Author: Graeme Pallister
Graeme Pallister
Graeme Pallister spent fifteen years in operations management across the North East before he started writing about the businesses that kept the region running. He came up through logistics at a mid-sized haulage firm on the Team Valley, moved into procurement at an engineering outfit near the Tyne, and ended up running supply chain for a renewables contractor during the offshore wind build-out. He left the corporate side in 2021 and started covering North East business because most of the people writing about it had never seen the inside of a Gateshead warehouse at six in the morning. He writes about manufacturing, construction, logistics, and the firms between the Tyne and the Tees that rarely make the nationals but employ half the region. Graeme lives in Jesmond with his wife and two lurchers. He thinks the phrase "levelling up" should have been retired in 2022, and that anybody who describes Newcastle as "up and coming" has not been paying attention.
Dancing With the Stars Season 35 kicked off on ABC on 15 September, and three weeks in, the leaderboard is taking shape, eliminations are mounting, and a couple of pairings are already pulling away from the pack.The full cast of 16 was announced on 2 September on Good Morning America. The line-up runs the usual gamut: Olympians, reality show veterans, actors with serious dance pedigrees, and a few complete beginners. Here is where every contestant stands.Who Has Already Been Eliminated From Dancing With the Stars Season 35Conner Leavitt, partnered with Adele Zaikman, was the first to go, sent home at…
The Slow Horses season 6 release is almost here: the first episode lands on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, and the six-episode run wraps up on 21 October. Here’s everything you need to know before it drops.When and how to watch Slow Horses season 6Apple TV+ follows a weekly release model, so no bingeing the lot in one go. A new episode of Slow Horses arrives each Wednesday from 16 September through to the finale on 21 October. Episodes go live at midnight ET, though Apple TV+ sometimes makes them available from 9pm ET the night before, so…
The Target fashion week bag has become a fixture on the streets of New York City during the shows, and three fashion insiders have opened theirs up to reveal exactly what they’re working with. From K-beauty lip stains to prebiotic iced tea, the picks are practical, affordable and built for the non-stop grind of event-to-event dressing. The Target Fashion Week Bag: Three Insiders, Three Formulas Stylist Alexandra Ballard is keeping her skin sorted between shows with the MIXIK Matcha Milk PDRN Soothing Mist ($29), a dual-layer formula designed to calm and moisturise. For energy on the move, she carries a…
Michael Mills Newcastle winger is firmly in contention for his first senior call-up after being spotted pitchside at Elland Road during Monday’s 4-1 Premier League defeat to Leeds United, with a place in the squad for this weekend’s home fixture against Hull now a genuine possibility.Mills was not named in the matchday squad for the Leeds game, but his presence on the pitch during the warm-up was hard to miss. Newcastle captain Dan Burn, who made the trip despite being ruled out through injury, emerged alongside the teenage winger and the pair spent around five minutes talking on the halfway…
Helene Wilson vision treatment is set to change life for the 59-year-old Consett volunteer, who has been awarded free vision correction at Optegra’s Gateshead clinic after her neighbour put her forward as a local hero for decades of charitable work in the town.Wilson’s nomination centred on a long record of community service: supporting the Royal British Legion, volunteering with the Building Self Belief charity, fundraising for the Project Linus scheme which provides quilts to children who are ill or in distress, and playing a key role in securing funding for the memorial honouring Consett’s steelworkers. Her neighbour submitted the nomination.…
The Taylor Swift Travis Kelce wedding is set for 3 July at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and right now the pair are enjoying every moment of their newlywed phase, including Swift turning up at Arrowhead Stadium for the Chiefs’ first home game of the season draped in a red checkered dress from Gigi Hadid’s brand, Guest in Residence.The Arrowhead AppearanceSwift arrived at the stadium dressed firmly on theme for the occasion, the red gingham polo dress doing most of the talking. The exact colourway has since sold out, though the same Guest in Residence Gingham Polo Dress…
The Pitt season 3 is already in production, and HBO is wasting no time getting back to Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. With 25 Emmy nominations heading into the 2026 ceremony and a cast shake-up already confirmed, there is plenty to catch up on before the show returns.When Does The Pitt Season 3 Arrive?No official premiere date has been confirmed, but the signs point firmly towards January 2027. Season 1 launched on 9 January 2025, season 2 followed on 8 January 2026, and production on season 3 began in mid-June 2026, matching the timeline of the previous run. Put that together…
Sparkling jam scents are the fall fragrance story worth paying attention to: berry-forward perfumes built around black currant, raspberry, blackberry, strawberry, and plum, sharpened with zingy notes like bergamot, champagne, chili pepper, and violet leaf that make them feel effervescent rather than sticky sweet.If your gut reaction to ‘fruity fragrance’ is to back away slowly, you’re not alone. But something has shifted this season. A wave of new launches has reframed what berry-based scents can do, and the results sit closer to a fresh, sparkling preserve than to the cloying body mists of secondary school lockers.Why Sparkling Jam Scents Fall…
From 20 September 2026, cross-operator ticket acceptance becomes a right for all rail passengers in England whose trains are cancelled, with four more operators joining the scheme this weekend, the Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed. That includes Northern, which covers much of the network serving Newcastle and the wider Northeast.Under the new rule, anyone holding a valid ticket for a cancelled service can board a different operator’s train departing within two hours before or after their original service, on a direct or reasonable alternative route, at no extra cost. Passengers show their original ticket to staff on the new…
The big question heading into Newcastle United’s Premier League trip to Leeds is whether Matias Fernandez-Pardo’s first start finally arrives at Elland Road on Monday night. The £51m deadline-day arrival has not been fit enough to start for his new club yet, according to the Yorkshire Evening Post, and every one of our writers has a different take on whether Matthias Jaissle pulls the trigger tonight.Newcastle head to West Yorkshire unbeaten in five league and cup games. It is a decent early run, but Elland Road will be a real examination of what Jaissle is building. The head coach kept…