Ministers have been accused of shortchanging the North East after it emerged that the region is to receive just £73m out of a new £4.7bn funding allocation. In a series of government announcements on Monday, reallocating funds from the axed HS2 rail scheme, the North West received £1.5m, Yorkshire and Humberside £950m, and the Midlands …
The launch of The QT’s series Do We Care? on the crisis in the social care system has provoked a strong reader reaction. Councils up and down the country are grappling with how they continue to look after some of our most vulnerable people but their efforts are being hamstrung by an overly centralised funding …
“It is often said that you can judge societies on how they treat the least well off and the weakest, and I think we have got to a point where we are doing, very, very badly as a country when we are unable to provide any level of sufficient care to those people who need …
A campaigning Northumberland mother has won her latest fight to keep her daughter’s brutal killer behind bars. Doreen Soulsby, of Wall, near Hexham, has already endured four attempts by murderer Stephen Ling, now 48, to win parole after he was jailed for the murder of 29-year-old Joanne Tulip in 1998, and she has just learned …
The North East’s burgeoning film and television industry was out in force at the weekend to toast its successes. More than 400 people packed into the Hilton in Gateshead to enjoy an evening of celebrating achievements on screens of all sizes, compered by comedian, writer and director, Jason Cook. And while much of the current …
A mother is calling for food standard regulations to be tightened after her daughter had an allergic reaction to ice cream following changes to the ingredients. Philippa Brock took her daughter, Mercy, to have eye drops administered and decided to reward her bravery with Jude’s vegan salted caramel mini-ice-cream. But the four-year-old from Newcastle had …
Teenage speed king Will Crewdson is chasing down Northumberland’s most successful motor racing export after clinching a career-changing £40,000 scholarship. The Corbridge driver has Morpeth’s Le Mans star Rob Bell in his sights after beating 29 rivals from across the UK to the prestigious Junior Saloon Car Championship (JSCC) prize. But 17-year-old Will insists his …
GIGAFACTORY TALKS: Administrators EY said they have held discussions with other potential buyers of the gigafactory site in Cambois, Northumberland, where Britishvolt planned to build. The nearly £4 billion plant had been promised around £100 million of Government grants if it could reach certain milestones, but it collapsed at the start of last year. After …
It’s the sort of window shopping experience that might have appealed to HG Wells or John Wyndham – a swathe of black sheeting visible behind posters teasing: “Imagine if we could grow buildings.” But this at 55 Westgate Road, the historic Newcastle building known as Assembly House – conventionally constructed from brick and stone in …
The work of a Californian astronomer inspired (and named) an exhibition in Northumberland — and now she’s made the transatlantic journey to see it. Noctalgia: Dark Skies Matter is currently on display at The Sill visitor centre on Hadrian’s Wall, having opened in December to mark the 10th anniversary of Northumberland Dark Sky Park. The …
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