Scarborough’s former Victorian prison was again filmed for a TV documentary in 2011 after it was used the previous year… Read more Scarborough prison is used for TV documentary
Month: Jun 2022
Scarborough’s statues
During my last year in Scarborough the area started acquiring a collection of large metal statues by the artist Ray… Read more Scarborough’s statues
Diana Ross at Newcastle Arena in 1997
It was hard to avoid the blanket coverage of this weekend’s Glastonbury Festival and one of the highlights was a… Read more Diana Ross at Newcastle Arena in 1997
They come from a pipe band Down Under!
With the Piping Inverness event over the weekend I wanted to share this article purely for the headline which I… Read more They come from a pipe band Down Under!
Meeting your heroes
One of the perks of the job is that you get to interview famous people and those who you admire.… Read more Meeting your heroes
Piping Inverness
It was good to see the return of Piping Inverness earlier today after its enforced two-year absence due to the… Read more Piping Inverness
The very first Armed Forces Day
Today is Armed Forces Day and it is a well established annual event but, back in April 2009, I got… Read more The very first Armed Forces Day
Petition to save popular nightclub
I was reminded of this saga when a friend’s local bar was targeted by the police, who linked nearby incidents… Read more Petition to save popular nightclub
Toongate
Ever since the Watergate investigation of the 1970s any major story is suitably christened with the word gate tagged on… Read more Toongate
‘I’ll spoil my little miracle’
In the trade we call it babysitting and on this occasion it was literally just that. A Sunderland woman had… Read more ‘I’ll spoil my little miracle’