It was late at night or early in the morning. Or was it the middle of the afternoon? It’s difficult to tell in the picturesque Norwegian town of Honningsvåg, a few miles south of the Nordkapp, in the middle of summer. You see, throughout June and July, near 24-hour daylight is a prominent feature of …
Coinciding nicely with Wimbledon, that annual fortnight when everyone notices tennis, is this tour-de-force. Kemi-Bo Jacobs, an associate artist at Live Theatre, draws on her experience and evident deep well of stamina to tell the story of Althea Gibson, Wimbledon champion in 1957 and ’58. It’s a breathless telling of a tale with many twists, …
5th July …. and we have a new Government ….. but what has previously happened on this day in history? 328 Constantine’s Bridge, crossing the Danube between Romania and Bulgaria, was opened 1594 Portuguese forces began an unsuccessful invasion of the Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka 1610 John Guy and 39 other colonists set sail for Newfoundland 1687 Isaac …
28th June … and a quick look at what has previously happened on this day in history … including an event in Newcastle upon Tyne … 1461 Edward, Earl of March, was crowned King Edward IV of England 1519 Charles V was elected as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1635 Guadeloupe became a French colony 1797 French rule began …
Unusually for early June in the North East of England, it was a balmy, blue sky, summer’s day. If I hadn’t been already, I was feeling the heat. The blazing sun was starting to poke through the gaps in my helmet’s visor and, beneath the rim, sweat was pouring off my forehead, down my nose …
At the Bernard Butler gig at Gosforth Civic Theatre last night two things became quickly apparent. The first was that Bernard Butler is a thoroughly nice man. The second was that he starts his show on time, regardless of how many people are still in the bar. There was no dimming of the lights or …
I woke up last Sunday morning to the alarming and yet painfully familiar headline ‘Download Festival fury after rock fans were forced to party in ‘mud up to their ankles’ branding the sludge a ‘serious health hazard’. Been there, done that, got the tee-shirt (although it was caked in so much c**p by the end …
21st June – it’s Midsummer Day … and a quick look at what has previously happened on this day in history ….. 1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia, was founded 1788 New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States 1791 Louis XVI and his family began the Flight to Varennes 1900 The Boxer Rebellion. China declared …
Jack Reacher is a retired Military Police officer, formerly of the US Army. He is the lead character in a fantastically successful series of books written by British author Lee Child, which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. There are 28 Reacher novels in all, and I’ve currently read 27 and a half of …
Dateline: The Ninth of June. And what better day to muse about, as Geordie Ridley tells us, as the date they went to Blaydon Races in 1862. As symmetry would have it, 1862 was 162 years ago and Newcastle United must be the only football club to have an anthem of that vintage. It is …
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