Tomorrow’s The Northern Echo front page as Gavin Engelbrecht speaks exclusively to Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves during a visit to Hitachi as she vows to do all she can to stop the factory from ‘becoming a government wreckage’ #TomorrowsPapersToday #backontrack

The“Back on Track” campaign to bring the Hitachi factory to Newton Aycliffe is one of the most proud, and most successful, campaigns The Northern Echo has been involved in

As Chris Lloyd explains, this cannot be the end of the line.

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The sun's out, the daffodils are blooming, and there's a 44-page spring special edition of Memories in The Northern Echo tomorrow. It's all about parks, pants and tittybottles, as you'd expect

We get all the big names in our village. Chris Lloyd always interesting and entertaining. And refreshments too!

A lot of reading matter before I join the paper review on this morning’s BBCR4 Broadcasting House.

A superb article by the hugely knowledgeable Chris Lloyd about the James Backhouse #snowdrops - you can see them tomorrow and Sunday between 11:00 and 3:00 at Tudor, Croft, Guisborough #Galanthophile

Your weekend The Northern Echo 🗞️

🦷55,000 lose NHS dental care in County Durham in last 10 months Bill Edgar

🩺Dr Amir Khan GP on life away from the surgery

📜Echo Memories Chris Lloyd

⚽️ #NUFC #SAFC & #Boro previews Scott Wilson Dominic Shaw

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A lurid pink cloud tonight in Croft-on-Tees. An ice cloud, apparently, or the end of the world.

Or you can see it in style at Arts Centre Washington's proper cinema on the 14th of this month (link below for tickets).

And it's being screened around the region next year - we'll let you know more dates and things when we have it all in one place.

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Talking Pigeons 😅

44-page railways special edition of Memories in The Northern Echo today, celebrating amazing viaducts and some gruesome deaths. Rush out and buy hundreds of copies, please

The James Cleverly controversy over Stockton North reminds me of the time, 10 years ago, when Michael Gove said he could 'smell the stench of defeatism' in east Durham schools. Turned out he'd never been to any. This was The Northern Echo's front page in response

A joy to be in the presence of A Certain Ratio after all these years at the Sage in Gateshead.

The #Darlington school with pupils from 28 countries. The lessons in kindness, diversity & tolerance we can all learn from Corporation Road Community Primary where teachers do so much more than teach. My latest column for The Northern Echo Lingfield Education Trust
thenorthernecho.co.uk/opinion/239213…

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💔'Maya didn't deserve to die' - man guilty of murdering partner's toddler Graeme Hetherington

🎖️Remembered at last - The 200+ Darlingtonians who gave their lives Chris Lloyd

⚽️ #NUFC #SAFC & #Boro previews from Scott Wilson & Dominic Shaw

Mary Richardson's first blow broke the “anti-suffragette glass” covering the Rockeby Venus by Velázquez & slashed it five times National Gallery in 1914 Chris Lloyd in 2018 including how The Northern Echo covered it. Today Just Stop Oil smashed glass thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/163500…

🗣️'The flame of steelmaking on Teesside is burning bright again'

Could British Steel’s plans for a new electric arc furnace usher in a new era of steelmaking in the North East?

Reaction and analysis in tomorrow's The Northern Echo 🗞️

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Great to hear more local history stories from Chris Lloyd this morning. I need to use the phrase Vortex of Temptation in daily life. 😄

All set for his talk on the history of the building that’s become the new home of Darlington Building Society’s new flagship branch on High Row in #Darlington . Chris Lloyd starts in the covered market at 11am. Come on down!

To mark the opening of Darlington Building Society's new Darlington branch, the brilliant Chris Lloyd will be giving an amusing,historical, ghostly talk in the covered market at 11am on Thursday. It's free to anyone to watch so please pop in if you are in town Darlington BS