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Saturday 14 December 2024
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Review: Bruce Springsteen at the Stadium of Light

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 …

classroom of senior school pupils

Universities: a catastrophe waiting to happen

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 …

Developing a fascination for tech meetups

“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 …

Is she bovvered? Well, actually yes, she is…

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 …

Whitley Bay Carnival creates community vibe

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 …

Building a community for better living

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 …

Culture digest

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 …

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