- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- GPs 'over-paid for ghost patients'
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- Tributes to 'jolly jester' Carson
- 'MP' held after Commons disturbance
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
Music
Martin’s back on home turf
THE Renowned Martin Stephenson has teamed up with The Daintees again and have announced a UK tour performing their acclaimed and most celebrated album, Boat To Bolivia, in its entirety, 26 years since its debut.
Review: Field Music, The Cluny, Newcastle
IT’S TESTAMENT to the talents of Field Music that an extra night had to be added to the Newcastle leg of their Plumb tour to quell the public’s appetite for their sound.
Review: Kaiser Chiefs, 02 Academy, Newcastle
ENERGISING guitars, climbing on bars and na-na-na-na-nas were the order of the day as the Kaiser Chiefs brought their brand of punky-indie-rocky-type stuff to the O2 Academy.
Nothing beats live music!
Nic Wright brings us the monthly local music column from The Bunker studios in Stockton Road, Sunderland.
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Storm is coming
FROM struggling uni band to international big-hitters, Snow Patrol are ready for the latest part of their journey. Ian Laws spoke to drummer Jonny Quinn.
Cinema
Unlocking the cage
He’s been called an oddball thanks to his fearless choice of film roles. However, Nicolas Cage tells Susan Griffin that playing characters such as a motorbike-riding henchman of the Devil actually clears his head.
Review: Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengence 3D (12A)
NICOLAS Cage reprises his role as a motorcycle rider condemned to do the Devil’s bidding in this action-driven sequel directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.
Review: A Dangerous Method
LET’S talk about sex.
Screenwriter Christopher Hampton does so with arch detachment in A Dangerous Method, an artfully-composed portrait of intellectual one-upmanship adapted from his 2002 stage play, The Talking Cure.
Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
PUBLISHED in 2005, Jonathan Safran Foer’s second novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close revisited the deadliest act of terrorism committed on American soil through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy.
Review: The Vow (12)
Leo (Channing Tatum) glimpses Paige (Rachel McAdams) in a queue and flirts with her, using his charm and good looks to secure a memorable first date.
Gaming
GAME REVIEW: Rayman Origins the perfect playground
PLAYING online is a wonder of modern gaming, but there’s nothing like getting a couple of pals huddled around a console and enjoying the immediacy of tackling a platformer such as Rayman Origins together.
Seen In The City
We loved to rock the Boathouse
DURHAM, a quiet, picturesque, middle-class city – that is until the lights go out!
Dragon Bannatyne was more like a pussy cat!
THE launch of the North East’s latest modelling agency was enough to lure dragon Duncan Bannatyne out of his den.
Knickers to the price – lingerie has wow factor
THERE’S nothing like the promise of champagne and male models to coax us out of the house on a sub-zero February night.
Rocked by music outfits
AS my partner in crime Katy is enjoying a two-week trip to Korea, I’ve been drafting in my other friends to take her place on weekly nights out in and around Sunderland.
Eating out
Review: Eataly, Derwent Street, Sunderland
IN a city where Italian restaurants are ten-a-penny I was somewhat trepidatious about how another such place could compete for the pizza/pasta custom in Sunderland.
Review: Las Iguanas, Grey Street, Newcastle
A QUICK internet search for a phone number to book a table revealed one of Newcastle’s latest eateries is a staple in pretty much every city.
Review: DoZo, Highstreet West, Sunderland
IT doesn’t take long for word to get round when a new restaurant opens in Sunderland and Do Zo on High Street West, formerly My Legends, is no exception.
Review: Blackfriars, Friars Street, Newcastle
LET’S cut straight to the chase, Blackfriars is expensive.
Theatre
‘A dream role’ for Stefan Booth
Theatre’s slinkiest and sexiest show is heading to Sunderland next month. Ahead of Chicago’s arrival, Katy Wheeler caught up with one its stars, Stefan Booth.
Review: Strictly Come Dancing, Newcastle Arena
I’VE never watched an episode of Strictly Come Dancing in my life.
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Thursday 23 February 2012
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