Newcastle University now has three winners of the prestigious poetry honour the TS Eliot Prize among its staff.
Jacob Polley won this year’s TS Eliot Prize with his collection Jackself while Professor Sean O’Brien was awarded the same honour in 2007 for The Drowned Book.
Now Northern Irish poet Sinead Morrissey...
A North East charity supporting those who are, or who are facing, homelessness, has received a welcome boost from The Sir Graham Wylie Foundation.
North East Homeless – which runs a range of services from its North Shields hub – can now plan for the future, after Sage founder, Sir...
It's hard to overstate quite how massive R&B rockers The Animals were in the mid-1960s. And that torch is being kept lit to this day.
Amazingly, drummer and final remaining original band member John Steel is still smashing it on stage with the band’s current iteration at the age of...
Global experts in animation are due to converge on Teesside University from across the world this summer to share their knowledge.
The 33rd Society for Animation Studies (SAS) Conference will bring together around 200 international delegates, including animation scholars and practitioners, to share and present their research.
Held at a different...
NEWCASTLE’S most stylish venue is entering into the spirit of Halloween with pumpkin flavoured teatime treats and a specially created cocktail.
On Sunday 31 October Leila Lily’s, at Grey Street, will serve up a specially created Afternoon Tea – for one day only.
The venue – owned by Malhotra Group plc...
The Miss England Contest organisers have teamed up with Flawless Photography & Makeover Studios in Middlesbrough to find Finalists from the North East for the next Miss England Final.
Director “Angie Beasley” & Choreographer “Lisa Powell” are looking for contestants aged 16-26 to apply to make sure the area is...
A North-East based literary event has been shortlisted for Event of the Year in the UK’s FutureBook Awards.
Virtual Noir at the Bar (VNatB), hosted by writers Simon Bewick and Vic Watson, is
one of six online events up for the new award category after being nominated by
writers and publishers.
The FutureBook...
Following its successful launch in Northumberland, a family-friendly interactive exhibition based on the North East’s experience of coronavirus is heading to St Nicholas’ Cathedral in Newcastle.
Created by students at Duke’s Secondary School in Ashington (Part of Northumberland Church of England Academy Trust), the ‘Pan@NCEA’ project combines elements of the...
Northumberland National Park Authority has partnered with Gateshead Council’s Art Diamonds project to help people of retirement age get creative and connect with nature.
Art Diamonds is a programme of creative activities and events for people of retirement age led by Gateshead Council’s Libraries Arts & Heritage Service. The project...
Community spirited North Tyneside resident Stephen Douglas has brought his idea to life and set up a community Beekeeping project at Meadow Well Connected in North Tyneside. Throughout lockdown, Stephen raised £5,214 through Spacehive, a crowdfunding platform for ideas that bring local spaces to life - the world’s first...
