If you’re a fan on Reynholm Industries — maybe you know Roy, Maurice or Jen? — then you might be interested to learn that you too can obtain your very own Reynholm Industries ID card from their staff intranet. Obviously, you can only access this if you have a staff user account name and password [...]

Again, here’s a selection of odd news that you may not have encountered before. Oldham Couple Get Hundreds Of Calls From Rap Fans An Oldham couple in their fifties have been receiving loads of calls from fans of the 18-year old US rapper Soulja Boy… Thousands of music fans have been bombarding an Oldham family [...]

Now of all the actors who have played Doctor Who on the telly, the one who is my least favourite is Colin Baker. Generally, Colin and Sylvester McCoy are the ones named when people name their least favourite actor for Doctor Who, which is possibly a little unfair on them, because this is the time [...]

I am a Newcastle United fan. I have been a Newcastle United fan before I was even interested in football: during my childhood I remember a spell where I couldn’t stand football at all, but was still absolutely convinced that if I was going to support a football team, it would be Newcastle, because that’s [...]

So there I was, wandering out for a drink one evening with a good mate of mine. I was due to meet him at a pub on Newcastle’s Quayside called ‘The Akenside’, only as I approached, I noticed something was going on outside. A gentleman on a bicycle was handing out fruit, and people were [...]

I was glancing at my TBR pile and discovered that it has crept up on me somewhat: instead of having one or two books ‘in reserve’, I’ve currently got quite a collection of ‘em. So I thought, apropos of not much at all, I’d share with you the books on my list… I plan to [...]

Just a few shorts here, none of which are really worthy of a blog post in their own right, but I thought that if I stuck three of them together it might just about pass muster. So here goes. Pointless Twittery Thing #1: Cursebird Yes, thanks to Cursebird you can now see exactly how much [...]

So I went to an ‘author event’ at Newcastle City Library the other day. It was the first time I had been to the library since it had been considerably redeveloped, and I must say — particularly in contrast to the Hancock — how impressed I was with the whole thing. Admittedly, the key element [...]

A couple of stories from BBC News relating to the North East that I want to share with you, and I’m looking for audience participation here. I’m going to describe the details, provide a link to the relevant news story, and ask you, my loyal and humbly devoted readers, to decide whether, in your opinion, [...]

After discussing the merits of the comic 2000AD on twitter last week with James Cousins and Tim Ireland, I was thinking about how 2000 AD has changed since the early days. Originally, when I started reading it — the first issue I can remember reading is issue 316, featuring the Judge Dredd story “The Stupid [...]