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Sir Bobby’s Football Run began as a charity fundraising activity during lockdown last year and has now become a way for football fans and North Easterners living across the world to show their support for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.
The first Football Run saw runners all over the UK...
By Dr Tosh Warwick and Dr Chris Stride
Brian Clough was one of Middlesbrough’s most famous sons who, after breaking goalscoring records for his hometown club and rivals Sunderland, went on to make a global impact in the world of football through his League-winning exploits with Derby County and...
This is a guide and handy map showing all the car parks available for fans attending Boro matches at the Riverside.
https://www.wearemiddlesbrough.com/about-middlesbrough/football-directions-and-parking/
My good friends the band The Knockouts tell us about their club, Luton Town...
Q: When I was a youngster there was a certain glamour about Luton with the distinctive kit and some real flair players.
Do you have good memories growing up with/in Luton?
A: When I first started going we played...
England Women Play Canada tomorrow night (17th Feb) at the Riverside and ahead of that game we talk with former Middlesbrough and England international Marrie Wieczorek. Maz recently returned to work for the MFC Foundation 5 months after suffering a heart attack. She is fit and working again...
Boro’s own Claire Streeter, Alice Hutchinson and Abbey Lyle set off from the Riverside and walked the 106 miles to Old Trafford to raise money for MFC Foundation to create a Dementia Hub at the Riverside Stadium. In mid winter!
The trio set off after the Coventry game and so gave themselves...
INTERNATIONAL CHILDHOOD CANCER DAY
Today is International Childhood Cancer Day (15 Feb), a day dedicated to raising awareness of the special challenges faced by young cancer patients.
Within the Great North Children’s Hospital, the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, which is part of Newcastle...
I’ve always enjoyed creating things for as long as I can remember but I had never allowed myself to consider that aspect of my life as something I could spend my day doing full-time.
My perspective on that gradually began to change after my Mum died of ovarian cancer in 2017. I went on...
Over 10,000 miles away from North East England, an England v the Rest of the World football match has raised an amazing £5,500 for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.
The Live Forever Cup was held in Brisbane, Australia, and was organised by 38-year-old Iain Chisholm, originally from Walker...
Which one of you told me to ‘write some fiction’ after the Charlton game in December 2019? It was one of you. Anyway, over the past 18 months I’ve done just that, although ‘The Case of the Shot-shy Strikers,’ inspired by that particular game, didn’t make the final cut on this occasion. December...
The autobiography Vin Garbutt wrote in his final years has rocketed to number one in Amazon’s Biographies of Folk Musicians chart within 24 hours of its release in paperback and ebook versions on Monday (November 8).
Folk legend Vin, who was 69, passed away on June 6 2017 after undergoing heart...
After two years of only being able to provide a small covid safe family festival the North Yokshire music and comedy and so much else weekender is bouncing back in style next year - here is a list of the first acts to be confirmed.
"We are super excited to share with you our first music...
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...