North East rock icons Mark Knopfler and Brian Johnson team up with the region’s latest local hero, Sam Fender, in a new documentary series airing this spring. Dire Straits star Mark and AC/DC frontman Brian are the faces of Sky Arts show Music Legends. And the second programme sees Brit award winner Sam take the …
It could all have been so different. If the 2019 General Election hadn’t been a Boris “Get Brexit Done” landslide then Penny Grennan might have become Hexham’s Labour MP. Right now she would be gearing herself up to defend the seat, fighting to persuade her party to solve problems which still keep her awake at …
It’s not every day you peer at a painting and find yourself in it (and I don’t mean your reflection in the glass). That’s exactly what happened to me during a recce of Emma Holliday’s studio at 36 Lime Street, although I can’t guarantee it’ll be the same for others attending Ouseburn Open Studios this …
North East leaders of England’s most prominent countryside charity have joined the clamour for the Leamside Line railway line to be re-opened. Andrew Thompson, chair of CPRE Durham and Richard Cowen, chair of CPRE North East say that as well as the economic benefits the 21-mile stretch of railway line would bring, there would be …
Dress appropriately for the weather and rough terrain, it states on the flyer. This, you’ll gather, is no ordinary theatrical offering from Hexham-based Théâtre sans Frontières (TsF). Not that this adventurous company, initiator of more than 50 productions since its inception, has ever dealt in the ordinary. Movement-based theatre shows performed in French, Spanish, German …
I don’t see myself as a particularly adventurous traveller. I’ve only ever been to European countries (and North America), didn’t have a gap year and am not one of the one in eight British people who has apparently seriously contemplated living abroad. However, I do see travel as representing freedom in a way — the …
‘Funeral van drops coffin’. Even today, the rather sobering headline still beggars belief. But it happened. And I was there. Almost. Back in the day — when there was barely room to move in the newsroom, 10 reporters were chasing every story and exclusives were like gold dust — it was difficult to make your …
Long before Rishi Sunak’s controversial ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme of summer 2020, Newcastle became the first UK city to introduce the concept of Restaurant Week back in 2011. The NE1 initiative was a way of supporting the city’s restaurants at otherwise quiet times of the year. In spite of a cost-of-living crisis, rampant …
“Having listened to representations I have decided now is not the time to abolish the Household Support Fund… we will therefore continue it at current levels for another six months,” proclaimed the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, in his budget statement. Cue relief from those making such representations — 90 Parliamentarians from across the political divide, local …
I can’t remember my dad not having a beard. But I know he didn’t have one for the first eight-or-so years of my life And I can also tell you the day he decided to grow one (well, not the actual date, but the happenings thereof). It was in 1983-ish and in his role as …
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