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Project offers alternative to life on the streets

by webmaster | Dec 5, 2014 | Miscellaneous

Desperate young people are being offered an alternative to sleeping on the streets of Middlesbrough with the creation of a new safe-house network. Depaul UK’s Nightstop North East project pairs young people with volunteer families and individuals who have a spare room...

Tributes paid to much loved priest

by webmaster | Nov 15, 2014 | Miscellaneous

Tributes have been paid to much-loved priest, Father Norman Jacobson, who has died at the age of 67 following a lengthy period of ill health. Born in Boldon, Co Durham, on February 13 1947, Father Norman was initially ordained into the Anglican ministry and worked in...

Missionary Francis returns to Africa

by webmaster | Oct 31, 2014 | Miscellaneous

Middlesbrough teacher Francis Hannaway is returning for another stint in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he worked as a lay missionary in the early 1990s. Francis was part of Britain’s own Catholic missionary society, Mill Hill Missionaries, which was founded...

Appeal to save holiday lifeline

by webmaster | Oct 10, 2014 | Miscellaneous

Volunteers are appealing for help to save a summer holiday lifeline that’s helped hundreds of Middlesbrough children with special needs over more than 30 years. Local families rely on The Newman Holiday Trust to give both parents and children a well-deserved break,...

‘Media Monk’ to Open Ushaw Lectures series

by webmaster | Oct 9, 2014 | Miscellaneous

Durham University’s Centre for Catholic Studies has announced the first set of speakers this academic year in its highly successful series of Ushaw Lectures. Those giving the lectures include a well-known ‘media monk’ and a leading science writer. Known for his...

Campaigners shine light on modern slavery

by webmaster | Sep 26, 2014 | Miscellaneous

Police, politicians, charities and church groups are among those taking part in a major event in Middlesbrough aimed at highlighting the scourge of people-trafficking. Organisers of ‘Making Middlesbrough A Traffick-Free Zone’ believe the North-East could be a modern...