Daily Teessider

Shooting Time – Ian Macdonald
Hambleton Forum Cinema
Sat, 24 Sep
18:30
Ian Macdonald is an internationally acclaimed photographer who has photographed the people and places of Teeside for the past 40 years. […]

The company that makes the popular tabletop fantasy game Warhammer 40,000 issued a profit warning this morning after a decline in sales. Games Workshop, which also makes the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game, said that sales fell by 4 per cent in the six months to the end of November. The company added [...]

Next said today that the outlook for 2011 was “uncertain” following the increase in VAT and the rising cost of making its goods, as it reported a fall in sales because of the snowy weather in the run-up to Christmas. The high street retailer will go ahead with plans to raise its prices by 8 [...]

Archibald Primary School on Barnaby Avenue in Middlesbrough remained closed today wed jan 5 because it has no central heating. It is hoped the school will reopen tomorrow. Ellen Brannigan a parent’s support supervisor said: “The gas board came out yesterday and hopefully we’ll get it back on today.” Prince Bishop School on Saltersgill Avenue [...]

A drunken man wearing fishnet stockings saw in the New Year by carrying out a sex act in front of a woman. Police are appealing for information after the bizarre incident in Eston in the early hours of New Year’s Day. It happened as a lone female was returning home from a friend’s house in [...]

People in neighbourhoods where whole streets stand ready for demolition, have been told it will be at least four years before the work is complete. Plans to demolish 1,500 homes in central Middlesbrough were drawn up more than five years ago, and dozens of families have since been moved out. The councillor responsible for regeneration [...]

A SHOCKING number of women are risking sexual infection by relying on the morning-after pill as their regular contraception. Research found 250,000 UK women aged 18 to 35 took the emergency pill to prevent unwanted pregnancy three times or more in 2010 and one in five took it once. Experts fear many wrongly believe it [...]

This short film by Jamie Stuart references Dziga Vertov’s 1929 silent film Man With a Movie Camera. Taken from photos of the blizzard this week, it’s a perfect homage to the 1929 classic

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Pomplamoose, a couple who make music videos (and music) from their home. Pomplamoose is an American indie music duo consisting of multi-instrumentalists Jack Conte and Natalie Dawn Knutsen (who performs under the name Nataly Dawn). The band was formed in the summer of 2008 in San Francisco Bay Area. The duo sold approximately 100,000 songs online [...]

Woodhorn Museum’s exhibition shows forty images from photographer John Bulmer’s lifetime in photo-journalism. The photographs cover a range of subjects, reflecting life for working men and women in the North of England. The iconic images strike a chord with many who lived through this period, but also open up new dialogues with a younger…[Read more]

This week staff at RSPB  Saltholme, Teesside’s nature reserve uncovered a group of roosting long-eared owls which are normally secretive and nocturnal.  They’re a bit off the beaten track and shouldn’t  really  disturbed so staff are keeping their whereabouts a bit of a secret.   You can get close views of them, though – just ask [...]