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A pint with a comic artist convinces Alastair Gilmour that cartoonists and satirists are almost normal people.

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A thirteen-mile run isn’t half thirsty work, so it’s time for a beer, writes Alastair Gilmour

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The Red House, Chopwell. Alastair Gilmour visits a village pub where a dash of community spirit is served with every pint. 

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Easily does it. Alastair Gilmour meets an artist who’s kicking up a bit of a pen and ink in Whitley Bay.

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A focus on its surroundings has helped one Northumberland brewery double in size, writes Alastair Gilmour.

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One of the world’s best-loved artists inspired a North-East man to pick up his brushes and go to the pub, writes Alastair Gilmour.

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How one graphic designer manages to cram in as much work as she does is anybody’s guess. Alastair Gilmour finds out between brushstrokes.

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A Newcastle publican escaped the horrors of Ukraine last month following some well-earned rest and recreation in Kyiv.

Alastair Gilmour reports on the normality before the barbarity.

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The creative and leisure heart of the Ouseburn Valley in Newcastle is under threat from ill-considered development plans, writes Alastair Gilmour

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