Newcastle City Council chief executive Pat Ritchie reveals she will leave top job later this year chroniclelive.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chroniclelive.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A NORTH-EAST tech company is planning to double its workforce by the end of 2021. Melius Group specialises in using technology to transform businesses and has increased its team by six to 12 in the last few months – and plans to recruit further experienced people before the start of 2022. The company also plans to explore apprenticeship opportunities next year. Steve Cowie, CEO at Melius Group, said: “We’ve had substantial growth over the last year and we’re confident that trajectory will continue. Growth has come from winning new clients and securing more work from existing customers. We can see significant opportunities for growth so will be recruiting further skilled team members to ensure we have the structure and resource in preparation for more work.”
Les McKeown, frontman of the Bay City Rollers, darlings of 1970s teenyboppers whose hits included Bye, Bye, Baby and Give a Little Love – obituary
Starting out from Edinburgh in the 1960s, in the following decade they conquered the world with their Scots brand of sunny bubblegum pop
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Bay City Rollers in 1974, l-r, Alan Longmuir, Derek Longmuir, Les McKeown, Stuart ‘Woody’ Wood and Eric Faulkner
Credit: Michael Putland/Getty Images
Les McKeown, who has died aged 65, was the frontman in the Bay City Rollers, the Scottish boy band who took the 1970s music world by storm with “Rollermania”; his vocals were first heard in 1974 on Remember (Sha-La-La-La), which shot to No 6 in the UK charts, heralding the start of band’s most successful period.
Obituary: Graham Murray, Scottish industrial chemist and founder of BAC2 scotsman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scotsman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It was said to be Newcastle s last men-only pub - where was it and what became of it?
Derided in the 1970s as a bastion of male chauvinism , the Grapes Vaults in Newcastle was reputedly the city centre s last surviving men-only pub
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The Grapes Vaults (Image: Newcastle Chronicle)
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