The new recruits A new generation of firefighters have pulled on their uniform this week after one of the largest recruitment drives in recent years. Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service (TWFRS) has announced 36 recruits have started their training at their headquarters in Washington. The trainee firefighters beganContinue Reading
Domenico Lucano Yesterday Domenico (Mimmo) Lucano, the former mayor of the town of Riace in Calabria, Italy, was sentenced to a jail term of 13 years 2 months. He was also ordered to repay 500,000 euros to the Italian state and EU. Mimmo Lucano has been perhaps the world’s mostContinue Reading
Simon Clarke, MP Photo from wikimedia commons Today Simon Clarke, Treasury Minister and MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, said, on Radio 4 Today that the fuel shortages are not unique to the UK: “The idea that this is just a British problem is fundamentally wrong.“ He claims thatContinue Reading
A Green Pass (aka vaccine passport) in digital format used in Parma (Italy) to control access to a bistro.Photo from wikimedia commons A recent holiday in Italy has allowed me to compare the contrasting approaches taken in fighting Covid-19. In Italy face masks are still compulsory in enclosed spaces. HereContinue Reading
First Baptist Church Mahan partnered with CVS to administer vaccines without appointments to those falling between the cracks. Pictured are Steven Blunt ,Jay Schifrin, David Reid, Frederick Greene, Barbara Warren Jones, John Spruill, Patricia Richards-Spruill, Gayle Jackson, Sharon Reid, Tommi Robson, Chad Musick, Danielle Lind, Steven Blunt, Valerie Brown, James Brown,Continue Reading
Live Theatre, Newcastle reopened on Thursday 2 September and returning audiences are benefiting from a capital investment programme which has delivered significant improvements to the quayside venue’s ventilation and heating system. The works, part of Live Theatre Fit for 50 initiative to decarbonise the theatre, were supported using public fundingContinue Reading
Photo by Crew on Unsplash I recently began working in hospitality. An area of which I had no experience. Little did I know that I was coinciding with the upheaval of Covid-19 and Brexit. I have tried to pull out some of the trends that I have seen and inContinue Reading
It’s 05:15, Sunday morning in Clapham, and I’m adopting ‘North Korea driving’ methods to save fuel. It’s a phrase I made up in 2002 when touring that isolated country, at the time barely crawling out of a famine that had killed a tenth of its people, a famine precipitated inContinue Reading
Oleksandr Usyk is the new unified heavyweight world champion after dethroning Anthony Joshua with an incredible performance in London. Continue Reading
Icicles hanging from a brown pipe. October will be a month of dread for too many people in the United Kingdom. It is when six million of the poorest households will lose £20 a week because of benefit cuts. The Job Retention Scheme, better known as furlough, comes to anContinue Reading
