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Media matters…

With a career in journalism spanning more than 30 years I aim to share a few highlights as well as some insights into the industry…

“The phonebox was filled with blood.”

Bizarrely a story I worked on way back in October 1995 was featured in a nostalgia page in the publication now known as The Mail (but it will always be the North West Evening Mail to me because that was what it was when I worked there between 1992 and 1996. Basically I am not…

90th anniversary of the Jarrow March

Today, 90 years ago in 1936, a group of unemployed shipyard workers from Jarrow set off from the town hall on the 300-mile march to the Houses of Parliament in England’s capital and it has been dubbed as the beginning of one of the most defining moments in north-east history and it is also known…

The whole of the Moon

Related article: Museum of the Moon I was kindly reminded by Facebook yesterday that three years ago I visited Hexham Abbey to see and photograph the Museum of the Moon art installation by UK artist Luke Jerram. It was impressive to say the least to see an internally lit spherical sculpture with an approximate scale…

Millennium Bridge 25 years on

Earlier this month I was reminded that 25 years ago I watched and photographed residents crossing the River Tyne on the new ‘blinking’ Millennium Bridge which links the town of Gateshead and the neighbouring city of Newcastle. By that time I had witnessed it being carefully lowered into place and also a test of it…

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