North East News

This week saw schools closed, or at least operating reduced classes, across County Durham as over 1000 teaching assistants went on strike. TAs from...

Schools across County Durham are to be hit by industrial action staged by teaching assistants. On 8th and 9th November, teaching asisstants belonging to...

Yesterday the home secretary Amber Rudd announced that there would be no statutory enquiry or independent review into the infamous ‘Battle of Orgreave’. The...

Japanese car giant Nissan has announced that it intends to keep its Sunderland plant open. And the company has also revealed that it is...

Last week, this magazine reported that County Durham’s teaching assistants who belong to the Unison trade union had voted to strike. Now the members...

Having to talk to robots when you ring up the tax office, the increasing number of self-service tills in shops – have you ever...

Durham County Council is to offer its teaching assistants a ‘final deal’ in a bid to end a long-running dispute over new contracts. The...

The planning is done, the training is over, the big day for Team GB Para Olympians has arrived. The 2016 Para Olympic Games starts with...

Many youngsters are simply not academic, that is not to say they are lacking in intelligence because learning styles are different across the population....

Of course the Roman history of Britain is well recorded in the many books written about the period and there is graphic evidence all...