Experience Music Through Time at Beamish Museum this February
You are invited to sing and dance the day away at Beamish, The Living Museum of the North at a special music-themed event. During Changing Tunes: Music Through Time (17 to 25 February), visitors to the County Durham open air museum can enjoy live music around the museum. The...
Major jazz tour of the North pilots new model for sustainable touring
The Glasshouse, manchester jazz festival, and Music Meeting Festival in the Netherlands have joined forces to programme two tours which will travel between venues exclusively by train. The tour serves as a pilot for a new model for sustainable touring and to help build local relationships. Flights are one the biggest sources...
All Aboard The Stottie Train As Big River Bakery and Lumo Bring North East Favourite To East Coast Travellers
To celebrate the first-ever National Stottie Cake Week, Newcastle-based Lumo will be serving up delicious handmade stottie sandwiches from Big River Bakery on its train services between Edinburgh and London. The open-access train operator, who run an all-electric fleet of inter-city trains between Edinburgh and London, with stops at...
Ongoing appointments ensure UNW Audit goes from strength to strength
In the wake of sustained growth and new client wins, Newcastle-based independent chartered accountancy and business advisory firm UNW continues to invest substantially in recruitment and the development of its audit team. Following the successful integration over the last 12 months of Martin Cross at partner level, the firm...
Northumbria University spin-out raises £1.4m for lung test to aid early diagnosis of asthma
PulmoBioMed, a Northumbria University spin-out which has developed a new lung test that could lead to earlier diagnosis of asthma and other conditions, has raised £1.4m to help commercialise its technology. The investment round was led by the North East Venture Fund, supported by the European Regional Development Fund and...
Northumbria welcomes Shadow Secretary of State for Education
The Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, visited Northumbria University, Newcastle to hear about world leading research that is having an impact regionally, nationally and globally and the way in which it is breaking down barriers to create more opportunities for people in the North East. Northumbria...
SIX Rooftop nears completion of its scenic restaurant refurbishment and announces reopening date to celebrate its 15th Anniversary
Get ready to embark on a mouth-watering journey as SIX Rooftop, the celebrated dining spot perched atop the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, is putting the finishing touches to its exciting refurbishment. As it gears up for its 15th Anniversary, the iconic restaurant is undergoing a tasteful transformation that...
One week to go – AJ Bell Great North Run ballot
There’s just one week left to enter the ballot for a chance to be part of this year’s GNR – the UK’s biggest running event and world’s biggest half marathon on Sunday 8 September 2024. With 60,000 entrants, the event isn’t just the biggest, the popularity of the AJ...
Could you live in a house built from fungus?
Discover breathable walls that can open and close like pinecones, lotus leaves that could hold the key to self-cleaning windows and walls that could be built out of fungi, in a fascinating new selection of exhibits at Newcastle’s Life Science Centre. The new Growing our Futures exhibits spotlight how...
Muckle LLP grows top-ranked corporate team with qualified solicitor
Leading law firm for businesses, Muckle LLP, is continuing to expand its top-ranked corporate team with the addition of a newly qualified solicitor. Melissa Henderson has recently qualified into the Muckle corporate team, where she will be assisting Partner Anthony Evans on a range of corporate transactions including share...