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Editor of The Journal and the Northern Agenda newsletter
Always a great night at the North East Culture Awards
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
After Labour's election victories last year, we urged them to deliver for the North East in four key areas. A year on, we give our verdict on their work so far #TomorrowsPapersToday
July 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
We've launched a new newsletter that brings together all the news you need to know from around Newcastle. It also has a community noticeboard for people to publicise their events (and it's FREE).

You can find out more and subscribe at thenewcastledrop.substack.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:52 AM
This makes me so happy. The Brian Eno anecdote is honestly one of the best things I've ever read www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘People in the scene would sometimes be mean to us. They’d forget we were teenagers’: Daphne and Celeste look back
The 00s pop pair on their enduring sisterhood, an embarrassing encounter with Brian Eno, and somehow ending up on a tour of the UK’s Asda supermarkets
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A good - if especially nerve-racking - weekend for North East football fans - and on the front of tomorrow's Journal #TomorrowsPapersToday
May 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Great news for the North East as the Mercury Prize comes to Newcastle - the first time it has been held outside London #TomorrowsPapersToday
May 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Efforts by the North East mayor to help families with the cost of childcare + child poverty campaigners calling for Government action make the front of tomorrow's Journal #TomorrowsPapersToday
May 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A seismic day in North East politics - on the front of tomorrow's Journal #TomorrowsPapersToday
May 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
More dramatic evidence in the Sycamore Gap trial leads tomorrow's Journal #TomorrowsPapersToday
April 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The start of the trial of two men accused of chopping down the tree at Sycamore Gap leads tomorrow's Journal #TomorrowsPapersToday
April 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Positive news for commuters leads tomorrow's Journal Story by @danhollandnews.bsky.social #TomorrowsPapersToday
April 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Happy 10th anniversary to the greatest political photograph of all time
April 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
An amazing celebration for Newcastle United's Carabao Cup win is on the front of tomorrow's Journal - with a 16-page pull-out inside #TomorrowsPapersToday
March 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A crisis in the region's schools leads tomorrow's Journal #TomorrowsPapersToday
March 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Shocking figures outlining the impact of the Government's planned welfare cuts make the front of tomorrow's Journal #TomorrowsPapersToday
March 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
No Journal front page tonight - for reasons that will become clear in the morning...!
March 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
A bid to drive up school standards in the North East makes the front of tomorrow's Journal #TomorrowsPapersToday
March 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
At the start of each month I like to round up the best Journal stories from the month just gone..
March 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
How's everyone feeling this morning?
February 6, 2025 at 7:32 AM
A pretty positive Journal front page tonight: hundreds of jobs, plans for a £16m rooftop bar and...WEM-BER-LEY! ⚽️⚽️#TomorrowsPapersToday
February 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Education, crime, heritage and ski-ing on the front of tomorrow's @TheJournalNews ...oh, and a BIG BLOODY TOON WIN! #tomorrowspaperstoday
January 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Woman next to me on the bus has never watched Gavin and Stacey, says she doesn't plan to, so asks her mate what happened in the end.

"There's a fat lass in it, isn't there?" she says, and then a bit later: "There's a fat lad too, is that right?"
January 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Kenickie on Top of the Pops - splendid (and only 28 Yeats ago…)
January 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Someone has dropped a sourdough near my house and it’s been left on a garden wall like people do when kids drop gloves, toys, etc #peakgosforth
December 19, 2024 at 9:59 AM
We currently have one Christmas card in our house. It is from the Indian takeaway
December 17, 2024 at 10:23 AM