Teenage speed king Will Crewdson is chasing down Northumberland’s most successful motor racing export after clinching a career-changing £40,000 scholarship. The Corbridge driver has Morpeth’s Le Mans star Rob Bell in his sights after beating 29 rivals from across the UK to the prestigious Junior Saloon Car Championship (JSCC) prize. But 17-year-old Will insists his …
So far in this series, we’ve been to 1985 with Fats Domino; caught up with Tina Turner in 1983; and been to Paris with Wham! in 1986(ish) as I continue to work my way through the (unfinished) list of 40 memorable moments I started with my Dad (and director of The Tube) Geoff Wonfor to …
It was during the Miners’ Strike of 1984 that the paths of filmmaker Ken Loach and pitman’s daughter Heather Wood crossed. Ken says: “We were filming in the colliery club in Easington where women had set up one of the many canteens that provided free meals for striking miners and their families.” Heather and her …
I’ve been writing about North East England’s tech sector for over a decade. In that time I’ve seen many narratives come and go, as the region has attempted to carve its credentials on the national stage. ‘We’re the fastest growing tech cluster outside of London,’ say some. Others will point at Sage PLC and Durham’s …
The work of a Californian astronomer inspired (and named) an exhibition in Northumberland — and now she’s made the transatlantic journey to see it. Noctalgia: Dark Skies Matter is currently on display at The Sill visitor centre on Hadrian’s Wall, having opened in December to mark the 10th anniversary of Northumberland Dark Sky Park. The …
Innovation, great value and sustainability are behind the growth of Lumo, the country’s newest and greenest train operator. The Newcastle-based company this week shared data detailing its economic contribution and emissions saved by its all-electric service which operates between Edinburgh and London with stops at Morpeth, Newcastle and Stevenage — a service that could be …
The launch of The QT’s series Do We Care? on the crisis in the social care system has provoked a strong reader reaction. Councils up and down the country are grappling with how they continue to look after some of our most vulnerable people but their efforts are being hamstrung by an overly centralised funding …
Ministers have been accused of shortchanging the North East after it emerged that the region is to receive just £73m out of a new £4.7bn funding allocation. In a series of government announcements on Monday, reallocating funds from the axed HS2 rail scheme, the North West received £1.5m, Yorkshire and Humberside £950m, and the Midlands …
A project designed to empower local communities in their quest to breathe new life into unused lidos has been hailed as a beacon of collaboration by its North East founder. Tyneside-based Michael Wood, Assistant Professor in Sport Management at Northumbria University, is one of the team working on the restoration of the outdoor pool at …
“It is often said that you can judge societies on how they treat the least well off and the weakest, and I think we have got to a point where we are doing, very, very badly as a country when we are unable to provide any level of sufficient care to those people who need …
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