Ross Forbes

[Durham Miners' Association @DurhamMiners]

An explosion at Haswell Colliery claimed the lives of 95 men & boys on 28 September 1844. The people of Haswell gathered to mark the 180th anniversary of the disaster.

@StanhopeSilver led a march to Haswell pit, where a memorial service was held. The DMA was represented.

[Redhills Durham @RedhillsDurham]

This year, there is a jam-packed lineup of events leading up to @DurhamGala and soon after. From thought-provoking talks to brass bands and riveting plays, there’s something for everyone. Here’s a rundown of what’s happening https://t.co/HtMlu6pfKA

[Redhills Durham @RedhillsDurham]

We're backing Kieran and his category D walk. The story of Cat D is under-told, and we're so pleased that awareness will be raised while money is raised for a great cause. Here is one of the ways we've tried to raise awareness in the past. https://t.co/vNMEHkgHIQ

[Dr Louise Powell @louise__powell]

Very excited that this Saturday, @bridgetwriting & I will be at Spennymoor Library to share a sneak preview of Episode 1 of the @ace_national funded DOGPEOPLE podcast at this free Community Listening Party, kindly supported by @TheStoryDurham! We'd love to see you there.

[Dr Louise Powell @louise__powell]

If you'd like to find out more about my @ace_national funded project DOGPEOPLE, I'm writing a blog which will be updated 2-3 times weekly & will also feature commissioned posts from 8 talented Guest Writers. It opens with my introduction to the project:
https://t.co/CmoCYpkqdX

[Ross Forbes @raforbes57]

@HumansNoContext 18

[Redhills Durham @RedhillsDurham]

If you saw tonight’s @BBCLN , you might have seen the brilliant young musicians from @TrustDurham performing at Redhills as part of our youth brass project.

Connecting young people with their heritage is a vital part of the Redhills mission.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."

"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.

So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?

He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!

When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.

He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"

- George Clooney

actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

[⚒️ on 𝕏 @Hammer_On_X]

@Keir_Starmer @UniversityLeeds Working Class described by Keir 😂

[Durham Miners' Association @DurhamMiners]

An explosion at Oaks Colliery, Barnsley, killed 383 men & boys #OnThisDay in 1866 – the largest loss of life in a pit disaster in England.

Two years earlier, a strike for safer conditions was broken by scab labour & evictions.

169 unrecovered bodies remain entombed at the site.

[Redhills Durham @RedhillsDurham]

12 days of Christmas - audience participation style 🎄

A very big thank you to @minersbrass and guests for a wonderful Christmas Concert at @SunderlandAFC this afternoon.

[Redhills Durham @RedhillsDurham]

We're supporting DOGPEOPLE, an exciting project around Co. Durham greyhound racing. We need your stories from these tracks:
- Coundon
- Easington
- Hartlepool
- Pelaw
- Spennymoor
- Stockton (Belle Vue)
- Sunderland
- Wheatley Hill

@louise__powell would love to hear from you

[Ross Forbes @raforbes57]

@dennisband @SapienRecords @SunderlandUK @sunechosafc @Equinor_UK @Equinor Gan on lads.

[Redhills Durham @RedhillsDurham]

Happy Birthday to Durham Miners Hall 🎉

Redhills Durham Miners Hall opened 108 years ago today.

110 years on from when construction on the plot of land started, today we are in the process of drilling bore holes for our ground source heat for a sustainable future for the hall.

[Durham Miners' Association @DurhamMiners]

Congratulations to the wonderful Durham Miners’ Association Brass Band (@minersbrass) who finished tenth nationally at the finals of the National Brass Band Championship at Cheltenham at the weekend.

A big well done to all involved.

[Ross Forbes @raforbes57]

@northumbriana Interesting that people did not smile much in photographs until the advent of ‘social’ photography and 35mm cameras.

[Ross Forbes @raforbes57]

@DurhamBRASS @minersbrass @DiluteyJuice @RedhillsDurham The way forward

[Ross Forbes @raforbes57]

@BenHouchen Sue them Ben. Prove your innocence!