The English author Celia Dale died in 2011, just shy of her 100th birthday, and during her lifetime she published thirteen novels. The first of these was ‘The Least of These’ (1943), which shone a light on a family as they lived through The Blitz. Her fin…

Service has three narrators: Daniel is a celebrity chef who has recently been accused of sexual assault. Julie is his wife and the mother of his two sons. Hannah is a woman who waitressed at Daniel’s restaurant while she was at university. She’s not one o…

Britain’s first reggae band? That’ll be Cimarons (and yes, they did form in a bus shelter – in 1967). Their remarkable story is told in ‘Harder Than The Rock’, a new film getting a very special screening at Tyneside Cinema (and then the wider north-east).…