Seems appropriate to say this today - somewhere on the Sgt Pepper cover is a Newcastle United striker who signed for Liverpool.
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Politicised headlines, the cost of NOT dualling the A1, 25 years of Life, our changing high streets, Run Geordie Run's mean feet, Greggs sausage rolls become a cultural icon - and RIP Sir Ian Gibson.
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How do you write a wonderful and engaging story about your collection of walking sticks? Michael Chaplin shows us how...
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Who remembers Tudor crisps? Would you have climbed a mountain for them? Great bit of nostalgia in this week's Eyes & Ears: eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/eyes-and-e...

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/post...

Now this is worth five minutes of anyone's time... a cracking read from former BBC editor @jacquih.bsky.social
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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.
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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?
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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-q...

My five minute round-up of regional news and a few other bits and bobs: eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/eyes-and-e...

"From Roker Park, the sensation that shook the world of football rigid," said the narrator in a terribly, terribly English accent.
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Why did Queen Victoria insist on having the curtains closed when the royal train travelled through Newcastle? Michael Chaplin will tell you in this wonderful long read from The QT Vaults.
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Everything you need to know, in one place, once a week. This week's Eyes & Ears includes academies, Dylan covers, university numbers, boost for business, cyber attacks, hospital beds and rats under the bonnet.
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