This time 24 years ago I was probably supping on a pint of pina colada, taking in the calming thrum of the steel drums and wondering whether it would be Andy Griffin or Aaron Hughes who’d be the first to conjure up a winning three-letter word (two was the norm) in the insanely competitive poolside …
It’s almost 13 years since Sir Andrew Dilnot’s government-backed commission proposed a cap on social care costs in an effort to minimise the risk and uncertainty that surrounds the sector. At the time, in July 2011, the ambitious proposal’s £1.7bn price tag raised eyebrows among David Cameron’s coalition government after the former director of the Institute for …
AIRPORT NOT FOR SALE: Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen has claimed Teesside International Airport is ‘not for sale’ in the face of growing interest. Businessman Michael Flacks said he was ‘engaged’ in talks to buy a 49 per cent stake in the publicly-owned site, with an airport spokesperson confirming the ‘expression of interest’. However, Mayor …
Prolific painter Linda Kay is never short of inspiration for her next artwork. Linda stores up ideas from her regular walks and cycle trips from memory, sketching or photographing what catches her attention. On her doorstep in Tynemouth, her garden also provides subjects for her painting. Now Linda will stage an exhibition of around 100 …
Author Glenda Young has turned to a town’s famous toffee factory as the setting for her new trilogy of novels which follow the lives of three women workers. Glenda has written eight books, all with central female characters, based on the County Durham mining village of Ryhope, now part of Sunderland, where she grew up. …
When Mary Butterwick was born, the drunk midwife, who delivered her, took one look and declared: “This one’s no good.” Blue and seemingly lifeless, with an umbilical cord wrapped around the baby’s neck, a life that was destined to be remarkable, might have ended at its beginning. Thankfully, Mary’s dad, James, heard his wife’s cries, …
On Monday, I was invited to give evidence on alcohol harm at the Health and Social Care Committee session on Prevention. I travelled down on the train to London from the North East and took the Tube over to Westminster from King’s Cross. Walking through the tunnels, I was struck by the scale of alcohol …
Simone Jimena Rudolphi grew up in Germany — her primary school years spent “on a hill overlooking Mayen, roaming the forests of the volcanic Eifel area”. Rheinhessen, the largest of Germany’s wine regions, was home during her adolescence, offering job opportunities during the grape harvest. The 55-year-old has spent more than 30 years in the …
More needs to be done to encourage and support female entrepreneurs in the North East, say business leaders, after new research showed the region is not matching the growth rate of women-led businesses being seen elsewhere in the country. A report by Finder revealed more than 150,000 new all-women-led companies were founded in the UK …
Sewer robots and a new AI approach designed to improve the health of our rivers and seas are just some of the projects set to benefit from £10 million worth of funding secured by Northumbrian Water. Pipebot Patrol will see the development of a sewer robot that will crawl through miles of sewers to inspect …
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