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.
Leigh Jones
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Where’s Andy Burnham going?
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Monday: “Kids, you’re banned from going online. Get your entertainment and news from TV and Radio like we used to in the old days”
Wednesday: “We’re closing TV and Radio. But don’t worry, it’s all available online”
"Oh, so just because I'm specifically concerned about the ethnic purity of the German race, suddenly I'm a Nazi?"
Iran/US Ceasefire Deal, Colorized (2026)
Mad what stories you can find when you're just looking through a local authority's planning portal.
Mad what stories you can find when you're just looking through a local authority's planning portal.
Tees for Two. The @privateeyenews.bsky.social story of how a couple of businessmen are trousering £400m+ from a data centre deal at the heart of a publicly-funded regeneration scheme in which they have invested nothing is available to read online…
www.private-eye.co.uk/in-the-back
I absolutely love this.
A power plant exploded at an unknown date in the last few months and nobody noticed.