Five of the six candidates vying to be the first elected mayor of a huge swathe of the North East attended their first hustings at St Chad’s College, Durham, on Monday night. It is reported about 100 people were there to hear them put their case, discussing issues including transport, green energy, schools, housing and …
Newcastle upon Tyne Bach Choir will mark the 300th anniversary of Bach’s St John Passion with a performance in the King’s Hall, Newcastle University. The celebrated work, telling of the last days of Jesus Christ, was first performed on Good Friday in 1724 at St Nicholas Church in Leipzig, where the composer had just been …
Hats off to the talented ensemble daring to deliver The Full Monty to Newcastle Theatre Royal audiences this week. Mark Goucher and David Pugh’s co-production sees a clearly close-knit cast deliver Simon Beaufoy’s adapted screenplay with an intimacy and sensitivity that is certainly worthy of the standing ovation it received. A big-hearted performance packed full …
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 …
October 1963. The Beatles have been at number one for six weeks with She Loves You. Meanwhile, in 10 Downing Street, a report of huge significance lands on the desk of the new Conservative prime minister, Alec Douglas-Home — the Robbins Report on the future of higher education. At a time when only 5% of …
Success for a writer rarely arrives like an inter-city express. More often, if it arrives at all, it’s had a clunky journey beset by unscheduled stoppages, the literary equivalent of sheep on the line. The metaphor is appropriate for one who grew up in a former station master’s house beside the memory of a railway …
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 …
There are many ways of documenting motherhood and while Katie Cuddon’s might not be the most conventional, it’s via a medium she understands and has loved since she was a child. She still treasures the clay animals she made in primary school, early signs of an artistic calling. Now here she is in the Hatton …
Thomas Jackson is a full-time photographer who specialises in capturing live events. A former software developer for the NHS (‘photography is a lot more interesting!’), the County Durham-bred and now Gateshead-dwelling 42-year-old is the top man at Tynesight Media. Although he can’t remember the first photo he took for sure, there’s an old pack of …
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 …
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