Nine o’clock on Tuesday morning at Newcastle Civic Centre and children from across the city are trooping in for a spot of opera to get the day off to a rousing and harmonious start. It’s not every morning that a six-year-old from Fenham has a date with a singer who has performed on the operatic …
The Shop on the Corner There’s been a corner shop at 101 Addycombe Terrace since around 1908, when the properties in the northern part of Heaton were built. Omer Hayat and his family recently retired from the shop after serving the community brilliantly for 29 years. New owners Phillipa and Manjil are now developing it, …
Wildlife reserves along a Northumberland bay will be boosted by a £750,000 cash injection. The award from Defra and the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Species Survival Fund will restore habitats, enhance biodiversity, and improve access on Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s reserves at Druridge Bay including Hauxley, West Chevington, and East Chevington. It is the latest leap …
SpoGomi is not a sport many in the UK will be familiar with but that hasn’t stopped two Sunderland brothers and one of their girlfriends bagging the UK and World Cup Championship trophies for picking up litter. Jonathan and Alex Winship first heard about the unusual sport from Alex’s girlfriend, Sarah Parry, who works as …
HISTORIC MOMENT: St Chad’s College in Durham was the historic setting for a historic moment as seven leaders from across the North East came together to sign the region’s devolution deal with Levelling Up Minister Jacob Young. With the deal signed, it ensures the area can hit the ground running when a new Mayor for …
“Life moves pretty fast,” Ferris Bueller, the title character from 1980s cult movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, reminds us. “If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Life has undoubtedly moved pretty fast in the North East in recent decades yet sometimes the changes are easy to overlook. …
For the past eight years, the Christmas mornings of thousands of children across the North East have been made immeasurably better thanks to Jason Cook. It was 2015 when the comedian and writer heard on the radio that 40,000 youngsters in the region would be waking up to no presents on Christmas Day. Partly fuelled …
The vice chairman of an impartial body charged with monitoring Durham Prison has called into question whether fresh government plans to reduce overcrowding can scratch the surface of a crisis threatening to cripple the UK’s justice system. The Independent Monitoring Board’s (IMB) annual report into the state of under-pressure HMP Durham — published today (March …
Urgent investment is needed to halt the declining number of duty solicitors and avoid miscarriages of justice, the Law Society of England and Wales has warned. Nick Emmerson, President of the Law Society, said: “Duty solicitor schemes are in crisis because governments continue to undervalue their work.” Since 2017, more than 1,400 duty solicitors have …
“You have to have it in your heart to want to do it because it’s not an easy job. You have to love and want to help your elders.” So says 18-year-old Ellie Cable, one of thousands of teenagers across the UK currently studying towards what they hope will be a rewarding career working in …
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