Last orders could be all too real and permanent for pubs in the coming years, fears an expert in the field. Now Professor Ignazio Cabras, who is head of the accounting and financial management department at Northumbria University’s Newcastle Business School, has organised a public event which will examine what the future holds for the …
We’ve all had one, and it has had a powerful influence on our later lives. For many, it has left a mix of good, and perhaps not so good, memories. It’s childhood, and that is the subject of the summer exhibition at Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery in Alnwick. The volunteer-run museum has delved into its …
A survey of peatland, the equivalent of 12,355 football pitches, has now been completed in Northumberland. Peat up to a depth of 10 metres has been discovered in the study. The Northumberland Peat Partnership (NPP) is a collaborative effort that aims to survey, manage and restore degraded peatlands in the county. Since being set up …
No TV, no radio, and for the most part, no cinema. So what did folk do for a night out in 19th century Newcastle? A team of 35 volunteers has come up with thousands of answers as they researched what was on offer at the now Grade I-listed Tyne Theatre & Opera House on Westgate …
Sensors which measure how landscapes “breathe” are set to deliver a low cost solution to the monitoring of carbon emissions from vast swathes of peatland. Dr Paul Mann and his team from Northumbria University will work to develop a sensor system which can operate from remote areas to measure carbon dioxide and methane emissions from …
With a land area of 2,936 sq kms and 4,400 kms of waterways, Dr Ceri Gibson’s patch is sizeable to say the least. The Tyne Rivers Trust environmental charity, of which she is chief executive, oversees the North and South Tyne, and their tributaries the rivers Rede, Allen, Nent, and the Tarset Burn. Then there …
Hands up everybody who watched the film Zulu for the umpteenth time on TV over Easter. If it’s Easter, it must be Zulu, and the same goes for Christmas as the 1964 movie, which made a young Michael Caine’s name is aired again. Caine took the part of Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead, second in command to …
At four miles long and a 15-minute journey time, it was hardly full steam ahead on what was one of Northumberland’s smallest railway lines. The link from Seahouses to North Sunderland and then Chathill on the main line of the North Eastern Railway between Morpeth and Berwick, was always cash-strapped. The privately-financed track opened in …
The line in the hymn and anthem Jerusalem, celebrating England’s green and pleasant land, could apply to much of Northumberland. But there is one shade of lurid green which is not so welcome and is causing serious problems for one of the most valued areas of the county’s landscape. Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve (NNR) covers …
Funding has been awarded for emergency works to arson-damaged North East listed buildings which have a special place in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in England. Last July the Ushaw Historic House, Chapels & Gardens site near Durham was the target of an arson attack, with significant damage to the east wing of the Grade …
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