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2 May 2024

Capturing the real Great Escapes

A Tyneside expert has led the design of a major new exhibition on PoW captivity and Great Escapes during the Second World War. Peter Dixon, an Assistant Professor in architecture at Northumbria University, worked in collaboration with creative design studio, Field Design, to create the exhibition, at The National Archives in London. Great Escapes: Remarkable …

A quiet revolution

As CEO of Gosforth Civic Theatre, I have often thought I should start a support group for introverted leaders of arts organisations.ย  I am quite shy; I am more comfortable loitering outside with the smokers or chatting with the technician and front-of-house team when I should be talking to the politicians or the other cultural …

Mourning the decline of the deaths column

Some people start reading their paper on the front page, others at the back for the sport. But I am one of those who has always turned first to the โ€˜matches, hatches and despatchesโ€™ announcements, with my focus progressing through the decades from the engagements and marriages of my contemporaries to the births of their …

Founderโ€™s departure prompts name change

GFW is the new name for one of the North Eastโ€™s leading property specialists after ambitious bosses insisted the time is right for a full brand refresh. George F White has provided property and business advice to the regionโ€™s residential, commercial, development and rural property sectors since 1979. And after a year thatโ€™s seen 17 …

Feeding at techโ€™s top table

Itโ€™s official, people: weโ€™re firmly in the tech calendarโ€™s busy season. Wonโ€™t someone please think of the writers incapable of resisting fancy award show puddings? This quarter saw the launch of UK Tech Week, while the North Eastโ€™s very own tech festival TechNExt will return in June. Before then, in May, the region will enjoy …

Shape of things to come

A new North East startup is aiming to revolutionise the way clothes are bought online while drastically reducing the amount of returns that currently inundate the sector. With the rise in returns reflecting badly on the balance books of some of fashionโ€™s biggest names, one Seaham entrepreneur has come up with the makings of a …

How Helix Arts makes lives better

Goodness only knows how many lives have been improved, however minutely, by Helix Arts during its 40-year history of working with artists and communities. The value of its work was acknowledged in December when the National Lottery Heritage Fund granted nearly ยฃ100,000 for an archive project called Re:Visits. Thereโ€™s a wealth of material to be …

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