With expectations of a Labour election landslide growing by the day, thoughts inevitably turn to the question of who might be in the next government, and specifically for our region, which North East MPs might make the cut. The one obvious shoo-in for Cabinet rank is of course Bridget Phillipson, MP for Houghton and Sunderland …
For a good few years in the 2010s, the sight of a massive tent plonked between The Sage (as it was then, Glasshouse pedants) and Baltic meant one thing… lots and lots of laughs. The Jesterval comedy festival, which usually ran for around 10 days, brought a steady stream of top drawer stand ups to …
They became stars in their own right as their joyous faces beamed into our living rooms but what was it like for the fans wearing the specially-made, vibrating Newcastle United shirts? Ciaran is profoundly deaf. A pupil at Northern Counties School in Jesmond, he was pictured celebrating on national television as the goals flew in. …
From the early hours of Saturday morning, hundreds of dedicated music fans will form excited, chattering queues, snaking around the streets of Tyneside, in anticipation of this year’s most sought-after drop of limited edition vinyl. Come rain or shine, Record Store Day brings together serious collectors, late adopters, lifelong friends and excited families. It marks …
It’s 124 years since L Frank Baum’s children’s fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published, and eighty-five since MGM committed to celluloid the tale of a young farm girl whose life spins from monochrome to technicolor. Over those years, it’s safe to say that The Wizard of Oz has cemented its place in …
Writers and readers are alerted to the summer programme of New Writing North (NWN), that engine of literary enterprise that has worked wonders for all who take pleasure in words. From the humblest of beginnings, the Newcastle-based writing development agency has grown to embrace the North as defined from coast to coast, helping writers in …
The Mining Art Gallery has proved to be one of The Auckland Project’s most popular attractions since opening in 2017 with its nooks and crannies mimicking to some extent the confined nature of underground working. It has an extensive collection of poignant artworks relating to the coal mining industry, much of it the work of …
We’ve all had one, and it has had a powerful influence on our later lives. For many, it has left a mix of good, and perhaps not so good, memories. It’s childhood, and that is the subject of the summer exhibition at Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery in Alnwick. The volunteer-run museum has delved into its …
In the last two editions The QT has been putting the stalled Milburngate development in Durham under the microscope to see if we could detect any movement. Trying to unearth the truth about what the hold-up is at the £120m retail, leisure, office and accommodation complex was like pulling teeth. Not least because all sides …
A survey of peatland, the equivalent of 12,355 football pitches, has now been completed in Northumberland. Peat up to a depth of 10 metres has been discovered in the study. The Northumberland Peat Partnership (NPP) is a collaborative effort that aims to survey, manage and restore degraded peatlands in the county. Since being set up …
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