It was standing room only at St James Church Centre, just downhill from Alnwick’s historic Pottergate Tower, with the venue full and dozens more funnelled into an overflow side room where they could watch the action going on upstairs via closed-circuit TV. The attraction was hustings organised by environmental groups in which parliamentary candidates for …
Efforts to put the much loved Tyneside Cinema on a sound footing have received a £700,000 fillip from Northstar Ventures, the North East venture capital firm. The money comes in the form of a loan from the firm’s North East Social Investment Fund and is to be paid back over 10 years. But the financial …
The word ‘carent’ is not in the English dictionary. If it was, its descriptor might go something like: Adult children looking after an elderly parent, grandparent, relative or friend: the care of someone finding it difficult to live independently due to advanced health problems. The hybrid term, of course, is little more than a portmanteau, …
Keep calm and put in a bid … and you could own a piece of Second World War history which became a global phenomenon. Three original, different-sized versions of the famous Keep Calm and Carry On poster from 1939 will be sold by Newcastle auctioneers Anderson & Garland on July 4, with estimates ranging from …
Brian McNally was a giant of North East sports journalism. Indeed, his reputation as one of the finest writers around was not confined to the region he championed all his life. At Italia 90, he briefly shared the limelight with three of our finest — Bobby Robson, Paul Gascoigne and Jack Charlton — for his …
COUPLE HONOURED: A North Tyneside couple who raised more than £2m for cancer research have been made MBEs in the King’s Birthday Honours. Lynn Lucas, and her husband who is also called Lynn, were made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to charitable fundraising. Their son Christopher died in 2000 …
A new trail and exhibition could soon be installed at one of the North East’s best-loved parks to celebrate the life and works of Gateshead artist Charlie Rogers. The concept, which is under consideration by Gateshead Council, aims to elevate awareness of Rogers’ work following his death in 2020 via a trail in his beloved …
A North East cancer charity is this week counting the cost of an alleged break-in at its headquarters that could end up costing the organisation more than £60,000. Fighting All Cancers Together (FACT) founder Joanne Smith was contacted by police last Thursday (June 13) following reports of an alleged attempted burglary at their main support …
A mother who devoted her time to helping prisoners of war after losing two sons in separate conflicts has been honoured with a blue plaque at her former home. Helena Rosa Duncombe Shafto was made the first Honorary Freewoman of Durham in 1919 and later awarded the OBE in recognition of her work for good …
James Kilty, who has died suddenly aged 54, served the Heaton community, and more widely Newcastle, as a barber for over 30 years. His barber shop at 41 Warton Terrace, just off Chillingham Road, dates back to 1937. Generations of families have been coming to this same shop for their haircut for over 85 years, …
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