Sixteen-year-old figure skater Edward Solovyov is busy training when most teenagers are still in bed. The Olympic prospect starts most weekday mornings bright and early at Whitley Bay Ice Rink, before heading off to Cramlington Learning Village (CLV) where he’s just started his A Levels. At weekends, when he’s not competing, Edward travels to London…

Students at Cramlington Learning Village are busy overcoming traditional boundaries as well as personal challenges.  Tallulah Dowden is not only the first female Construction student in the school’s history, she was also awarded a Distinction – the first in recent years in the subject. Sophie Matthews has Dyslexia and Visual Stress but received seven Grade…

Cramlington Learning Village is creating an exciting future for its current and future students with a new £50m school, excellent A Level results and a highly positive Ofsted inspection. Earlier this summer inspectors acknowledged the strength of the school’s Sixth Form offer – including the introduction of A Level Law two years ago – and…

The Vangeli brothers are bringing a little taste of the real Greece to the centre of Middlesbrough. Aimiliano and Mikael – alongside their wives Arena and Eriola – have opened The Greek Spot in Dundas Street. It’s already rekindling happy holiday memories for the thousands of Teessiders who visit the mainland and islands every year.…

A Middlesbrough tattoo studio, opened by two couples just eight months ago, is already etched with success. In October the work of Paul Watson was recognised at the Ink on the Tees convention. Six weeks ago Chloe Gilkes-Bullock, one of six artists working at Iron Hills Tattoo Co, came away with three awards from the…

A multi-million pound deal has secured the future of an historic railway business and ensured it remains in Darlington, its home since 1911. Following its sale last year to the rail infrastructure company Trackwork, Henry Williams is now moving from its base in Dodsworth Street to Innovation House, which stands on a five acre site…

A new bakery in Middlesbrough is offering life chances for neurodivergent young people whilst providing Teessiders with a special taste of their heritage.  Breadsticks, in the Dundas Shopping Centre, is run by the Glowsticks charity which opened a café above the bakery just over a year ago. There, more than 40 young people with autism,…

  Two lifelong friends from Dundas Indoor Market’s Jean’s Kitchen have thanked sponsors, family and spectators for their support after successfully completing the prestigious London Landmarks Half Marathon.   Novice runner Kay Watson, 48, said the encouragement and thought of the money they were raising kept her going, as well as her determination to do…

One of Teesside’s “best located” modern industrial buildings is on the market for sale or lease. Pegasus House is in a prominent position on the popular Wynyard Business Park, just off the A19.  The distinctive white building features more than 120,000 sq. ft of warehouse and distribution space and includes 15,000 sq. ft of office…