1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1366+ words) A quick note before we get into it. I (Sam) know I said the summer shenanigans were over and there’d be no more disruption to your regularly scheduled newsletters. And while that’s technically true, I wanted to offer a heads…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (684+ words) A weekend of events will celebrate the centenary of Northumberland’s vast Kielder Forest. Over its 100 years, the forest’s 250 square miles, totalling 15 million trees, has evolved into a multi-purpose asset, producing timber and maturing into a wildlife sanctuary with its osprey…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (509+ words) This week’s Cultured. On Sunday is landing a little later than usual. Apologies for that. I (Sam) have spent the past couple of days clocking up 40,000 steps (and 12 stand-up shows) on the cobbled streets of Edinburgh. And while my Apple…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1091+ words) They’ll be making windmills in Blyth this weekend which isn’t an inappropriate activity for a town deeply invested in renewable energy. But these aren’t the giant wind turbines you’ll find at ORE Catapult, one of Blyth’s thriving employers and innovators....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (370+ words) An evolving chorus of birdsong dedicated to people who have died will fill Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens as part of a new immersive artwork opening this week (August 21). They can explore a collection of 200 field recordings and original bird paintings…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (535+ words) Fifty years ago saw the realisation of the dream of Frank Atkinson, founder of what is now the North East’s biggest visitor attraction. In 1976, Rowley Station became the first relocated building to be opened at Beamish Museum by Poet Laureate…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (412+ words) In the first decade of the 18th century in a Tyneside town, a businessman with a name nobody would forget built what would become one of the country’s leading glassworks. Onesiphorus Dagnia – the Greek name of a figure from the Bible…...

1+ mon, 5+ hour ago   (976+ words) Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys is one of the headline names at this year’s Durham Book Festival, along with Christopher Eccleston, Susanna Clarke, James Marriott, Lucy Foley, Hollie McNish and Louise Doughty. Tickets are now on sale for the…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1244+ words) The symbolic nature of flags has fuelled much heated debate in recent years but then you come up against one that’s so much more than a symbol. The flag recently acquired by North East Museums (NEM), and unveiled this week,…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (328+ words) Award-winning documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield will be the special guest at the opening of this year’s Whitley Bay Film Festival, which returns in September with a programme celebrating classic cinema, cult favourites and documentary film in some of North Tyneside’s…...