Author: Stockton Advertiser

WHEN you hear the name Marcus Brigstocke, chances are you’ll be expecting to hear comedy of a certain flavour. “Audiences who come to see me are used to seeing someone being fairly polemic, angry and frustrated. But in my new show I wanted to do something where I step away from the cliché of me being posh, middle-class and a bit angsty. What if I remove myself from the picture? So, I’m going to be Lucifer.”

"I’m going to be Lucifer,” says Marcus Brigstocke ahead of Devil May Care tour

THE recent BBC documentary Get Rich or Die Young did much to stimulate debate around health issues in Stockton-on-Tees.

Letters: Stockton life expectancy laid bare on BBC

THE success of a North-East engraving business has led to a move to larger premises and plans to increase staff numbers.

Durham solicitors help Stockton business expand

YOU are more likely to win a major National Lottery prize in the Middlesbrough area than anywhere else in the country, according to latest statistics.

You're more likely to be a lottery winner in Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Stockton than anywhere else in the country

A NEW Arriva bus ticket to offer cheaper bus travel to the under 16s is being trialled in Teesside throughout the summer.

Child saver bus ticket trialled in Teesside over summer holidays

AN MP has expressed his concerns at the number of school exclusions in his constituency.

Record school exclusion rates concerns MP

STREET theatre, aerial performances and choreographed routines are promised at major North-East cultural festival this weekend.

Stockton International Riverside Festival prepares for launch

AN ARMED robber walked out of a semi-open prison just six days before he was due to be released from a lengthy sentence and spent five months on the run abroad before his re-capture by police.

Armed robber escaped from jail six days before he was due to be released

AN ARMED robber walked out of a semi-open prison just six days before he was due to be released from a lengthy sentence and spent five months on the run abroad before his re-capture by police.

Armed robber escaped jail SIX days before end of ten year stretch

MANY in the North-East may have been shocked to see the BBC Panorama programme on Monday, July 30 showing the differences in life expectancy in the Stockton area.

Letters: Shocked to see differences in life expectancy in Stockton area