With a teachers’ strike likely, it seems timely to point out that exactly 50 years ago today teachers resumed their normal working after a three-month work-to-rule dispute with the local authority

On this day in 1973, the Daily Mirror published interviews with some Teesside pupils:

HILARY COX, age 13: "It's rotten, it's boring, and my Mam says she's sick of me ...

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The story of Cleopatra’s Needle journey to Britain

The well-known monument to Capt. James Cook was erected in 1827. The design of an obelisk has led some to speculate a masonic connection.

But the more probable reasoning was that obelisks were simply in vogue. In that year, Dublin had begun its erection of the Wellington Monument in Phoenix Park t ...

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With the cloud hiding most signs of modernity — a notable exception being the well-worn paths — I can’t help thinking that this a timeless view

It is certainly a view the young James Cook would have recognised while he lived with his family at Aireyholme Farm.

Cook of course would go on to achieve fame with his navigational exploits in the Pacific, beginning with h ...

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