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With Daniel Gray and Harry Pearson
Base Camp, Middlesbrough Friday 17th September doors 6pm for 7pm kick off
Tickets: £5
Two of the North East’s greatest – and most life-affirming – football writers and broadcasters on stage with host Rob Nichols from Fly Me to the Moon
Expect chats and...
In the wake of Britain’s mega successful Paralympics in Tokyo, Paddy Cronesberry Chair of MDSA(Middlesbrough Disabled Supporters Association) and Chris Joseph(Founder of the Middlesbrough Supporters Forum) are getting ready for sport closer to home. They have “shaken stumps” on a four figure...
Frontman of ‘90s band The Auteurs, solo artist, celebrated author Luke Haines has been asked to present his first ever art exhibition and it is right here, right now in Eston Arts Centre. The debut exhibition, Uncanny Island, features unique representations of Luke's childhood heroes, wrestlers...
The Heritage Gallery at Cargo Fleet is ten years old this summer. Since opening in June 2011, the Heritage Gallery has showcased exhibitions including painting, printmaking, photography, textiles and sculpture.
Operated by Python Properties the gallery has pride of place near the grand entrance...
Thirteen year old Thomas Trelawney is on holiday from London in scenic Runswick Bay. His parents hope the sea air and the visit of his cousin Dan will help him come to terms with his first Christmas following the sudden death of his older sister Grace. Yet little do his parents realise that Tom...
Ken Stockill has been on a mission. Many people set themselves tasks during lockdown. Learn a language. Paint the kitchen. Relay the patio. Yes, we all had good intentions at the onset only to fall by the way side. Ken from Scarborough had staying power; he started so he was going to finish his...
Neil Warnock is going to give it his very best shot next season and wants everyone to know just how much his last season will mean to him. More than that he needs us be back supporting home and away to keep him “on his toes.” I asked the Boro manager if after the way we were slipping up lately...
Cancer in children is, thankfully, relatively rare compared to adults, with around 110 new cases diagnosed in the North East and Cumbria each year. This means new treatments for young patients need to be effective for what are, by their very nature, extremely specialist conditions, and why...
This week I was invited down to the Riverside but not for a football match, but something that really is a matter of life and death, the opening of a mass vaccination centre.
It was a sunny Monday morning as I followed the yellow road signs to the East Stand car park. Fully a year on since our...
We are pitched straight into the heat, the sweat and blood of battle in this new adventure novelette by English Civil War expert, Mark Turnbull. It is the Battle of Naseby, pivotal engagement between King Charles and his new untested foes, the New Model Army and we are right at the cutting edge...
A parmo-inspired greetings card has helped raised hundreds of pounds for Middlesbrough Foodbank.
Created by Heritage Unlocked and Ben Higgins Design, the idea for the ‘I Love You More Than Parmo’ came about when Heritage Unlocked historian Dr Tosh Warwick started exploring the story of the...
Rob Barron (Spikelangelo) - is mining nostalgia to unearth the days before the internet. If you can take yourself back to the world before we were serously dereailed on the 24/7 information supet highway.
Rob is the author of the superb and brutal break down of humanity at an academy/school -...
Community memories and photos of Stockton in the 1970s and 1980s wanted for new book
Memories and photographs of Stockton-on-Tees and the surrounding communities in the 1970s and 1980s are wanted for a new book by Heritage Unlocked historian Dr Tosh Warwick.
Memories of Stockton-on-Tees in the...
We’ve been absolutely thrilled by the positive response to Sir Bobby’s Football Run and thanks again for joining us to ‘run a match’ for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.
In fact, we’ve had so much interest we’ve decided the referee’s going to allow some extra time! So, if you need a little...
Having spent the past 27 days scaling my stair case 88 times a day for MFC Foundation and Boro Walkers Climb Any Mountain challenge I thought that it might be time to find out a little more about the Boro Walkers Charity and how lockdown has affected their fundraising. I contacted the group via...
A wonderful new publication marries words and paintings inspired by Teesside landscape and the Boro. Published poet, long time and indeed long term Boro fan, John Powls has returned to his home land to pay homage with this marriage of his words and a compilation of the work of many favourite...
A wonderful new publication marries words and paintings inspired by Teesside landscape and the Boro. Published poet, long time and indeed long term Boro fan, John Powls has returned to his home land to pay homage.
I wrote these few words of introduction to a Q and A with John in last Saturday's...
Dr Tosh Warwick is busy researching the first authorised biography of Boro hot shot goals king, George Camsell and he would dearly love your help.
When the question of Boro’s greatest goalscorer is raised, the debates that ensue often turn to those in living memory and invariably...
The Boro boss has thrown down the gauntlet to Boro fans to come up with a song to welcome one of his new transfer window recruits, Congolese winger, Neeskins Kebano.
Neil Warnock and the fans will be hoping that the 28 year old DR Congo wide man can unlock defences for Boro just as he did for...
The story of George Camsell, Boro’s greatest ever goalscorer and England’s goals-to-games record holder, is to be told in a new authorised biography by Heritage Unlocked historian Dr Tosh Warwick.
Authorised by the Camsell family, the book will be the first biography dedicated to the Ayresome...