James Morgan is staring out of his office at Benwell Hill CC wondering when — or if — the new cricket season will ever get underway. Heavy April showers have been a feature of the last three weeks and grounds staff across the North East have been grappling with one of the wettest springs, and …
Until recently, Jake Mather was one of many carers across South Tyneside that live in what he calls a ‘grey area’ — unpaid, unidentified but unswervingly dedicated to looking after close family members. His older brother Brett has Down’s Syndrome, while mother Gillian, also an unpaid carer, suffers from Multiple Sclerosis. For Jake — a …
The past few weeks have seen the puffins settling back into their Farne Island burrows off the Northumberland coast as they prepare for breeding season. Photographer Wil Cheung was eager to set foot back on Inner Farne after bird flu forced two years of having to capture its wonderful wildlife from the water. “It’s been …
In the last two editions The QT has been putting the stalled Milburngate development in Durham under the microscope to see if we could detect any movement. Trying to unearth the truth about what the hold-up is at the £120m retail, leisure, office and accommodation complex was like pulling teeth. Not least because all sides …
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 …
GREAT IDEA: The organiser of the Great North Run has formed a partnership with UK Athletics and London Marathon Events to grow athletics in the UK and bring major events to the country. The partnership will deliver the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham and the annual edition of the Diamond League in the UK. …
The chair of one of the UK’s biggest member organisations insists it’s time to modernise, publicise and prioritise after setting out a bold vision for the future. Liz Thackray arrived in the North East on Monday and will wrap up her first visit to the region with trips to Saltburn and Guisborough tomorrow [Friday April …
The Conservative Party faces complete annihilation in the North East in the next general election, according to one of the country’s leading political pollsters which delivers seat-by-seat analysis. It says the Tories could lose all their gains of 2019 in our region — and more. The most surprising seat to fall would be Hexham, says …
There’s an intriguing sweepstake in Durham. Guess the right answer to what has become arguably the city’s greatest conundrum and you’ll be toasting your success with a year’s supply of beer. To win just name the date the Milburngate complex of riverside leisure units, offices and apartments will finally open. Worth a punt? Don’t break …
An 80-year-old naval veteran from Prudhoe is continuing to fight for compensation following the findings of a review into the banning of homosexuality in the armed forces from 1967 to 2000. Vito Ward is one of thousands affected by a ban on LGBT+ military personnel — a policy described by the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, …
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