The science fiction short film After Link will be shown at Teeside Valley Film Festival tomorrow (Friday, November 13), the movie’s first and last showing in the North East.   The film is a co-production between the North East and Portugal, featuring a Portuguese cast and filmed over the course of a week in Portugal, […]

Mich Addison in his playing days.  Possibly the most unusual and heartfelt sporting tribute ever captured on camera is the subject of Italian filmmaker Raffaele Trasatti’s latest documentary – which has been entered for the first-ever Gateshead International Film Festival (GIFF). In September 2024, the Whitley Bay ice hockey community lost a beloved member when […]

The annual unveiling of Fenwick’s Christmas display window took place on November 1, where an invited audience watched the countdown live on Northumberland Street, Newcastle. The new window display was then open to the public on November 2, where people queued down the street to take a look. This years theme took inspiration from children’s […]

A legendary North East restaurant and ice cream parlour has closed down. Mark Toney & Co, a familiar name to ice-cream-loving families across the North East, has closed its two Newcastle restaurants, with staff being made redundant. The company has a wholesale business supplying other food businesses and two high-street locations, one on Grainger Street […]

The Elizabeth Donnison Foundation has donated £4,507 to a Hendon primary school, which will use the money to buy violins, science equipment and reading books. The charity was established by Elizabeth Donnison in 1929 to give girls equal access to religious education. It has recently been revived with a broader purpose: to support “all educational […]