As a Glaswegian transplanted to the North East, the path to feeling truly at home was less a matter of geography and more one of community and connection. The Newcastle Eagles Basketball Club has been my guide, my welcome party and, in many ways, my educator in this vibrant, passionate part of England. Through the …
A celebrity-packed fundraising ball organised to raise money to find a cure for a rare genetic condition will be held on Tyneside later this year. Acting couple Laura Norton and Mark Jordon — who have two young children with Usher Syndrome, which affects both hearing and vision — organised the inaugural event in Manchester last …
There’s an urban myth about a star solo violinist asked to stand-in at the last minute for an unwell colleague, who only discovers the concerto he is playing is Mendelssohn not Mozart after the lights go down and the orchestra strikes up the opening note. This is a musician’s in-joke based on the fact that, …
It will soon be a bright and early start every day at a Northumberland estuary for wildlife volunteer Hilary Brooker-Carey. As it has been for the last 27 years. From 6am-7am mid-May to the end of July, Hilary will be observing and recording eider ducks in the River Coquet estuary. The eiders nest on Coquet …
A double boost is on the way for the North East’s mining heritage. A sculpture of George Stephenson’s miner’s safety lamp is to be unveiled near Dial Cottage, his former home in North Tyneside. Meanwhile work is due to start on improving Albany Park, as part of wider £4.6m regeneration plans for Washington’s F-Pit Museum …
The prevalence of drugs in society is never far from the headlines. But for Duchess of Northumberland, Jane Percy, securing coca seeds — known for its psychoactive alkaloid cocaine — has proved more difficult than she was anticipating. Having received special approval from the British Government to grow some of nature’s deadliest plants within The …
One morning lately we boarded a London train (‘Daytripper yeah…’) and were advised over the PA to get our tickets ready for inspection. This sometime pedant knew this was impossible. We should have been asked to produce our mobiles and find an image on a screen. There was no ticket, no ‘it’— and I wondered …
With longer days in prospect and clement weather surely on its way, National Trust properties in the North East are opening for the season like the crocuses and daffodils (although at Wallington this year, the former were reportedly three weeks early). Cherryburn, birthplace of wood engraver Thomas Bewick, is the next to open, on March …
Tucked away on a modest plot at Newburn Riverside, D’Addario’s unassuming European base remains one of the North East business community’s best kept secrets. It’s from the US firm’s busy Tyneside hub that everyone from Sam Fender to Mark Knopfler sources tried and tested equipment that’s been trusted for half a century. D’Addario supplies and …
How do you get what you want? You ask for it. It’s time that as a region we got better at that, and doing it in a unified way. This is, afterall, the region which gave the world the phrase ‘Shy Bairns Get Nowt’. We ought to be better at asking for things and making …
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