SUPERGLUE Photo by Paula Smart SUPERGLUE at the People’s Theatre Each year the National Theatre commissions ten new plays for young people to perform, bringing together some of the UK’s most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow. This year marks the fifth time that the talented Young People’s TheatreContinue Reading
Photo credit: Von Fox Promotions A new play from multi award-winning poet and playwright Caroline Bird, Red Ellen tells the remarkable story of Ellen Wilkinson, the revolutionary Labour MP who fought with an unstoppable, reckless energy for a better world. Ellen Wilkinson A working-class woman in a man’s world, Ellen Wilkinson campaignedContinue Reading
Palindromic car registration Photo from wikimedia commons 22-02-2022 This Tuesday is a special day. It’s the only truly palindromic day in 2022. The date is 22-02 2022, a number that reads the same forwards and backwards. The day has been nicknamed ‘Twosday’. Palindromes We know more about word palindromes thanContinue Reading
Angel of the North Photo by Mike Peel On 15 February, the Angel of the North, a well-known 65 feet high cor-ten steel sculpture situated in Gateshead, has turned 24 years old since its inception in February 1998. As it is located on a hilltop by the A1 it isContinue Reading
New recruits at TWFRS A postman, electrician and a hospital porter are among the new generation of firefighters recruited to save lives across Tyne and Wear in TWFRS. Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service (TWFRS) has announced that 21 recruits have started their training at their headquarters in Washington.Continue Reading
English medieval peasants going to church “Words are trouble, words are subtle Words of anger, words of hate” ‘Wordy Rappinghood’ The Tom Tom club In Part 1, I recalled the 2019 visit of the 12th century Gysburne bible to its hometown of Guisborough in today’s East Cleveland. This brings meContinue Reading
Photo from iStock Yes, leaving a Union has got to be hard is there no remnant, no glimmering shard of regret for leaving behind our shared values and ways for the loud mouthed glamour of “perhaps”es and “may”s To be hostage to whims of a mind unconstrained has got toContinue Reading
John Dunwoodie At an age when many people are thinking of taking life easy, a North Tyneside man is preparing for the challenge of a lifetime in the blazing heat of the Sahara Desert. Retired civil servant John Dunwoodie, who turns 65 in April, aims to complete two marathons inContinue Reading
Regional child poverty campaigners have today renewed calls for social security to keep pace with inflation after new Department for Work & Pensions figures confirm the number of children and young people across the North East facing an imminent cut to their family budgets. In April 2022, social security supportContinue Reading
Boris Johnson as Pinocchio by Matt Brown Photo from flickr I am not surprised about Partygate and other recent controversies involving Boris Johnson. What else could be expected? There are reasons why Boris Johnson is regularly portrayed in cartoons as having a long nose. He has already been sacked twiceContinue Reading
