Support Local in 2020
Support local this Christmas and discover some brilliant local businesses right here across the Tees.
Read more in our special Christmas 2020 section here
Can our High Streets survive? Meet the humans breathing life into them!
Meet the people behind the High Street. Covid-19 has had a devastating impact on our High Street, particularly with our independent and local businesses; so over the coming few weeks, The Tees will be featuring local campaigns and ideas of people fighting back, trying...
Covid – the impact on students
March 20th is a date that will be remembered by hundreds of teenagers across Teesside; for many it marked the start of the toughest six months of their lives. Current GCSE and A level students were affected massively by the national lockdown which saw the closure of...
Our independent retailers need your support!
Covid-19 has had a devastating impact on our High Street, particularly with our independent and local businesses; so over the coming few weeks, The Tees will be featuring local campaigns and ideas of people fighting back, trying support this sector at these very...
The Joys of ‘Patch Birding’
This month I am going to share with you some of the joy I get from bird-watching (or birding as we tend to call it these days) on my local patch – a scrap of grassland, wetland and woods along a 1-mile stretch of Ormesby Beck in Middlesbrough – by describing a typical...
Beaten with sticks – it’s time to end violence against women
Hit and beaten with sticks, treated more like an animal than a human, Sarah was the first woman we ever worked with at A Way Out, the charity I founded in my 20s. Sarah was 7 stone, if that, skin and bones, very little hair and the biggest personality you’d ever come...
Students launch business to spread Christmas joy
Enterprising Middlesbrough College students have launched a business producing Christmas hampers for vulnerable locals who can’t leave the house. Enterprising Middlesbrough College students have launched a business producing Christmas hampers for vulnerable locals who...
Mark William Evans – We Are One(Interview)
Debut single from ex-Young Rebel Set guitarist, Mark William Evans. Mark speaks to us about the tracks origin and the music video dedicated to a friend 🙏 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQEyKyi4qFM&feature=youtu.be Article and Video by Simon ShawThe Tees...
J.P Riggall – Hotel Wilderness (album interview)
We had garden coffee with host J.P. Riggall. We chatted about his new album Hotel Wilderness which is out now and deep dove into the creative process https://youtu.be/GsE12vYxs8k Article and Video by Simon ShawThe Tees Music Editor Do you have a story, something to...
Invisible Disabilities
Helen Jaques is the manager of MAIN, a Tees-based charity. MAIN helps people who live with a range of disabilities, by giving them the skills they need to live an independent life, while having fun and making friends. MAIN works with children and adults, parents,...
Transgender Day of Remembrance
November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance: a day when we come together to remember our trans brothers and sisters who lost their lives because of their gender identity. I realised that I was transgender when I was in my final year of school. If it wasn’t for my...
‘That Sounds Like Stevie!’
“Little lads from the back streets of Hartlepool don’t write books, do they?” That Sounds Like Stevie! is a music anthology/discography with an unusual twist. Not content with celebrating Stevie Wonder's published music, dedicated fan and archivist Teesside-born Mick...
Cis is not a slur…
Why we shouldn’t be offended by the term ‘cis people’... Rowan doesn’t identify as being male or female. Here’s their story and a few thoughts for people to consider… Hi, my name is Rowan and I’m a non-binary trans person. It says female on my birth certificate but I...
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