Sat alongside his teenage son Jay, at the family dining table in their well-appointed Tynemouth home, a pensive Lewis Bartoli considers a difficult question carefully. Given that he’s just admitted to receiving his first death threat as a Tory councillor, I’m intrigued to know why on earth he’s supporting the fledgling political career of his …
The handwritten entry in the Edwardian date reminder book simply states for November 1: “1914, saved 50 lives hospital ship Rohilla.” It is, says Dorothy Brownlee, one of the few discernible signs of the pride her grandfather felt in having played a pivotal role in one of the early 20th Century’s most heroic, headline-grabbing sea …
Sitting in his bedroom in North Tyneside, Adam Olaore is daring to imagine the possibility of Olympic glory. After years of blood, sweat and sacrifice, it’s now within touching distance. Tantalisingly so. The 22-year-old Wallsend boxer, who is nicknamed Big Future, has secured his ticket to Paris 2024 and, as he prepares to step on …
A blue bicycle is tethered to a lamppost outside Whitley Bay’s newest pub. Random act or product placement? Let’s go for serendipity. The pub is Café Amsterdam and anyone who knows the slightest thing about the Dutch capital will recognise that every hitching post at every bar and canal bridge is a pedal-pusher’s depository. Café …
A project designed to empower local communities in their quest to breathe new life into unused lidos has been hailed as a beacon of collaboration by its North East founder. Tyneside-based Michael Wood, Assistant Professor in Sport Management at Northumbria University, is one of the team working on the restoration of the outdoor pool at …
For youngsters growing up in the cramped and often squalid conditions of a Palestinian refugee camp, it was the experience of a lifetime. It was also a lifetime which in all probability will be spent in the crowded Shatila camp in Beirut. Groups of youngsters were given a window on a new world when they …
David Almond and Julia Green have lived on their quiet Tynemouth street since November 2022 and if ever a place could be called a house of stories it’s surely theirs. Bookending the upstairs landing are studies — one each, with desk, writerly paraphernalia and personal flourishes. Julia’s has a bookcase with David’s published titles and …
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