DEPUTY NAMED: North East mayor Kim McGuinness has named Gateshead council leader Martin Gannon as her deputy. Gannon will step into the role of second in command on the new North East Combined Authority (NECA) having led Gateshead Council since 2016, and will make decisions in the mayor’s absence. A Labour councillor since 1984, Gannon …
Let’s not beat around the bush here — when it comes to loyalty and longevity, Darius Defoe is part of a dying breed. We may never see his like again. His legacy, his achievements and his contribution to the North East will live on long after he finally calls time on his decorated playing career. But …
An apprenticeship scheme with its roots on Tyneside is helping to shape the way women are represented in the construction sector. The Gateshead College initiative, PlanBEE, was launched a little over a decade ago, bringing together students looking for a route into architecture, engineering and building services with key players in the industry. Launched as …
This election is crying out for someone to talk about how we can change things in this country, rather than just talking about what needs changing. Whether it is Tory pledges to tackle ‘sick-note culture’ or cut taxes to ease the cost-of-living crisis, or Labour’s promises around childcare places or a publicly owned green-energy company, …
Every time another awareness week hits the headlines, it’s easy for us all to jump on social media and share the hashtags in the hope of enjoying increased online engagement and positive brand association. Without genuine effort or meaningful change to support these posts, they risk coming across as insincere and may fail to build …
It’s a genuine page turner. From the rebellious teenager to the cancer survivor who rose through the ranks to helm one of the world’s most beloved publishers, Mary Cannam’s life story is compelling. There’s the sliding doors moment at the job centre in Crook, County Durham, when a call out for booksellers suddenly caught her …
Dr Julia Cooper is pleased with this year’s potatoes, which grow in an allotment bordering her terraced house at Prudhoe in the Tyne Valley. They’re organic, as you’d expect — Dr Julia practises what she preaches. She and her husband Paul have next door ‘His & Her’ allotments. Are they competitive? “You bet,” she says. …
Newcastle’s venerable Lit & Phil library has been awarded £1m by the Barbour Foundation to help fund work necessary to secure its future. It’s one of the largest awards ever made to a single organisation by the foundation which was established in 1988 by its chairwoman, Dame Margaret Barbour. Dame Margaret, who also chairs the …
“I was on a walk and was passing a pub when I heard that unmistakable chink of metal and the slap of clay. “I thought, ‘No. It can’t be. It doesn’t exist in this part of the world’. “But, lo and behold, it was — and it does exist up here.” So recounts the author …
The cathedral, understandably, exerts a pull on visitors to Durham, drawing them up the hill in droves. But now the city has another attraction which perhaps tells its story more succinctly. Called The Story, it is the repository for more stories than it’s possible to quantify. Some of them — as I learned on a …
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