Berwick’s barracks to stage ‘living parade’ artwork
Maltings Trust Local people will be filmed in advance to appear in images projected on the walls An 18th century barracks is to be lit up in a “living parade” as the first event in a five-year plan to increase visitor numbers. The artwork, made up of large-scale light projections, is part of The Living […]
Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond dies
Key moments Alex Salmond’s life and career… in 107 seconds Scotland’s former First Minister Alex Salmond has died suddenly at the age of 69. The former MP and MSP, who led the country between 2007 and 2014, became ill while attending an international conference in North Macedonia. The North Macedonian government said Mr Salmond had […]
Sunderland Maritime Heritage museum running out of space
Sunderland Maritime Heritage Mr Sullivan, pictured third from left, said expanding in the neighbouring building would be a “step forward” A museum and visitor centre trying to preserve a city’s shipbuilding heritage is “running out of space”. Volunteers at Sunderland Maritime Heritage Museum, in Sunderland, said “hardly a week goes past” without people dropping off […]
Champion of independence leaves a fractured political legacy
Getty Images Edinburgh awoke on 19 September 2014 with a blanket of mist soaking the stones of the old city. The cacophony of an independence referendum campaign which had echoed through Scotland for three years had died away and Alex Salmond, so often the embodiment of pugnacious self-confidence, appeared pale and drained. Overnight it had […]
DJ Danny Stubbs’ last track to raise money for cancer charity
The final work of a Stoke-on-Trent DJ who died from cancer earlier this year has now been released as a charity single. Danny Stubbs, from Chell Heath, began his career in clubs in Hanley in the early 2000s. He went on to enjoy a career that took him across the world and worked with some […]
Dacorum Borough Council ‘not safe for women’ claims councillor
Amy Holmes/BBC Lara Pringle said she had lost faith in the Liberal Democrats and that it was “not safe” to be a female politician in Dacorum A Liberal Democrat councillor who resigned the whip said she had lost faith in her party and that it was “not safe” to be a female politician on the […]
I never imagined women’s rights would be lost so easily
Getty Images Malala Yousafzai has campaigned for women’s rights since she was shot by a Taliban gunman in 2012 A bullet failed to silence her, now Malala Yousafzai is lending her voice to the women of Afghanistan. In just a few years since the Taliban retook control of the country, women’s rights have been eroded […]
Why the next Tory leader needs to go Cornish
Getty Images Next Saturday we will finally find out who the Conservatives have chosen as their next party leader – and the leader of the UK government’s official opposition. The two contenders, Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick, are both seen as being on the right of the party, and their core messages, on immigration and […]
Blossoms on Gary, the gorilla that helped them reach ‘the peak of our powers’
BBC/So Television/PA Media/Matt Crossick Blossoms took their replica Gary gorilla on to the BBC’s Later… with Jools Holland last month After scoring their latest number one with an album named after an eight-foot fibreglass gorilla called Gary, Manchester band Blossoms are doing a victory lap of their home city – with five sold-out gigs in […]
Inside a scam looting millions from Indians
Pavan Kumar Ruchika Tandon had nonstop surveillance by strangers on the phone For a harrowing week in August, Ruchika Tandon, a 44-year-old neurologist at one of India’s top hospitals, was ensnared in what felt like a high-stakes federal crime investigation. Yet, it was an elaborate scam – a web of deceit spun by scammers who […]