North East rock icons Mark Knopfler and Brian Johnson team up with the regionโs 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 hadnโt been a Boris โGet Brexit Doneโ landslide then Penny Grennan might have become Hexhamโs 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 …
Itโs not every day you peer at a painting and find yourself in it (and I donโt mean your reflection in the glass). Thatโs exactly what happened to me during a recce of Emma Hollidayโs studio at 36 Lime Street, although I canโt guarantee itโll be the same for others attending Ouseburn Open Studios this …
North East leaders of Englandโs 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, youโll gather, is no ordinary theatrical offering from Hexham-based Thรฉรขtre sans Frontiรจres (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 donโt see myself as a particularly adventurous traveller. Iโve only ever been to European countries (and North America), didnโt 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 โ the …
โFuneral van drops coffinโ. Even today, the rather sobering headline still beggars belief. But it happened. And I was there. Almost. Back in the day โ when there was barely room to move in the newsroom, 10 reporters were chasing every story and exclusives were like gold dust โ it was difficult to make your …
Long before Rishi Sunakโs controversial โEat Out to Help Outโ 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 cityโs restaurants at otherwise quiet times of the year. In spite of a cost-of-living crisis, rampant …
โHaving listened to representations I have decided now is not the time to abolish the Household Support Fundโฆ we will therefore continue it at current levels for another six months,โ proclaimed the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, in his budget statement. Cue relief from those making such representations โ 90 Parliamentarians from across the political divide, local …
I canโt remember my dad not having a beard. But I know he didnโt 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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