Artists Jane Gower, Omi Pharncote and Jenny Purrett connect with the landscape – and each other – for a fabulous new exhibition, which you can see at The Gallery in Gateshead Central Library. This pic shows Jenny Gower and Omi Pharncote working on a drawi…

Alice Chadwick’s debut novel shares some of the same DNA as Jon McGregor’s ‘Reservoir 13’. In McGregor’s Costa award winning book, a teenage girl goes missing in the hills somewhere in the heart of England. Villagers join in the search, but just as reader…

Who better to headline a brand new comedy night in North Shields than one of the hottest stand-ups working today: Jen Brister. The last time I saw Jen Brister live she had a bit about children’s playgrounds – the sheer boredom of them, especially for the …