The QT

Thursday 12 December 2024
12/12/2024

Author name: Emma Chesworth

Cafe’s a place to blend and mend

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 …

Unlucky break has a Silver lining

A slip on the ski slopes proved to be a lucky break for Teesside engineer-turned-author Fiona Erskine. After a career spanning 30 years at the forefront of chemical engineering, Fiona decided to put pen to paper and create a jet-setting explosives expert — and that expert would be a woman. It took a skiing accident …

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