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.
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…
The Dead City season 4 renewal question is hanging in the air after AMC stayed silent on the show’s future following the season 3 finale. As of 13 September, the network has not confirmed whether the series will return, according to Just Jared.Season 3 wrapped with its finale airing on Sunday, 13 September at 9pm ET/PT on AMC and AMC+. By all accounts it was a wild ride, taking Maggie and Negan through some genuinely strange territory across the greater New York City area. Now fans are left doing what they always do at the end of a season: waiting…
The Cosmopolitan NYFW party landed at Sloane’s during New York Fashion Week, pulling together a night of live music, dancing and a guest list that mixed fashion regulars with reality TV faces and rising names.The Venue and the Dress CodeThe party took place at Sloane’s, a cocktail bar on the second floor of The Manner on Thompson Street. Intimate is the word for it: not a vast venue with roped-off sections, but a close space where the crowd actually mingles. The dress code was billed as after-dark romance, and guests delivered, arriving in everything from fringed little black dresses to…
Chiron retrograde enters Aries on Thursday, 17 September, capping a three-day run of planetary shifts that rounds off several weeks of big celestial activity with something quieter and more inward-facing. Here is what Tuesday through Thursday brings, and what it means for each sign.The Three Key Dates: Neptune, Juno and Chiron Retrograde Enters AriesTuesday, 15 September: Neptune Retrograde in Aries forms a supportive sextile with Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius. This is a moment for seeing things clearly and pushing towards personal growth. Importantly, according to Cafe Astrology, this Neptune-Pluto sextile is not a one-off. It also occurred on 25 July…
Great North Run flooding disruption hit Gateshead on race day after a water main burst near the Redheugh Bridge, blocking parts of the A184 and forcing drivers and runners alike to contend with chaos on the approach roads. Northumbrian Water confirmed there was a “heavy burst on a water main”, with flooding spreading across the A189 Redheugh Bridge roundabout and several local roads.The A184 in Gateshead was partially blocked as a result, and roads in the surrounding area, including Askew Road, were also affected. Engineers were deployed to site to assess the situation as the disruption unfolded on one of…
The UK citizenship test questions are notoriously hard, hard enough that research suggests two-thirds of British nationals would not pass the very exam required of people applying to live here permanently. With a pass mark of 18 out of 24 and just 45 minutes on the clock, it trips up far more people than you might expect.The Life in the UK test is required for adults applying for indefinite leave to remain or naturalisation as a British citizen. It costs £50 per sitting and can be taken at one of 30 approved centres across the UK. Some people are exempt,…