North East England can combine its passion for innovation, its engineering expertise and its higher education ecosystem to drive ahead in the space sector. That’s the positive verdict of industry-leading experts who are encouraging the region’s business, manufacturing and education bosses to embrace the final frontier. Hot on the heels of last month’s North East …
What a week. For those of us who live and breathe or even closely observe politics, this is like Christmas and your birthday coming at once. Was it really just six weeks ago that Rishi Sunak kicked it all off with a moment that will surely be consigned to the history books? The rain poured …
David Stubbs doesn’t shirk the question when asked to put a challenging few years into perspective. “It’s difficult, because you’re starting from zero,” he says. “But I wasn’t naïve to this. I knew what I was taking on.” It’s easy to assume that David, a keen advocate for exercise as a means of bolstering mental …
Annual blast of brass to signal festival’s return Durham Brass Festival begins in traditionally rousing style tomorrow (Friday, July 5) with a gig in the cathedral featuring Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) and the NASUWT Riverside Band. The former, marking 40 years since the miners’ strike, will perform their hit album, Every Valley. It’s a sell-out …
Labour has said it is ready to make three major housing announcements within a fortnight of taking power. That was the exclusive claim from this week’s Sunday Times, which had decided to nail a red rosette to its mast for the first time in two decades. The newspaper says one of the announcements will be …
A Tyneside professor of international standing coupled his work with a passion for railways and locomotives. Dr Frederick William Hampson, known as ‘Bill’, lived in Heaton in Newcastle and worked for a number of the North East’s leading firms during his professional life. But he also spent much of his leisure time as a volunteer …
Just before you hit the steep incline of Tanners’ Bank heading away from North Shields Fish Quay, is a narrow lane leading into what looks like a random goods yard. With the popular Wheel House coffee shop on one corner and an electronics business on the other, few people probably give the compound shut-off behind …
BORN TO RUN: There was a Geordie fairytale finish to the Northumberland Plate at Newcastle racecourse at the weekend. Trainer Brian Ellison was born on Plate Day 72 years ago and it has always been his ambition to train the winner of the North East’s biggest horse race, also known as the Pitmen’s Derby. He …
Labour’s plans for housing as revealed to The Sunday Times reminds us how little housing policy we have seen in recent years. These proposals may stem from a genuine concern about homelessness, but they suggest a problematic approach to property markets. Homes are not free flowing commodities, where flooding the market drops the price. On …
During the UK general election campaign, we worked with colleagues to create a series of maps that show both how the climate has changed over the past two generations in each constituency, and how it will change over the next decade. You can look up the climate changes for your own constituency and see how …
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