Topsyturvydom (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Reading this obituary took me back thirty odd years to a lecture theatre in a brutalist concrete building in Leeds. The first year English students were being lectured about accent and dialect by the great Stanley Ellis. He asked one of our number, picked at random, to say a few words. He'd chosen Bob McNally, a lad whose accent to the rest of us was just "Geordie". Stanley had other ideas....
BBC News (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Travellers cheques and foreign currency are stolen during a burglary at a travel agency in Tyne and Wear.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Leading authority on dialects and a pioneer of the forensic analysis of voice recordings Stanley Ellis, who has died aged 83, was an authority on English dialects, a pioneer of the forensic analysis of voice recordings and a radio broadcaster whose programmes brought dialectology to life through illuminating discussions with locals about folklore and language. He came to national prominence when he...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Police make arrests over the theft of cable from the Tyne and Wear Metro network.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The direct inspiration for Poems on the Underground was the sequence of Thames-side poems engraved in the pavement between Westminster Bridge and Waterloo Bridge for the Festival of Britain ( Letters , 10 November). Much earlier, from 1908 onwards, London Transport included familiar lines by Shakespeare, Shelley, Keats and Tennyson in posters promoting travel to parks and suburbs. We've never claimed...
Conservative Future (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
By Elaine Bamford (AC Tyne and Wear & Northumberland) On Saturday 7th November, Conservative Future members from branches across Northumberland & Tyne and Wear joined local PPCs, members and activists on a 7am battle bus to travel up to the Glasgow North-East By-Election. In total, we managed to help deliver more than 10,000 leaflets for the Conservative candidate Ruth Davidson. You can view...
The View From North Central Idaho (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
I was reading this article : Caroline Cartwright, 48, claims that she is unable to stop the loud shouting and screaming she makes during lovemaking with her husband Steve. After neighbours, the local postman and a woman taking her child to school complained about the noise, the Cartwrights were hit with a noise abatement notice. However, when Mrs Cartwright was convicted of breaching the notice, magistrates...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
A woman from Tyne and Wear loses her appeal against a conviction for having "loud and unnatural sex" which disturbed her neighbours.
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
'Hysterical, almost continuous, screaming' from pair in Tyne and Wear during love-making made life hell for those living nearby.
dooyoo newest opinions in UK / Irel (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
a new opinion on www.dooyoo.co.uk about Ravensdene Lodge Hotel (Gateshead) written by bluejules The Ravensdene Lodge hotel is located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear abour 5 minutes from Newcastle and the metro centre. My cousin had her 21st birthday party at this hotel earlier this month. As my dad was setting up a screen to take photos of the ...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Business process services outsourcer Genpact Ltd. said on Wednesday that its third-quarter profit fell slightly from a year ago as competitive pricing continued. But it upheld its full-year revenue guidance, and its shares rose. The company said it earned $... Business - Genpact - Business Services - Tyne and Wear - Low Fell
News-Insurances (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
The Met Office has issued a weather warning for : London, South East England, Yorkshire & Humber, North East England and East Midlands. heavy rain is expected from 1617 Wed 21 Oct to 0300 Wed 22 Oct. Local areas affected: Lincolnshire, Durham (Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Northumberland, Redcar + Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees,Tyne + Wear), Medway and Kent. Persistent and [...]
New Northumbria (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
At its height the Kingdom of Northumbria was the most powerful nation in the British Isles, before England or Scotland even existed. At its peak it stretched from Humberside in the South to the river Forth in the North. The Scottish capital city of Edinburgh is named after one of the great Northumbrian Kings, Edwin (Edwin-burgh) While London was an underdeveloped, backward city in the middle of a marsh,...
HPANWO (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Richard D Hall Not in This House! http://www.richplanet.net/ Richard D Hall is a tall, slightly gothic looking Geordie with a background in electronic engineering. Unlike most UFOlogists he has no interest at all in any other paranormal phenomenon. In fact he denies that the UFO phenomenon is paranormal at all. This would make him more of an exopolitician than a UFOlogist; in other words, somebody...
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Your Family Tree:- Merseyside Maritime Museum Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4AQ w. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk The MMM holds records of Liverpool and the surrounding area's shipping, trade and emigration Tyne and Wear Museums Service Blandford House, Blandford Square, Newcastle...Read More
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