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AMBER GILL JILL SCOTT NADINE SHAH DAVID OLUSOGA
Tony, who first worked at the Bridge Tavern in Newcastle, then at the Palace of Arts, told the Chronicle: “We use the best ingredients and treat them with respect.”
The meat is cooked using the Asado technique pioneered in Argentina which is slowly, over wood and charcoal - Trakol is the Swedish word for charcoal.
“It’s the oldest kind of cooking in the world,” said Tony. “You do it instinctively with touch, smell, visual tests rather than probes and water baths.”
Former Love Island winner Amber has attended numerous events in support of the anti-racism movement, as well as posting petitions and donation pages on her social media accounts, following the shocking death of
George Floyd at the hands of police in America.
Last week, Gateshead girl Amber attended the huge BLM demonstration in London, where she now lives, which saw thousands of people flock to Hyde Park
She was forced to defend herself against accusations she didn’t social distance, responding: “I hope people who are coming with the ‘social distancing’ had the same energy for Dominic Cummings, for the VE Day parties, for the beaches, for all the parks, for all the footballers at their apartments having parties... I just hope that you had the same energy as this is for a real-life cause.”
With just shy of 150 England caps, many club winners’ medals and the ability to boast that she was an Olympic athlete, Manchester City Women’s star Jill Scott is one of the most decorated females to ever play the game in England.
In February the 33-year-old watched from the bench during a rare rest as her team-mates trounced Ipswich 10-0 in the Women’s FA Cup.
Less than 24 hours later, the Sunderlandborn midfielder was back in the North East, however, running a half-term girls’ soccer camp, with the goal of inspiring more girls to get into sport.
The J8 Soccer School event at Newcastle Benfield Football
Club, run by
Scott and a team of coaches was supported by Made By Sport, a campaign launched last year by Prince Harry which champions sport to improve the lives of young people. Starting her career at Sunderland, Scott has had an unbelievable career and her aim is to spread her wisdom, and potentially inspire the next generation of female footballers in the North East, which has traditionally been a hotbed of talent for the national team. “The region has got so many players if you look. The likes of Steph Houghton, Demi Stokes... the list goes on,” Scott said.
“Credit to Mick Mulhern really, when he had a lot of us at Sunderland and I think he definitely pushed us in the right way and we’ve definitely got a bit of that North East grit about us.”
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Nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2017, the Whitburn-born musician released her fourth album, Kitchen Sink’ this month.
She told NME: “It’s a conversation between me and so many of my friends in our 30s.
“There’s that panic that so many of us have that we are running out of time, when it comes to having children.
“It’s like when we were younger we all made our own timelines in our minds of when we thought we would do certain things.
“If you were to tell 14-year-old me I’d be 34, unmarried and have no children I’d have never believed it. Lots of my friends I’ve spoken to did this very same thing.”
Born to an English mother from South Shields of part Norwegian ancestry and a Pakistani father, Nadine grew up in the North East and was honoured by the University of Sunderland last year.
Nadine’s debut album, Love Your Dum And Mad, brought her to the attention of music critics nationwide; as did her determination to sing - and speak - openly about social stigmas towards those suffering from mental health illnesses.
The award-winning TV presenter, who grew up in Gateshead, has won rave reviews for BBC 2 programme A House Through Time.
The third run for the popular series, which sees Olusoga unveil the story of a single house and its lifetime of occupants, had been announced last year by the BBC on the back of the hugely successful second series which Olusoga filmed in Newcastle.
Earlier this month he defended the pulling down of Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol, saying protesters should have never had to topple the bronze figure because it should have been taken down years ago.
Talking to the BBC, he said: “This is a city that is 14% BAME with a statue of someone that was not just a slave trader, he was involved in the Royal Africa Company, the company that trafficked more people into slavery than any in British history.
“Removing statues is not erasing history, this is the constant accusation made by people who have been digging into this history trying to make the city more aware of who Colston was.
“Statues are not the mechanisms by which we understand history. We learn history through museums, books televisions programmes.
“Statues are about adoration. They’re about saying ‘this man was a great man who did great things.’ That’s not true.
“He was a slave trader and a murderer.”