Half a century has passed since the last shift clocked off at Elemore Colliery and emerged from the darkness into an uncertain future. Today, the landscape is very different. The grey spoil heaps have been replaced by vibrant, green countryside, with woods alive with birdsong — and the future is about to get even brighter. …
It hasn’t been easy but Stephen Lock is living his dream — a dream that took flight as a boy when he couldn’t wait for the shop to open so he could buy his favourite comics. Beano, Whizzer and Chips, Tiger, and Scorcher were the first to capture his young imagination, along with Monster Fun, …
Dozens of good causes across the region have received a cash injection thanks to donations and fundraising by Newcastle Building Society. The company published its community impact report earlier this month, which shows the total value raised was £893,810, including £357,296 directly from donations and fundraising. Newcastle Building Society has also worked in partnership with …
People searching for work in Northumberland are being paired with businesses looking to recruit thanks to a partnership designed to help jobseekers via training and support. The Northumberland Employment Partnership (NEP) is connecting employers with support and training providers in an effort to nurture opportunities for those seeking work in the county. New figures from …
It wasn’t the most auspicious of first meetings. Claire Thorburn — as she then was — was riding her horse across the fields between Seahouses and Bamburgh when she had the misfortune to meet the farmer who owned the land. He was none too happy with the schoolgirl he deemed to be trespassing on his …
If you have visited Auckland Castle over the past few years, there’s a good chance you’ll have peered over the wall at the gardens laid out on the slopes below. It’s a feature of this Walled Garden that the surrounding wall — or at least the one running along the top — doesn’t thwart prying …
Colleges across the North East are bucking the national trend as their apprenticeship programmes continue to flourish. While a report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) — which champions the causes of workers — claims the number of people starting apprenticeships has fallen up to 49 per cent in England since the …
Where Robert Stephenson and his workforce once designed and made steam locomotives, two artists have created vibrant, eye-catching murals. They were unveiled this month to mark the official opening of The Pattern Shop at the heart of the evolving Stephenson Quarter behind Newcastle Central Station. The Grade II listed building is where the renowned engineer …
Before International Women’s Day earlier this year, I wrote a piece for The QT addressing the lack of female representation in the North East’s high-growth tech sector. “It isn’t impossible to be a female tech founder in the North East but it is unusual,” was one of my many observations. In the article, I bemoaned …
Change isn’t something to be undertaken lightly at a place like the Bowes Museum which has had since 1892 to embed itself in the affections of a great many people. But times do change and even a museum, however subtly, has to move with them if it’s to reach new audiences and remain relevant. It’s …
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