Bruce Springsteen always could read a room, or in Wednesday night’s case, a soaked football stadium. The near-50,000 crowd at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light had waited patiently for the man they call The Boss and his E Street Band in the kind of mizzling rain that drenches on impact. Having noted the conditions, he opened …
The North’s universities have been doing the maths on what effect government attempts to curb immigration is having on their bottom line and they warn it could be ‘catastrophic’. International students provide a lucrative income for UK universities but there’s been a dramatic fall in applications in recent months. Recent rule changes to cut down …
“What’s that, like?” I asked, bewildered. I’d just been invited to a dev meetup but I didn’t really know what that meant. Working late in the office one evening, around a decade or so ago, the digital platform I was writing for was having a series of technical difficulties. Staying late to fix the problem with …
A North East comedy producer has been selected for the BBC’s ‘supercharged’ bursary scheme. The BBC Comedy Collective’s 10-strong cohort for 2024 has been revealed at the corporation’s Comedy Festival, taking place this week in Glasgow. And Zahra Zomorrodian is among them. “I can’t begin to describe how excited I am to be part of …
Months of hard work and fraught fundraising will come to fruition this weekend as Whitley Bay Carnival hits the streets of the coastal town once more. Now in its 11th year, the two-day event has been in the works across schools and community groups, with more than 2,000 locals involved in bringing one of the …
Work is underway on a £500m project aimed at promoting ‘new ways of living’ in Newcastle in a bid to transform the west end of the city Ground was broken on Newcastle University’s Health Innovation Neighbourhood earlier this week on the former General Hospital site, with the new facility focused on ‘living well’. The 10-year …
There are broadly speaking two ways of looking at the Labour Party’s last period in government under first Tony Blair and then Gordon Brown between 1997 and 2010. The first view brings to mind Monty Python’s ‘what did the Romans ever do for us?’ sketch, later wonderfully parodied by the BBC in a promotional advert …
Tees Valley Artists of the Year unveiled Five artists have been announced as recipients of a new initiative designed to ‘drive forward the arts’ in the Tees Valley. Tees Valley Artists of the Year is run by Tees Valley Combined Authority and offers five artists a £30,000 investment — including a real living wage bursary …
“Did I set out to be an accountant when I was a kid,” asks Jon Dudgeon. It’s a rhetorical question and he doesn’t dwell on the answer. “Definitely not.” There’s a deep sense of irony at the heart of the warm laugh that fills the Blu Sky meeting room. And yet here he is, a …
Knickers and ready meals: That’s why my mother revered Marks & Spencer — or ‘Marks and Sparks’, as she and everyone else called their favourite store. Back in her day, when high streets thrived, M&S was king amongst UK retailers opening branches all over the world. It remains a giant today, but this weekend the …
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