More gold from David Whetstone ...

I didn't even know of her work, I'm ashamed to admit Phil

"From Roker Park, the sensation that shook the world of football rigid," said the narrator in a terribly, terribly English accent. It's not just 'new' news that you get with Eyes & Ears you know... eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/eyes-and-ear…

Just one of the images selected by North East photographer Paul Alexander Knox for his feature 'My Life Through a Lens'., which is one of our gems from The QT Archives. The others are worth a look... eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

Quick-fire regional news round-up plus Gazza, SEND crisis, a Tonali cartoon and, who remembers the Cinzano ads with Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter? eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/eyes-and-ear…

Dementia is something that many of us encounter. This is a moving account of how it can impact a family, done with the delicate light-touch of an outstanding writer with first-hand experience. eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social

Anyone had problems with Substack and found they're crap at dealing with it? All roads lead to a Chatbot. And when it escalates the issue you're told that only financial issues are dealt with 'in a timely manner' Meanwhile I have subscribers they aren't sending my words to

Recommended read from former BBC editor Jacqui Hodgson eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

Start with some volcanic just, add a Durham graduate and some 'field work' from Newcastle University, and you have a cheap way to increase crop yields by 20%, suck carbon out of the atmosphere - and has just won a $5m award. eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/publish/posts/…

This is now one years old but it's aged really well. Jeff Brown in conversation with simon rushworth. It's just a glorious read eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

'What the hell just happened?' is not just our Eurovision song contest entry, it's the starting point for a great piece of analysis on the council elections from Bob Hudson eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/can-labour-r…

For those of you fortunate enough to be uninformed about the care system can I make it clear that without ‘immigrants’ it would collapse. Certainly Liam’s care would. And there isn’t a queue of Brits outside waiting to take their place.

The classic TV ads are proving a very popular part of my weekly regional news digest. Slightly confused that, of the many people who clicked to see the Tudor crisps ad from the 70s, 5 didn't view the 80s follow-up eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/eyes-and-ear…

What do Lulu, George Best, Spike Milligan and Geoff Capes have in common? They all had cameos in Super Gran. Great piece of nostalgia from The QT archives here by Sam Wonfor: When Tyne Tees Television was Super-charged

The Hoppings of yesteryear - when you just HAD to go home with a coconut, as Tony Henderson remembers... eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

Ah, the heady scent of candy floss, wet straw, toffee apples, diesel generator fumes, burgers and fried onions, and chips with industrial lashings of salt and vinegar. This was the evocative smell of The Hoppings, as Tony Henderson remembers here: eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

Michael Chaplin is such a genius with words. Sit back and enjoy his story-telling skills as he looks through his collection of walking sticks! eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

A lot of interest this week in Jeff Winn's £20m home that used to be La Sagesse school - but the most viewed link in Eyes & Ears is a TV ad from 2003 eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/eyes-and-ear…

"Ash, it turns out, is as much on my father’s mind as it is on his carpet"