ADVERTISEMENT The North East has a real connection with and affection for the people of Ukraine. We recently published a piece on support and solidarity from Sunderland by Michal Chantkowski, as well as a series of articles on Ukrainian culture and fashion by Dr Jayne Hamilton. This weekend, former MEPContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Singer songwriter Andrew Cushin has been unveiled as the special guest at this year’s Hardwick Festival. The announcement that the performer – who in the past year has appeared alongside everyone from the Libertines to Noel Gallagher – will take to the stage on Saturday 20 August has beenContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Tomorrow (Sunday 31 July 2022) is an historic day as the very newly formed Ukraine Freedom Orchestra performs at the Royal Albert Hall. Musicians come from different parts of Ukraine and from different orchestras and ensembles. They come together on a world tour for the next few weeks, visitingContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT A North Tyneside charity is inviting designers to turn the loos at its newly renovated hub for the homeless into “amazing spaces”. North East Homeless’ North Shields site is currently undergoing a major £700k refit to expand and refine the services it offers to those who are, or whoContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT I had great hopes in you. Now you have destroyed my faith in you. Whilst you were deputy Labour leader to Jeremy Corbyn you stood up for working people, you highlighted the folly of Brexit, you highlighted the inadequacies and incompetence of the Tory government. Now, you might asContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Richard Marggraf-Turley, Aberystwyth University SPOILER ALERT: this article contains plot references to Persuasion. So, the jury’s in. People really, really hate Netflix’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Austen’s last novel, the book follows the story of 27-year-old Anne Elliot eight years after she has was persuaded to break offContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT On rare occasions, if you’re lucky, you get to see a theatre performer who changes the way you see the world. So it was when Rachel Stockdale held stage and audience at Live Theatre on Saturday in Fat Chance. The stage set: comfortable bright red casting sofa, screen onContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT An acclaimed chef is to realise a long-held dream to create his own restaurant, after Newcastle City Council gave the green light to a licence application. Council bosses have approved the plans for the former Sale Pepe eatery at St George’s Terrace, Jesmond to turn it into Lovage, aContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Last week parts of Europe and the UK have literally been on fire, and temperatures have exceeded 40 Celsius in the UK (at 34 locations) for the first time in recorded history. Headline news across the world. And yet today, just a few days on from the fires, withContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT …I would tell your story backwards, reverse-count the rocket shooting-up, out of reach, Swim with you out of the gin-clear pool, and hold your head above the water. Return you to the epigraph. I would wipe the brine from your eyes, rubbing out the mascara trails, Restore the cornrowsContinue Reading
