Unusually for early June in the North East of England, it was a balmy, blue sky, summer’s day. If I hadn’t been already, I was feeling the heat. The blazing sun was starting to poke through the gaps in my helmet’s visor and, beneath the rim, sweat was pouring off my forehead, down my nose …
“We had some people being a bit sceptical about whether our film would translate internationally… so it’s quite ironic that it’s getting its premiere in New Zealand!” North East film-maker Toby Robson is talking about his feature documentary, Poised, which gets its first official showing this week at Doc Edge — the Academy Award-qualifying festival …
What is Construction Alliance Northeast (CAN) and what does it do? CAN represents the members of Northern Counties Builders Federation (NCBF), Federation of Master Builders (FMB), National Federation of Builders (NFB) and Civil Engineers Contractors Association (CECA). We lobby the Government, MPs, local authorities and other procurement organisations, to remind them of the wider benefits …
Think of something that defines the North East, and your first thought — other than The QT, of course — may well be the ever-ubiquitous Greggs. From its first shop in Gosforth, the bakery business has expanded to over 2,400 UK locations, with a target of at least 3,000. Newcastle city centre alone has a …
The last words of the great painter JMW Turner were — apparently — ‘the Sun is God’, which was also the title of a major exhibition of his works last year. Northumberland photographer Roger Clegg, and many of the throng who gather at Stonehenge for the summer solstice, would agree. Roger has been rising well …
Sometimes in life you get the opportunity to do what millionaires do after breakfast; in our case when we had finished the reconstruction of the top floor of the Tyneside Irish Centre after the Late Shows, it was obvious that we had the potential to do something we’d always wanted to do and have a …
Hannah Perry’s exhibition on Baltic’s level 4 offers a very different experience to the one it has replaced, Michael Rakowitz’s display of greenery with its garden centre planters under natural light. Machine-like structures and neon strips are there now, the latter framing a giant screen and flashing in accordance with the computer programme that governs …
It’s an awkward acronym and an almost unpronounceable brand name but everything else about SQCDP is seamless, smooth and incredibly smart. The brainchild of Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell, it’s the modern-day solution to freeing the factory floor from administrative clutter and providing instant, usable data. And the intuitive app removes the need for a hardware-derived and …
Wimbledon is almost upon us, heralding a timely return for a show that proved to be something of a ‘game, set and match’ for Newcastle’s little Alphabetti Theatre when it premiered there two summers ago. A re-match, given the enthusiastic response, always must have been on the cards for All White Everything But Me which …
The past 14 years of Conservative-led government have, in many ways, been a successful period for the UK’s universities. Student numbers have increased by 12 per cent to 2.9m. Real term income has grown by one third to £52bn. In the latest global ranking, there are four UK universities in the top 10 and 15 …
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