Phil Watson was browsing Gumtree when he spotted the thing that would take over his life. “I wanted to find a football team that would let me play striker, even though I’d not played there since I was 12,” he says. Instead, Phil discovered flag football, a five-a-side non-contact version of American football. The local …
Poetry and healthcare — not an obvious alliance but one that has propelled a North East poet towards a new communications role with independent charity Healthwatch. Lewis Brown has been writing and performing poetry since his university days, appearing at festivals across the UK and overseas, including the Edinburgh Fringe and slams in the United …
A new exhibition exploring grief and the enduring bonds between loved ones when someone dies will open in Newcastle this week. Portraits with Purpose: Continuing Bonds is the result of a special collaboration between St Oswald’s Hospice in Newcastle, and artist Leanne Pearce. Working with bereaved and pre-bereaved families who have accessed the hospice’s support …
Wildlife experts have warned that this year’s poor weather is taking its toll on birds who usually find sanctuary on the Northumberland coast every spring to feed, roost and breed after travelling thousands of migratory miles The staff of Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve (LNNR), working in partnership with Northumberland Coast National Landscape Team, the National …
It’s the exhibition a lot of people have been waiting for and a first viewing suggests it won’t disappoint. Last time the National Gallery sent one of its great treasures to Tyneside, it was displayed in splendid isolation in the Viking Shopping Centre, in Jarrow. That was last summer, the painting was The Cornfield by …
KEMP SURVIVES: Newcastle City Council leader Nick Kemp has survived a challenge to his leadership of the ruling Labour group. Councillor Dan Greenhough, who has never held a Cabinet position and is part of the group with loyalties to previous leader Nick Forbes, narrowly lost a vote at last night’s AGM (Wed). It is the …
Two men were responsible for the lifelong love affair/affliction* which has been my relationship with a football club. The first was my dad. He would be left with his two children to look after each Saturday as my mother went out to a part-time job to supplement my father’s wage as a pitman. My father, …
A Tyneside expert has led the design of a major new exhibition on PoW captivity and Great Escapes during the Second World War. Peter Dixon, an Assistant Professor in architecture at Northumbria University, worked in collaboration with creative design studio, Field Design, to create the exhibition, at The National Archives in London. Great Escapes: Remarkable …
A leading North East advocate for people with neurological conditions has accused the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) of penalising unpaid carers who look after their loved ones and setting them up to fail. Carers from across the region are being forced to repay the government after breaking earning rules set by the DWP, …
Do you remember what you were doing or where you were on Thursday November 4, 2004? It was an important day in our region’s history — but it could have been an historic one. We were asked to vote on whether we wanted an elected North East Assembly. Scotland and Wales already had a devolved …
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