Are these England’s oddest allotments?
Several miles out to sea, much dive-bombed by seabirds, and previous gardeners include St Cuthbert and Grace DarlingIs the north of England on safe ground in claiming to have England's remotest allotment? This Guardian Northerner post is a way of findi...
Open-top bus tours come to Manchester as local students win University Challenge
The sun shines, the youth are celebrating in Oxford Road and the big red sight-seeing bus will even take you past the Guardian Northerner officeGlory days just now for Manchester as its brainy youth thrash Cambridge in the final of University Challenge...
Liverpool’s reds and blues supporters plan a joint Football Quarter
Will it be second time lucky for detailed proposals to spread the success of Liverpool and Everton FCs into their needy surroundings?Supporters of Liverpool's rival clubs are having a second go at a joint attempt to create a 'Football Quarter' between ...
Fanzine The End anthology is Liverpool’s best-selling Christmas book
Forget Mein Kampf. It's a collection of the 1980s precursor of Loaded, Viz et al which has beaten Jamie Oliver and everyone else at the tillsWe've had a fair bit in the Northerner this past year on independent publishing – eg here and here -so it's n...
Bradford’s Beatrice is Yorkshire Refugee of the Year
Awards honour arrivals who fled persecution and now - like many before them - are doing their bit in returnBradford has taken three to prizes and had a share in the fourth at this year's Refugee of the Year awards organised by Migration Yorkshire.You m...
Slug brings Darlington traffic to a halt
Another step in the rise of the north's urban wildlife, although not a happy one for the slugWere you caught up in Darlington's traffic chaos on Friday? Engineers have now found out why.The answer lies in the picture here. A slug - not this one, but o...
Alastair Campbell campaigns for the return of the Todmorden Curve
Burnley had a share in five Oscars this year - yet you can't even get to the place (and the Clarets' home games) on a direct train from ManchesterThe north's rail network is full of curious stretches left over from the high noon of competition, most of...
Black and white lingerie arrives for the Magpies’ women fans
Newcastle United tests the potential of a 'forgotten market' for its merchandising stockHoway the lassies – Newcastle United has launched a new range of lingerie in the club's celebrated magpie livery.Nothing pink here; if your loyalty to the Toon is...
Manchester United fans brave the rain to honour record-breaking team
Rio Ferdinand leads the singing in celebration of 19th league win as Saturday night's European disappointment wears offIt rained on Manchester United's bank holiday parade – literally. After Saturday's humbling at the hands of Barcelona, the Mancunia...
Manchester United play host to Chilean miners
Thirty-three men rescued from Chilean mine visit Old Trafford and enjoy a kickabout ahead of Arsenal matchThey came, they had a kickabout and they cheered – and the crowd at Old Trafford cheered back when the Chilean miners at the centre of this year...
Bedlington Terriers get their own US billionaire
Robert Rich, the 488th richest man in the world, has made an initial £30,000 investment into the non-league football clubThe linking of a wealthy American – the world's 488th richest man – with non-league Bedlington Terriers has delighted fans of ...
