You’ve heard the phrase before. A term used to describe the unwavering dedication of a football fan: ‘Newcastle is their middle name’. In the case of Jamie Boyle — lead singer of The K’s — this is precisely the case. Jamie Newcastle Boyle has had the kind of year most musicians can only dream of: …
Bruce Springsteen always could read a room, or in Wednesday night’s case, a soaked football stadium. The near-50,000 crowd at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light had waited patiently for the man they call The Boss and his E Street Band in the kind of mizzling rain that drenches on impact. Having noted the conditions, he opened …
Months of hard work and fraught fundraising will come to fruition this weekend as Whitley Bay Carnival hits the streets of the coastal town once more. Now in its 11th year, the two-day event has been in the works across schools and community groups, with more than 2,000 locals involved in bringing one of the …
Work is underway on a £500m project aimed at promoting ‘new ways of living’ in Newcastle in a bid to transform the west end of the city Ground was broken on Newcastle University’s Health Innovation Neighbourhood earlier this week on the former General Hospital site, with the new facility focused on ‘living well’. The 10-year …
It’s almost 13 years since Sir Andrew Dilnot’s government-backed commission proposed a cap on social care costs in an effort to minimise the risk and uncertainty that surrounds the sector. At the time, in July 2011, the ambitious proposal’s £1.7bn price tag raised eyebrows among David Cameron’s coalition government after the former director of the Institute for …
Sewer robots and a new AI approach designed to improve the health of our rivers and seas are just some of the projects set to benefit from £10 million worth of funding secured by Northumbrian Water. Pipebot Patrol will see the development of a sewer robot that will crawl through miles of sewers to inspect …
A North East-based carer has claimed many of those being controversially asked to return Carer’s Allowance overpayments to the authorities are “paying for the government’s mistakes”. In a week when the BBC shone a light on the impact the Department for Work and Pensions’ retrieval methods are having up and down the country, unpaid carers …
While the Northern Lights have been all the rage across the North East since their spectacular appearance last weekend, stargazing experts are pointing to another rare sight that’s set to decorate our skies this summer. Night shining clouds are an ethereal phenomena; noctilucent clouds that exist in Earth’s upper atmosphere that become visible from mid-May …
Blyth Valley MP Ian Levy says Northumberland can look forward to a ‘prosperous’ future following the news that a world-leading wind turbine testing facility is to be built in the county. The £86m investment was announced earlier this week by Science, Innovation and Research Minister, Andrew Griffith, with the new facility equipped to test 150m …
A research team led by Northumbria University has received funding to investigate the future use of artificial intelligence in law enforcement. The four-year project has secured £3.4 million from Responsible AI UK as part of a wider £31 million programme. The scheme, titled Probable Futures — Probabilistic AI Systems in Law Enforcement Futures, will be …
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