A family have donated the remnants of a Roman fort – which lies on land they own along Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland – to the British nation.
Carrawburgh Roman Fort was private property for 70 years, but has now been given to Historic England, and will be administered by English Heritage.
Carrawburgh...
Art experts recently discovered a hidden treasure highly appropriate to the Festive Season.
Art conservators – from Newcastle’s Northumbria University – x-rayed a painting and found that it had another painting underneath it.
The picture they x-rayed – a centuries-old depiction of the beheading of John the Baptist – obscured another...
How effective will Global Climate Strikes be today?
Today, (20 Sept 2019) millions of people from 150 countries around the world are calling on their governments to reverse the effects of pollution on global climate and environment issues.
This year's youth climate movement has influenced a sense of urgency on Climate...
A new bank – which is owned by its customers and only does business in the north east – may soon become a reality.
Funding for a study which will explore the feasibility of such a bank has been approved by the cabinet of the North of Tyne Combined Authority,...
On Wednesday 10th July many city centre streets will be closed including Grey Street, Grainger Street and the Bigg Market. The reason they'll be closed is for professional cyclists to compete in a major hour-long race to start and finish at Grey's Monument.
As cyclists bring Newcastle traffic to a...
A north-east festival is to celebrate the region’s seafaring past.
The Sunderland River Festival, on Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September, will see street theatre, live music, water-based entertainment and even an enormous inflatable whale.
The family friendly event will be taking place on both sides of the River Wear...
On Saturday the 8th June, Nashville rock outfit Lola Montez took to the stage at The Three Tuns in Gateshead. It’s safe to say that the entertainment was kept to an incredibly high standard during the evening throughout a long set list of around twenty songs.
Before the gig began...
A team of researchers led by experts from Newcastle University has highlighted how slick, well-designed websites and apps can be used to sell high-cost loans to poor and vulnerable people.
The websites include sliders that customers can play around with, brightly coloured ‘apply now’ buttons, forms that are simple to...
Review: The Standing Water (Steel String Books) by David Castleton
“Quality fiction with a gothic edge”
Maybe nowhere in England is all that remote, but some places can still feel isolated. Perhaps you’re only 15 miles from the nearest dual carriageway, but when glowering clouds mass overhead, when the mist...
British rock-soul singer Paul Carrack – famous for smash hits such as How Long, Over my Shoulder and The Living Years – will play Gateshead’s Sage on 27th January 2019.
Paul – who has sung for acts like Mike + the Mechanics and Ace, and worked with Eric Clapton –...
