The Golden Smog 🍉
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Stockton's first micro pub. Civilised socialising. Living Wage Accredited. A small pub in Europe. ¡No Pasarán! 2pm to 10pm Sun - Thurs 2pm to 11pm Fri & Sat 1 Hambletonian Yard, Stockton on Tees TS18 1DS
Ben Houchen is "launching PPL Momentum Accelerator" to support emerging music artists. This must be huge news to PRS for Music who actually run the scheme and have done so since 2013.
Excl: Ministers to serve best value notice on Ben Houchen’s Tees Valley Combined Authority due to continued governance concerns on.ft.com/3G2Ht3E
English authority led by Ben Houchen told to improve use of public money
[FREE TO READ] Tees Valley Combined Authority is responsible for Teesworks regeneration scheme
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A free guide to York Why most travel guidebooks and online guides are a bit rubbish – and what I did to make sure my one about York isn’t By Alistair Lamont
A free guide to York
Why most travel guidebooks and online guides are a bit rubbish – and what I did to make sure my one about York isn’t
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy www.theguardian.com/education/20...
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
theguardian.com
The thing about swastikas spray painted on the side of a cybertruck is there’s a 50/50 chance the owner did it.
Molly Ploofkins@mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2y agoSeen today in Lower Manhattan...
No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.
More great work from @leighsus.bsky.social Exposing how Wilton International site manager Sembcorp illegally dumped 22,000 tonnes of toxic, hazardous incinerator waste at a supposedly non-hazardous dump in #Teesside And for far longer than they first admitted teesside.thelead.uk/p/22000-tonn...
22,000 tonnes of hazardous waste dumped in non-hazardous Teesside landfill
Plus: King Charles in Middlesbrough is met with protests + operator picked for Tees Renewable Energy Plant (£)
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Get a huge 15% discount off our books with the case-sensitive code VALENTINE15 until midnight on Friday February 14. Three big tomes about the dark, scary, and bizarre pop culture of the 70s & 80s - the perfect dark Valentine for your crush... Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Tuesday Quiz Sheets are here, brainiacs 🧠 Through the round window...... Pump 1 Brew By Numbers 11 4.2% Session IPA Pump 2 Tanita's back! Wensleydale Brewery Twisting Sobriety 5% Have a wonderful evening, Smoggies 💛
My YouTube channel is exclusively dedicated to Middlesbrough FC! I'll be uploading multiple times a week - videos, written blogs and more - on all of the talking points from the Riverside Stadium. If you enjoy then hit subscribe! #Boro #utb www.youtube.com/@bonkersforb...
Bonkers For Boro with Phil Spencer
Welcome to Bonkers For Boro, hosted by Phil Spencer, the ultimate YouTube channel for all things Middlesbrough FC! Whether you're a lifelong Boro supporter or just a football fan, this channel is yo...
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Two changes (kind of) 🍻 Pump 1 Fierce Beer Sunwave 3.4% Perfect for a Saturday of civilised socialising 🍻 Vegan 🌱 Pump 3 Second cask of Turning Point Brew Co. × Bowling For Soup A Hangover You Do Deserve 5.2% Vegan 🌱 Stay golden, Smoggies 💛
Few new bits in Fridges Of Joy on #supersmogsaturday 🍻 Verdant Brewing Co Putty 8% DIPA Vegan 🌱 From Vault City Brewing Imperial Iron Brew 8.4% Iron Blue Bubblegum Brew 6.3% Aslin Beer Company Triple Orange Starfish 12%
#OnThisBoroDay - 1990: WEMBLEY HERE WE COME! A transcendental 20 minute Holgate EIO & grown men cry as #Boro book a first ever Twin Towers trip. Goals from Bernie Slaven & Paul Kerr seal a 2-1 ZDS Northern final 2nd leg extra-time win over title-chasing Villa. Amazing buzz.
Celebrate 80 years of Moomins www.visitfinland.com/en/articles/... via visitfinland.com #Finland #moomins #muumi #mumintrollen #literature #jansson #langsky
Celebrate 80 years of Moomins – a whimsical journey through Finland | Visit Finland
Join the celebrations for the Moomins' 80th anniversary in Finland! Discover special exhibitions, Moomin attractions, and magical events happening throughout 2025.
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Saudi Arabia is planning to execute five young Saudi Arabian Shia citizens and one Shia businessman on charges the United Nations has deemed arbitrary and which campaigners and legal experts say are racially motivated. www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-a...
Saudi Arabia plans to execute Shia youths on charges UN deems 'arbitrary'
Young men, who were minors at the time of their arrest, participated in peaceful protests in al-Qatif in 2011 and 2012
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‘Kes marked a conscious departure from the “go-in-and-grab-it” style of Up the Junction. The aim now was to observe, sympathetically, at a distance, but still with a view to avoiding as far as possible any suspicion of extensive rehearsal.’ David Trotter on Ken Loach: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter · Don’t go quietly: Ken Loach’s Fables
It's largely thanks to Loach's example that social realism remains a potent and versatile cultural resource for young...
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Guys, I’ve just seen the worst job advert in the world. Absolute state of this.
This is a beautiful memorial, reimagining Guernica, to the eight International Brigaders from Stockton-on-Tees and Thornaby, NE England, who fought against Franco in Spain.
Wheeeere's your head at? At The Golden Smog, like the rest of you! 🙂 Pump 1 Redwillow Brewery Headless 3.9% There are times when you want an easy drinking beer. It’s light, a little hoppy with floral undertones and very quaffable; perfect for a Sunday evening with Smoggies 🍻
The Times recently led its front page with an entirely bogus story about VAT on private school fees. What were the facts? | Stephen McNair
Lies, damned lies and misrepresentation
The Times recently led its front page with an entirely bogus story about VAT on private school fees. What were the facts?
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A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼
2nd pump on 2nd of the month... Change on 2 to wash down #supersmogsundaybuffet 🍽 Neptune Brewery Waterfall Dawn 5.1% Vegan 🌱 Cheers, Smoggies 🍻
