IT’S rare – if ever – that Emma Gray has a night out on the town. For a start, no taxi would ever be able to manoeuvre the three-mile, pothole-ridden dirt track which takes you to the 25-year-old’s front door.Read
IT’S easy, fun and free – and it’s been keeping kids fit for generations. Now, hula hoops are being used to tackle rising rates of childhood obesity and help youngsters throughout the North East to stay trim.Read
SARAH Holmes is hell-bent on revolutionising the way we buy our brew. She tells Vicky Robson why Facebook is the future for the quintessentially British beverage.Read
A NINE-YEAR-OLD who has lived most of his life with a brain tumour has seen his dream come true thanks to the overwhelming generosity of Journal readers.Read
WITH one in five couples now splitting before their child's fifth birthday, a new book has been published in a bid to help partners strike the perfect balance between their relationship and parenthood.Read
TO HER doting parents, little Mya Simpson is one of a kind. At three-years-old, she needs round the clock care after being born with a series of severe abnormalities.Read
HUNDREDS of people have signed up to the Journal and Nova International’s Great North Fitness Revolution since it was launched just four weeks ago.Read
AFTER more than a decade spent in desk jobs and stuck in front of a computer with a 20-a-day habit, Andy Robertson’s health was on a slippery slope.Read
Vicky studied at Sunderland University and joined ncjMedia as a trainee reporter in May 2008. Since then she has covered a wide variety of stories, from crime and courts, general news and local history.
