COUPLE HONOURED: A North Tyneside couple who raised more than £2m for cancer research have been made MBEs in the King’s Birthday Honours. Lynn Lucas, and her husband who is also called Lynn, were made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to charitable fundraising. Their son Christopher died in 2000 …
In the library of the Friends Meeting House in Middlesbrough, the whirr of sewing machines and conversation provide an ambient backdrop to a sunny Saturday morning. The sewing bees stitching and mending are just a handful of volunteers who have given their time to run the town’s very first Repair Cafe. It is the latest …
A mother who devoted her time to helping prisoners of war after losing two sons in separate conflicts has been honoured with a blue plaque at her former home. Helena Rosa Duncombe Shafto was made the first Honorary Freewoman of Durham in 1919 and later awarded the OBE in recognition of her work for good …
Big noise, star quality and exotic delights. That’s what I’m looking for when I open the programme for a new concert season. By those measures the 2024-2025 programme dropped by The Glasshouse this week promises to be spectacularly good — in fact it might be the best we’ve seen for many years. I can’t be …
Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves began the week speaking about deeper ties with the European Union, as Labour looked to set out how it would return the UK economy to stable growth. It’s an important topic for the North East, as international trade has defined much of the region’s economic geography, and its traditional industrial …
A North East college has received national acclaim for its efforts to combat sexism and misogyny among young people. Staff and students from Newcastle College were invited to speak to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Naga Munchetty about the approach they take to training. Poppy Redfearn, lead learning mentor on Newcastle College’s pastoral team, tuned into …
Social care often seems to be the forgotten sibling of the NHS. The UK clapped for NHS staff during the pandemic, which was truly deserved. But there was no applause for those at the front line of social care, the people providing care to some of the most vulnerable members of society living in residential …
James Kilty, who has died suddenly aged 54, served the Heaton community, and more widely Newcastle, as a barber for over 30 years. His barber shop at 41 Warton Terrace, just off Chillingham Road, dates back to 1937. Generations of families have been coming to this same shop for their haircut for over 85 years, …
North East band Bear Park say they are “beyond excited” to announce the release of their debut album… fittingly they’ve chosen Newcastle record shop Beyond Vinyl to exclusively sell the vinyl release. The eponymously-titled long-player has been in the offing since the band: Shay Bagnall, Guy Robson and Adam Marshall — who featured in The …
For ladies and girls in polite society in centuries past, it paid to be nimble with a needle. Watch a film or TV dramatisation of, say, Jane Austen and in the background will be ladies quietly stitching and embroidering as part of their daily routine. For younger middle and upper class girls, demonstrating their needle …
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