Good Friday is traditionally the time when potatoes are planted, so we advise all of our Eye Magaziner readers to get out there and begin planting! Why do we plant potatoes on Good Friday? Ever since Good Friday became a national bank holiday potato planting has always tended to be completed during this day. This [...]
Every year we join the Irish in celebrating St Patrick’s Day and although it’s an established Church of England festival there are still very few people who actually know who St Patrick really was. While there is little real evidence of his early life it is thought he was born in Wales about AD 385 [...]
Speaking to a friend recently he outlined the problems he reckoned the UK was faced with. Not being the most intelligent man I ever met I wasn’t too impressed with the argument but this is how he put it…. ”There are, he said approximately 60 million people in this country. 32 million are retired or [...]
With the summer and music festivals on the way, there is no cooler way to camp this year. If you love music, mud and Mother Nature you’re probably heading to a camp site at some point this summer. But why take shelter in some dull, conventional tent when you can recreate the Summer of Love [...]
Today is Saint David’s Day. Saint David’s Day (Welsh: Dydd Gŵyl Dewi) is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March each year. The first day of March was chosen in remembrance of the death of Saint David. Tradition holds that he died on that day in [...]
Shrove Tuesday – more popularly known these days as Pancake Day, has been around for many years and is a regular event around February every year. But have you any idea where it originated and why we continue to celebrate it? Well, here’s the answer! When is Shrove Tuesday? In the Christian calendar there is [...]
Since one of the main talking points of February is St Valentine’s Day we thought we would research the event to find some interesting and fun facts to share with you. • About 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged in the USA and Europe every year. Apart from Christmas that’s the largest seasonal card-sending [...]
One evening a grandson was talking to his granddad about current events. The grandson asked his granddad what he thought about last year’s London riots, the computer age, and how things used to be when he was young. His Granddad replied, “Well, let me think a minute. I was born before television was first broadcast. [...]
The use of energy from the sun to create electricity or pre-heat water for the home is an idea that is catching on fast and there are now many ways to introduce such a project into your own house to save on those high energy bills. Solar panels and water heating systems allow you to [...]
Sad as it sounds, one of the most interesting things about my personal Christmas this year was discovering a really informative piece that managed to answer a load of the sort of questions that have probably never actually been asked, but probably would have been had anyone thought about it! In the 1400′s a law [...]
OLYMPIC swimmer Chris Cook will be visiting Redcar & Cleveland this week to see how some of our local...
In the heart of Redcar’s new Palace Hub on the seafront, is an exclusive showroom called “Northern Lights.” The...
Budding sports journalist and Prior Pursglove College student Scott Hill has taken a big step in reaching his career...
Young people are being given the chance to quiz Cleveland’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Barry Coppinger, during an online...
Pupils from Grangetown and Whitecliffe Primary Schools joined Members of Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council at the site of...
Building work is now underway to provide facilities for post 16 students at Kirkleatham Hall Special School. A ground...
