Was giving the people of Teesside their 6am news on the BBC when I saw @thatdavidharper.bsky.social appear on Good Morning Britain. Nowhere in the country safe from Flintshire journalists bringing you news at this time of day.
Leigh Jones
@leighsus.bsky.social
Freelance journalist. Investigations, writing, broadcast, newsreading, BBC Radio Newcastle etc Editor, The Teesside Lead 🔗 https://theteessidelead.substack.com Moby-Dick podcast: 🐳 @thewhale1851.bsky.social Teesworks expert. Oh, and once I saw a blimp.
Yep. Children are paying the price for this now, across the world.
Wonton Goodsoup@wontongoodsoup.bsky.social · 19h agoMelanie Phillips was *also* a big antivaxx booster during the andrew wakefield era. Just a real all rounder on being evil
Is it conspiracy-pilled to think the low level stuff - the sound on phones on public transport, the petty bureaucracy of parking fines - strikes a nerve because nobody has ever been held accountable for Covid-era failings and double standards?
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 19h agoFunny, that. "Hancock and pandemic-era PM Boris Johnson declined to comment when Playbook PM approached them. Conservative MP Jeremy Hunt, who served as health secretary between 2012 and 2018 and might have been expected to oversee pandemic preparedness, did not respond to a request to comment."
Editing this week's episode and within the first 120 seconds there are mentions of David Icke and Rory Stewart. We are simply a vector for the tastes of our listeners.
Very disappointing to see so many youth trashing and rampaging the streets of Paris. They could be working at Deloitte.
Reminder: I'm taking part in a Q&A about this film, the mass crab deaths of 2021 and the political fight afterwards at this screening at Stockton ARC on Saturday. 🎟️ arconline.co.uk/whats-on/all...
The Quietus@thequietus.com · yesterdayClaire Sawers talks to director Jeanie Finlay about her hard-hitting, emotionally resonant documentary about toxic pollution of UK waters, which doubles as love letter to the north east Fisherman’s Blues: The Damning Indictment cast by All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea buff.ly/3ABgj4F
Good morning and welcome to our latest editions of The Lead Local, which subscribers got to read first on Sunday. Starting in Teesside as @leighsus.bsky.social looks at the latest government intervention on TVCA's finances
Government inspection could cost TVCA hundreds of thousands
The legislation being used means TVCA has to foot the bill and pay the inspectors high daily fees
teesside.thelead.uk
I'll be taking part in a Q&A following a screening of this film at Stockton ARC this Saturday. I'm in the film for about 2 minutes but don't let that put you off. It's a brilliant story, wonderfully told. You can get tickets here: arconline.co.uk/whats-on/all...
All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea (12A) - ARC | Stockton Arts Centre
When a mysterious tidemark of poisoned crabs & lobsters devastates a small North East fishing town in England, veteran fisherman Stan Rennie’s life is transformed overnight. Faced with ambivalence fro...
arconline.co.uk
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 3d agoRead the full piece and subscribe to our free, twice-weekly newsletter on our website: www.thenerve.news/p/all-rivers...
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The next Post Office scandal? Meet the fishermen fighting an ecocide
On Teesside, maritime livelihoods are in crisis – and, as a powerful new documentary reveals, crews are sure the local freeport is to blame. Hannah Jane Parkinson reports. Plus, Ellen E Jones on five ...
thenerve.news
This right here is the power of Elon Musk to completely warp politics without *giving a penny* as a political donation Without X, Lowe would be a no hoper independent MP Instead he’s spreading ethnic cleansing chat to normies. Wild
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3d agoRupert Lowe of Restore Britain says the electoral success of his political party would "inevitably" lead to civil unrest and rioting. His argument is increasingly that civil conflict has become unavoidable + absolutely necessary (if still partly regrettable + somewhat to be blamed on opponents)
Happy 175th birthday to Moby-Dick! First published on this day in 1851 🐳🐳🐳
NEW: The government's inspection of TVCA will cost the troubled authority hundreds of thousands of pounds, according to the law that's being used to do it. Lead inspector Laura Shoaf will be paid £1,200 a day.
Government inspection could cost TVCA hundreds of thousands
The legislation being used means TVCA has to foot the bill and pay the inspectors high daily fees
teesside.thelead.uk
NEW: The government's inspection of TVCA will cost the troubled authority hundreds of thousands of pounds, according to the law that's being used to do it. Lead inspector Laura Shoaf will be paid £1,200 a day.
Government inspection could cost TVCA hundreds of thousands
The legislation being used means TVCA has to foot the bill and pay the inspectors high daily fees
teesside.thelead.uk
I only ever see this plant when I take the bins out at night and the whole experience brings me so much joy. It looks different every day and I love it.
If you are still on Musk's X, you are enabling his treachery.
Exclusive: Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine
SpaceX founder had publicly blamed president for chaos over restrictions, but sources say he initiated them
telegraph.co.uk
There isn't a good track record of combined authorities buying small regional airports. Tees Valley Combined Authority bought Teesside Airport and has loaned it £128m. Interest payments of £28m are as good as written off. The loans? Unlikely to ever be repaid.
Harry Harrison@hharrisonjourno.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority is set to buy Doncaster Sheffield Airport from the Peel Group, the LDRS has learnt today Big, big news in the reopening's future
Huge joy from absolutely smashing all of my silly little daily games today. Wordle 1,944 2/6 🟨⬛⬛🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
This is entirely at odds with the available evidence which suggests under diagnosis. We've done anti science stuff on vaccines and medicine, can we not do it on this, too.
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 6d agoWith much media coverage of a government report that ADHD and autism are being over-diagnosed, a claim which some experts have disputed, half of Britons now believe that the conditions are being over-diagnosed Over-diagnosed: 50% Under-diagnosed: 17% About right: 17% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
The chief exec of TVCA who oversaw all of the contentious business dealings at Teesworks was Julie Gilhespie. She had no public sector experience before joining TVCA and became its head a year after joining. She left at the end of 2024 with a £55k redundancy payment and £153k pension top-up.
Andy McDonald MP@andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social · 6d agoDisappointing Tees Valley CA needs yet another set of external inspectors to sort its problems out. I feel sorry for the current team of officers doing their professional best to turn around the mess they inherited but Lord Houchen and the former Chief Exec should hang their heads in shame.
🐳 EPISODE 32 🐳 Herman Melville and Karl Marx were temporal contemporaries, describing the same changes in the world through their work. Only one was horny, though. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts from. 🐋 www.patreon.com/posts/172339...
The government is going to investigate the financial governance of Tees Valley Combined Authority. It comes three years after the Conservatives launched a review after allegations of corruption at the Teesworks regeneration scheme.
Government to launch statutory investigation into Tees Valley Combined Authority
Statutory probe into financial governance at Ben Houchen-led authority to be launched this week
teesside.thelead.uk
The government is going to investigate the financial governance of Tees Valley Combined Authority. It comes three years after the Conservatives launched a review after allegations of corruption at the Teesworks regeneration scheme.
Government to launch statutory investigation into Tees Valley Combined Authority
Statutory probe into financial governance at Ben Houchen-led authority to be launched this week
teesside.thelead.uk
Ministers to launch statutory probe of English authority led by Ben Houchen ft.trib.al/lPnxWCy
Ministers to launch statutory probe of English authority led by Ben Houchen
Move reflects concern in Whitehall about governance and value for money at Tees Valley Combined Authority
ft.trib.al
For some reason I was reading up on the UK's fossil fuel reserves the other day. We've already extracted around 90% of our oil and gas. More extraction just kicks the can down the road for, what, another 5-10 years? What happens after that? What does new drilling buy time for?
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · last wk.Direct fossil fuel propaganda from @lbc.co.uk in support of oil and gas extraction. Using Adura's own marketing as your headline goes beyond malfeasance.
The multiple news organisations doing daily podcasts on the Russell Band trial are truly bringing the grim entertainment spectacle to it. “I’m Luke Jones… and this is Day One: How to pick a jury.” It’s a rape trial ffs.
It is very interesting that the Mail’s story on Michael Gove’s recent ex-girlfriend being charged with CSAM offences has been memoryholed two days after it was published. Public records show she appeared at Oxford Combined Court centre on September 30 and pleaded not guilty.
Today's Teesside Lead speaks to a former rugby pro about his plans for a community project in Middlesbrough.
“I saw talented kids who didn’t get the same chance” — former rugby pro brings new life to Saltersgill community centre
A new initiative, led by Middlesbrough-born Chris Simpson-Daniel has taken over a much-loved community centre in Saltersgill, hoping to give young people the opportunities that sport gave him.
teesside.thelead.uk