A national campaigner who overcame her own major challenges to fight for disability rights is to be honoured with a blue plaque in her Tyneside home town. The plaque will be unveiled on July 18 at the former home of Mary Greaves on Lish Avenue, Whitley Bay. Mary, who was born in 1907 and died …
Moves to inject new life into one of Newcastle’s historic buildings have received a welcome boost with a financial contribution and support from a national organisation. The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has made an award of £36,539 to go towards the restoration of the Keelmen’s Hospital which has occupied a commanding site overlooking Newcastle Quayside …
ALL CHANGE: Newcastle United co-owners Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi look set to leave the club this summer after three years at St James’ Park. Staveley played a key role in orchestrating the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund’s purchase of an 80 per cent stake in The Magpies in 2021, bringing an end to Mike …
Young inventors have come up with ideas to take the guesswork out of food wastage which adds to people’s grocery bills and also involves an environmental cost. A bin capable of weighing food waste and a camera system which monitors fridge contents were among solutions from the Future Business Magnates competition that invited pupils from …
What a week. For those of us who live and breathe or even closely observe politics, this is like Christmas and your birthday coming at once. Was it really just six weeks ago that Rishi Sunak kicked it all off with a moment that will surely be consigned to the history books? The rain poured …
Labour has said it is ready to make three major housing announcements within a fortnight of taking power. That was the exclusive claim from this week’s Sunday Times, which had decided to nail a red rosette to its mast for the first time in two decades. The newspaper says one of the announcements will be …
Prof Matthew Johnson is a refreshingly straight-talking, no-nonsense North Easterner with his finger firmly on the pulse of public policy research. The son of welfare dependent parents has seen his head turned and his opinion reshaped by compelling evidence that reinforces the view that financial and social security comfortably trump austerity and economic streamlining when …
Village halls — all 150 of them — are at the heart of Northumberland rural life and have been for many years. Now the Northumberland Village Halls Heritage project has celebrated their history and continuing value to the county’s communities. The project has produced a website and a new book and is the culmination of …
There was a late night knock at the door. Brendan Foster got up to answer it after a day which had seen the very first Great North Run grace the streets of Tyneside. On the doorstep of his Low Fell home stood neighbour Phillip Crawley, Editor of The Journal, with a print out of the …
BORN TO RUN: There was a Geordie fairytale finish to the Northumberland Plate at Newcastle racecourse at the weekend. Trainer Brian Ellison was born on Plate Day 72 years ago and it has always been his ambition to train the winner of the North East’s biggest horse race, also known as the Pitmen’s Derby. He …
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