ADVERTISEMENT The Business Secretary’s “jobs tomorrow” attitude in face of potential job losses on Teesside is offensive to the workers at the at-risk Mitsubishi Chemical site, said Stockton North MP, Alex Cunningham after he probed ministers about the government’s support for industries facing high energy costs. Raising the issueContinue Reading
Harry Gallagher Poet, singer, songwriter, actor – there’s no beginning to my talents. Working constantly and live blissfully on the North East coast I’m a poet based in the North East of England and my poems have been published all over the place.Continue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Status Quo are going out on tour the Out Out Quoing which marks the band’s long-overdue return to the live circuit – I chatted to Francis Rossi from the group about the tour. Why did you decide to re-record some of your old tracks? We wanted to try and giveContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT As the Irving Berlin musical White Christmas arrives in Sunderland, I chatted to actor Michael Starke about the show and what audiences in the North East can expect. For anyone new to White Christmas, what is the musical all about? The musical is a stage adaptation of the famousContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Live Theatre has a sparkling line-up for Christmas 2022 with the family show Wintry Tales, contemporary romantic comedy Wishes On The Wind, and festive Live Tales creative writing workshops at Fenwick Newcastle. Wintry Tales Live Theatre’s fantastic yuletide offering commences on Sunday 4 December with Wintry Tales a dazzling new show for kids. Follow twoContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Between 1920 and 1939 unemployment in mainland Britain didn’t fall below one million with the average jobless rate standing at 14%. The North East and West Cumbria were the two regions that were badly hit throughout the inter-war period. Inter-war state social policy was dominated by the problem ofContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Heather Connolly, Grenoble École de Management (GEM) Universities in the UK are striking on 24, 25 and 30 November 2022, with action short of a strike beginning on 23 November. Around 70,000 university staff across 150 universities are taking industrial action, following a series of smaller strikes in recentContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Following the conclusion of COP27 on Sunday (20 November) Molly Scott Cato, former Green MEP and now Professor of Economics at the University of Roehampton, believes the presence of fossil fuel lobbyists prevented the ambitious agreement the world needs to starve the growing dangers posed by the climate crisis:Continue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Tuesday 22 November 2022 is both a ‘Twosday’ and a palindromic date. Twosdays have to be on the second day of the week (Tuesday), and also have to be on either 2 or 22 of the month. And a palindrome is the same when read forwards or backwards. TheContinue Reading
ADVERTISEMENT Open letter to Paulo Mirpuri, Mirpuri Foundation and owner of Hi Fly airlines. Dear Paulo Mirpuri Support for refugees I read about the Mirpuri Foundation with great interest. As a Canadian/British citizen living in Canada at that time I was thrilled to read that in, in 2016, the MirpuriContinue Reading
