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 …
With a general election looming closer, ‘the high street’ is shaping up to be one of the battlegrounds, both nationally and here in the North East. After all, most of us regularly use city, town or suburban centres, and the state of those places — how they look, how safe they feel, how far they …
Boxing Day, 2008. Cool and blustery, it was a typical winter’s afternoon on Whitley Bay promenade, ideal for a festive stroll. Turning into Whitley Road, however, all was far from typical. In a cacophony of red, yellow and turquoise, a shop window was proclaiming its “Last 4 Days!” If a CD, babygrow or Christmas tree …
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