Children from low-income backgrounds boosted their GCSE performance by up to three grades if they lived near a Sure Start centre, according to a new report. Economics research experts from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies revealed the findings after being commissioned by the Nuffield Foundation to look at the impact of Sure Start on …
Born in Sunderland and raised in Easington during the 1980s, Paul vividly remembers walking past the picket lines every day on his way to school. The same picket line was captured in the iconic photographs by Keith Pattison who documented the Miners’ Strike. Seeing Keith’s photographs years later inspired Paul to become a documentary photographer. …
There’s an intriguing sweepstake in Durham. Guess the right answer to what has become arguably the city’s greatest conundrum and you’ll be toasting your success with a year’s supply of beer. To win just name the date the Milburngate complex of riverside leisure units, offices and apartments will finally open. Worth a punt? Don’t break …
How might the Brontë sisters have sounded and behaved if they’d been equipped with a 21st Century mindset? Sarah Gordon’s award-winning play, premiered at the National Theatre in a co-production with Northern Stage, directed by the latter’s Natalie Ibu, takes that unspoken question and runs with it to hilarious effect. Thus you get Victorian women …
The Conservative Party faces complete annihilation in the North East in the next general election, according to one of the country’s leading political pollsters which delivers seat-by-seat analysis. It says the Tories could lose all their gains of 2019 in our region — and more. The most surprising seat to fall would be Hexham, says …
Is there one North East? Or are there many? There’s a tendency to talk about the North East as if every one of the 2.7 million of us experience it exactly the same. The North East needs X, we’ll confidently say, it wants Y. Reality is, of course, much different and quality of life and …
When we meet our handsome hero Richard Hanney (Tom Bryne), he’s restless and looking for adventure. And in a classic case of ‘be careful what you wish for’, that’s exactly what he gets when glamorous stranger Annabella (Safeena Ladha) is murdered in his London flat. Annabella happens to be a spy on the run (what …
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