ADVERTISEMENT Live Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne has a fantastic range of events for music lovers this season, with a great line-up of shows featuring songs, sounds and solos. 2 July Make Hope Possible On Saturday 2 July a stellar line-up of musicians will perform as part of Make Hope Possible,Continue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Once, grubby-kneed and drenched in sunbeams, Head full of stars I knew us as Earthlings. Co-dwellers of Planet Earth. In my vast, cosmological atlas, There were dozens of tiny pinpricks- Other worlds- Where, I knew, would live Martians Venusians Alpha Centaurians Pleiadeans And Andromedans… And how I longed toContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Today Steve Bray, Mr Stop Brexit, had his sound equipment seized by members of the Met Police and received a summons to court. This is due to today being the day when the new Policing Act came into force. The day when “noisy protest” has become illegal. As TomContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT This morning, activist, Steve Bray was warned by police at Westminster not to bring his usual sound equipment to his protest outside parliament. This is because today is the day when the new Policing Act comes into force. To give the Act its proper title, the Police, Crime andContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Occasionally, mainly right-wing commentators will use the number of EU citizens who applied for so called Settled- and pre-Settled Status as evidence, not only that the UK is not a xenophobic country, but also that Brexit has not deterred EU citizens from staying in the UK. Yet there areContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT The No to Hassockfield campaign has informed North East Bylines that this week a group of women will be taken from the former Hassockfield Detention Centre – now renamed Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre to an unidentified airport – to be deported on a flight leaving UK for Nigeria on 29 June. Equally cruelContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Lesley Anne Its 1976, I’m ten years old and I’m sat on the sofa with my mam and nanna watching the Montreal Olympic Games. Nadia Comaneci my absolute hero at the time becomes the first gymnast in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0 for herContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It falls each year on 20 June and celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution. World RefugeeContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Artworks inspired by the history and secrets of one of Sunderland’s oldest buildings will go on show to the public next week. On Thursday, 30 June, the Seventeen Nineteen cultural, heritage and events space, within the former Holy Trinity Parish Church in the city’s east end, will unveil itsContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Refugee Week takes place each year around the time of World Refugee Day (20 June). For 2022 it’s 20-26June. For the last five years or so – excluding lockdowns – some of us have celebrated Refugee Week by meeting ‘al fresco,’ three or four times during the week inContinue Reading
