The long-awaited devolution deal in the North East — proper, real devolution with the money for transport until now held back — is finally here. The final count was delivered before the Bank Holiday weekend, way ahead of the rest of the country. As most people got on with enjoying their long weekends, I waited …
Four years after losing his mum suddenly when he was just 15, Ollie Maddigan started writing a play. “I always knew that I eventually wanted to process my feelings, experiences and grief by turning them into a theatre show. However, I think it was only when I was 19 that I thought enough time had …
Three young actors are feeling their way into the characters they’ll embody in The Bounds, a play set in Northumberland in 1553. This, according to Live Theatre, was ‘the true golden age of English football’, although its further assertion that ‘men will die today’ raises doubts about that. Ryan Nolan and Lauren Waine play Percy …
The last time Labour won Blackpool South, the party won 270 other constituencies. It was 1997 and Labour took 179 more than all other parties combined. Tony Blair walked down a flag-festooned Downing Street later that sunny May day. The debate about whether Britain is approaching a 1992 knife-edge election, where a surprisingly resilient Conservative …
A research team led by Northumbria University has received funding to investigate the future use of artificial intelligence in law enforcement. The four-year project has secured £3.4 million from Responsible AI UK as part of a wider £31 million programme. The scheme, titled Probable Futures — Probabilistic AI Systems in Law Enforcement Futures, will be …
Social media and some pockets of the press were awash with Islamophobic and racially charged comments about Sadiq Khan last week, holding him responsible for violent crimes in London in a way that no white Metropolitan Mayor or Police Commissioner faced during their election campaigns. Numerous journalists working for some of the most prominent news …
The eighth Newcastle Poetry Festival is upon us (May 9 to 11) with the action taking place at Northern Stage and the focus this year falling on the connection between poetry and history. As suggested by the title, In/Out of Place, attention will also be paid to feelings of displacement and belonging — and to …
I defy you not to be thrilled by Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. It is a defining icon of western music, an energetic, graceful and tactile masterpiece threaded through our cultural DNA. And this month you have not just one but three chances to hear it live in North East England: Royal Northern Sinfonia perform it …
A countryside body in the North has issued a warning in the wake of the local and Mayoral election results that traditional political allegiances can no longer be taken for granted. Henk Geertsema, Acting Regional Director at Country Land and Business Association North (CLA) said: “Rural communities feel unseen, they feel unheard, and for the …
Phil Watson was browsing Gumtree when he spotted the thing that would take over his life. “I wanted to find a football team that would let me play striker, even though I’d not played there since I was 12,” he says. Instead, Phil discovered flag football, a five-a-side non-contact version of American football. The local …
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