With longer days in prospect and clement weather surely on its way, National Trust properties in the North East are opening for the season like the crocuses and daffodils (although at Wallington this year, the former were reportedly three weeks early). Cherryburn, birthplace of wood engraver Thomas Bewick, is the next to open, on March …
A trio of North East writers can be found at the centre of Live Theatre’s 2024-25 season. The Bounds, a co-production with the Royal Court by Northumberland writer Stewart Pringle; the first stage adaptation of cult horror film Saint Maud by Sunderland writer Jessica Andrews; and Middlesbrough writer Ishy Din’s Champion about Muhammad Ali’s historic …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Politics is writ large at this year’s Hexham Book Festival as the popular literary event returns to its springtime slot for 2024. A busy 10 days will see 55 events taking place across the Northumberland market town, including in conversation gatherings, film screenings, writing workshops and book group events. The Queen’s Hall Arts Centre and …
Johnny Flynn — film, theatre, TV actor, composer and highly acclaimed musician — is to play at the Allen Valleys’ Folk Festival later this year. It’s an astonishing coup for the festival, which has been running for eleven years, and is based in the south Northumberland village of Allendale. His visit will be a poignant …
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 …
If you live in, or visit, the picturesque Northumberland market town of Hexham you’ll know exactly what this means — ‘thank goodness it’s nearly over’. Town centre roadworks — or to use county council speak: The Hexham Public Realm Improvement Scheme — have dragged on for nearly 10 months. According to some furious traders, if …
The couple behind Northumberland’s first Michelin star restaurant have tabled ambitious expansion plans, which would see them open a new restaurant in the county. Swedish chef Alex Nietosvuori and his Northumberland-born wife, Ally, who opened Restaurant Hjem in the village of Wall in 2019, have submitted a planning application for a purpose-built restaurant-with-rooms on the …
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