made in primary school, early signs of an artistic calling. Now here she is in the Hatton …
Financial investigators are on the tracks of global scammers using game-changing artificial intelligence to help recover the criminals’ billions in ill-gotten gains. Cobra AI has been launched by financial investigators IYE Global to jump the ‘choke point’ which challenges investigators when information stops being in the public domain. Developed with intelligence gathered over more than …
It’s the sort of window shopping experience that might have appealed to HG Wells or John Wyndham – a swathe of black sheeting visible behind posters teasing: “Imagine if we could grow buildings.” But this at 55 Westgate Road, the historic Newcastle building known as Assembly House – conventionally constructed from brick and stone in …
Billy Taylor’s off to Germany next week, playing in an emo band fronted by Thomas Nicholas — the actor best known for playing Kevin Myers in American Pie. Prior to that he recorded the guitar parts for the latest series of top-rated ITV show The Masked Singer. And later this year he’ll be hitting the …
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