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 Met Office has issued an El Niño UK storms warning, telling the public to expect wetter and stormier conditions through autumn and into early winter as a result of what forecasters are calling the most intense El Niño signal in modern records.El Niño is declared when sea temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific rise 0.5C above the long-term average, disrupting global rainfall patterns and pushing up average temperatures. This year’s event is forecast to see that warming exceed 3C in the coming months, which the Met Office says would make it the largest El Niño since the 19th century.El…
The Hayden Panettiere Neutrogena contract dispute has resurfaced sharply following Panettiere’s death, with fans calling for a boycott of the beauty brand after her claims that it dropped her for speaking openly about postpartum depression (PPD).Panettiere died on 17 August. According to ABC News, she was in cardiac arrest when authorities arrived at a residence in South Carolina. The Greenville City Police Department is investigating her death and has been assisted by the Drug Enforcement Administration.A Decade-Long Partnership That Ended BadlyPanettiere began working with Neutrogena in the mid-2000s, while she was still a teenager. She continued as an ambassador for…
Post Malone and Christy Lee are engaged, with the couple quietly getting the question asked and answered in Utah on Tuesday, 19 August 2025, after a relationship that has had its share of stops and starts. And that ring? Jewellery experts reckon it could be worth up to $3.4 million. How Post Malone and Christy Lee got here The pair were first linked in early 2025. TMZ reported that Post Malone and Christy Lee were spotted in Rome in January 2025, and Gabriel NY notes they were also seen together in Paris around the same period. A fan then caught…
The Great Wealth Transfer: How Families Can Prepare the Next Generation for Inherited Wealth A substantial amount of wealth is expected to move between generations in the UK over the coming decades. Property, investments, pensions and other assets accumulated by older generations will increasingly pass to children and grandchildren, either through inheritance or through gifts made during their lifetime. The figures involved are significant. Research from the Resolution Foundation has estimated that the annual value of inheritances could double over a 20-year period as the baby-boomer generation moves further into retirement. But transferring wealth successfully involves more than deciding who…
Joseph Zada and Polly Talarico have been quietly dating for a while, and if you had not clocked it yet, you are far from alone. Zada keeps his personal life close, and Talarico is, if anything, even more private. Who Is Joseph Zada’s Girlfriend Polly Talarico? According to fan accounts, Joseph Zada and Polly Talarico have been together for some time, though neither has made any kind of formal announcement. What fans have pieced together comes mostly from Instagram Stories, usually posted without tags, where the pair occasionally share pictures of each other. Talarico has been spotted on the set…
The Met Office thunderstorm warning covering the North East has been revised this morning, shrinking the affected zone, but if you’re in Darlington or Teesside, you’re still on alert until 1pm today.Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland have all been removed from the warning area following an update. The five areas that remain covered are Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees.What the Met Office thunderstorm warning means for youThe Met Office states: ‘Heavy showers and some thunderstorms are expected to continue across northern England and north Wales this morning before easing this afternoon. These…
The Harry and Meghan UK move is happening within weeks, and the royal family reportedly found out the same way the rest of the world did: through the American press. According to People, which broke the story, Prince William was fully ‘blindsided’ by the news that his estranged brother and Meghan are returning to Britain. The couple plan to relocate from the US later this month, according to BBC News, settling into a private, non-royal residence outside London. The move is not a full break from their American life. People reports they will keep their home in Montecito, California and…
The best red nail polishes are not hard to find, they are hard to narrow down. Warm tomato, deep burgundy, bright cherry, translucent jelly: red covers serious ground, and picking the wrong one for your vibe or skin tone can take a great manicure and flatten it. Cosmopolitan beauty editor Jasmine Hyman tested a stack of reds and consulted nail artists John Avery and Ramon Duran to identify the picks that actually deliver. Here is what they rate.The Best Red Nail Polishes You Need to Know AboutOPI Big Apple Red is the consensus number one. Avery is unambiguous: ‘This is…
Queen Camilla has spoken candidly about the Camilla King Charles cancer secret she was forced to carry alone in January 2024, revealing the emotional strain of visiting a cancer support centre while her husband’s diagnosis had not yet been made public. The moment, she said, was almost unbearable to stay silent through.The comments came as Camilla, 79, marked the 30th anniversary of cancer charity Maggie’s in conversation with Dame Laura Lee, the charity’s chief executive. The timing was pointed: back in January 2024, Camilla had opened the new Maggie’s Cancer Support Centre at the Royal Free Hospital in London while…
Three members of a family have died and a young girl remains in a critical condition in hospital after the Shoreham Fort family drowning off the Sussex coast on Tuesday afternoon. People has identified the three who died as Hassan El-Khawas, 55, his partner Zeina Alayn, 37, and their 14-year-old daughter Sara El-Khawas, all confirmed dead at the scene.Emergency services were called at around 2.40pm to reports of four people in difficulty in the water close to Shoreham Fort in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. Multiple ambulances and two air ambulances were deployed to the beach near the RNLI station. Al Jazeera…