Blogs

Rosedene Nurseries, which has 10 settings across Tees Valley and North Yorkshire, welcomed families across the region to a family fun day, featuring a guest appearance from Middlesborough mascot, Roary the Lion. Children from all the settings headed to the Herlingshaw Centre in Normanby to play...

And so it all comes crashing down. Not on the crisp turf of Wembley, as perhaps seemed the stronger possibility, but at fortress Riverside. It seemed like a statistical improbability. Not only had we not failed to score in a single game there in Michael Carrick’s tenure as Middlesbrough...

No. 1 of Off The Beat - a new bi-weekly music review/listings from Tracy Hyman and Robert Nichols. Once, many moons ago we combined Tracy's photos and my words in a weekly review in the Evening Gazette - now we have revived the format to do our little bit to bring some extra profile to the live...

Mt Misery/Love'n'Joy – Hit The Bar Thurs 30 March 2023 Not many gigs you go to where the band is on the telly before the show but this was a very special event indeed and worthy of a Look North news item. Love'n'Joy are on a special mission to raise money and raise awareness of a cause that is...

This one probably won’t make us many friends, but here goes… Steve Gibson should do the right thing and drop the club’s legal action against today’s visitors. From the outside looking in, this messy episode is an unnecessary act of kicking another club when it’s down and it reflects poorly on...

So I’ve heard those words ” You have cancer ” ………….. then a pause from the Nurse. And then came the ” BUT!” But its not serious” , she said. Now I had not left my story at the point last week, deliberately to make light of the situation and or make people think I was being flippant , it was...

ATTENDING THE FOUNDATION So it’s my first time attending and I’ve been asked if I would like a Cup of tea or Coffee. Now, as I mentioned earlier a Psychiatrist had deduced only a few months before that having something as basic as that gesture would be therapeutic for me. Someone would be...

I’ve started here because I’m trying to convey why I even decided to attend the Foundation in the first place. If I’m brutally honest it was because of abject unadulterated loneliness! My loneliness was so bad that it was destroying my life and eating me away. I’d reached a crossroads in my life...