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Welcome to the June issue of IN&AROUND! As normality slowly re-emerges, it feels like a time of new beginnings. In that spirit, the former Apollo Bingo Hall in Durham could soon be demolished to make way for student accommodation – get the full story on page 8.

Meanwhile, in-person events are being held in increasing numbers – we’ve highlighted just a few of this month’s North East happenings on page 54.

What if you’re looking to put down roots in the region?

Heylo Housing could help you to buy an affordable local home, as pages 36-37 reveal.

We’ll be back with another packed issue in July. Have a great summer!

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Former bingo hall in Durham potentially to be demolished in favour of student accommodation A planning application has been lodged for a former bingo hall in the city of Durham’s Belmont ward to be demolished, with a student apartment complex proposed to be purpose-built in its place. The site would be complemented by an array of parking and servicing facilities also included in the plans.

Planning documents recently submitted to Durham County Council indicate that the site near Sherburn Road closed during the first COVID-19 lockdown last year. Though the venue reopened in July, another closure followed 18 weeks later as a result of further lockdown restrictions.

According to a design and access statement sent alongside the application, the building’s thenowners opted to sell it in 2020 after concluding that another reopening was “not a viable business opportunity”. One factor, the statement added, was “competition from larger-scale operators.”

The new plans, if approved by the council, would usher in the creation of about 138 en-suite bedrooms – including seven accessible bedrooms – across four floors.

The converted site would also include a cinema room, gym and bike storage room for students, along with a courtyard divided into parking spaces – one of which a disabled space – for 15 cars.

The proposed development was detailed in a ‘meeting house needs statement’ that reached council planners’ hands. According to this document, the work would assist in overcoming a “clear shortage of bespoke student accommodation within Durham City.”

Meanwhile, the design and access statement specifies: “To the ground floor the properties ancillary accommodation; including gym and common room is located with a secure reception to the main entrance.

“Some student accommodation is also located on the ground floor, but the majority of this lies on the first, second and third floors of the building.

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“Generally student accommodation is arranged into clusters of between five to seven en-suite bedrooms located with a shared common room consisting of kitchen, dining space and living space.”

Though most recently used as a bingo hall, the building earmarked for demolition initially opened in 1938 as the Majestic Cinema. In the decades since, the building has also served as a boxing gym and skateboard arena.

In 2018, Apollo Bingo managers held an exhibition at the building to mark its 80th anniversary – with memorabilia dating back to the site’s cinema days on display. The artefacts shown included a photograph of a 1939 visit paid to the cinema by King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother.

The student accommodation plan for the former Apollo Bingo site still awaits approval at the time of writing, with a final decision expected by early August.

For further information about the planning application or to follow its progress, please visit Durham County Council’s planning portal, which is accessible through the council’s website at www.durham.gov.uk. The search reference to use is DM/21/01611/FPA.

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Wild thing, you make my heart sing “happy birthday” to Maurice Sendak If you’ve read the children’s picture book Where the Wild Things Are, originally published in 1963, you’ve also seen some of the best-known illustrations crafted by the American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, who was born on 10th June, 1928. He passed away in 2012, leaving the world a legacy of enchanting literary and artistic work for successive generations of children to enjoy.

Though born in New York City’s Brooklyn borough to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, Sendak lost members of his extended family to the Holocaust.

This unhappy childhood later inspired the darker aspects of his picture books – including Where the Wild Things Are, which tells the story of a young boy called Max who sails to an island populated by frightening beasts.

While the textual side of the story consists of only 338 words in total, chunks of prose within the book’s pages are interspersed with fascinating imagery of the “Wild Things”.

Originally, these were going to be wild horses until Sendak realised he didn’t know how to draw them – leading his editor Ursula Nordstrom to suggest that he switch to the more ambiguous “Wild Things”.

These were caricatures of Sendak’s aunts and uncles, and originally drawn in his youth in response to these relatives chaotically stopping by his family’s Brooklyn home on Sunday evenings. In a Guardian interview in 2011, Sendak recalled perceiving these relatives, with their “crazy faces and wild eyes”, only as “grotesques” – because, as a child, he was not aware of their desperate and tragic background.

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According to Sendak, the book was initially reviewed negatively upon its original publication, and even banned in libraries. However, Where the Wild Things Are grew in reputation as children sought out the book and critics reappraised it.

Writing for TIME in 2009, Mary Pols wrote of the book’s “grounding effect”, noting how Max, after indulging his “wild side”, is “pulled back by a belief in parental love to a supper ‘still hot’, balancing the seesaw of fear and comfort.”

Decades after Where the Wild Things Are was first published, its influence has continued to permeate popular culture. When English singersongwriter Siouxsie Sioux recorded a cover version of the Troggs song “Wild Thing” with her second band The Creatures, she included the new rendition on an EP titled Wild Things – so-called as Creatures bassist Steven Severin believed it sounded like something the “Wild Things” of Where the Wild Things Are would have danced to on their island.

Other picture books Sendak wrote for children included 1970’s In the Night Kitchen and 1981’s Outside Over There. He also illustrated other authors’ works, including Else Holmelund Minarik’s Little Bear books. However, Where the Wild Things Are remains Sendak’s most famous work – and was adapted into a critically-acclaimed film directed by Spike Jonze and released to cinemas in late 2009, less than three years before Sendak’s death in Connecticut on 8th May, 2012.

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When PAL’s original creator, tech entrepreneur Mark Bowman (voiced by Eric André), holds a swanky, Apple-style press event unveiling a new product line of home robots set to replace her, the incensed PAL seizes control of the robots before ordering them to capture all humans and banish them to outer space.

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also be sited close to the 5.5-hectare Vaux site, where the Vaux Brewery once stood.

Peter McIntyre, executive director of city development at Sunderland City Council, declared: “The active ground floor frontage will make this hotel a hive of activity, with guests of the hotel and people living and working at Riverside Sunderland and the rest of the city centre able to make use of the eateries that open there.

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Sage Gateshead Sunderland post-punk favourites The Futureheads will be at Sage Gateshead as it slowly reopens to in-person crowds. On 5th June, the band will perform acoustic renditions of songs from their illustrious back catalogue, including 2019 album Powers. At sagegateshead.com, you can buy a ticket to attend the socially-distanced gig at the venue itself or a streaming pass to watch it all from your home.

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ARC, Stockton We could do all this with a few laughs to fuel our post-pandemic optimism – and, at this socially-distanced addition to ARC’s long line of Catch 22 comedy club gigs, there will be plenty of chuckles. On 25th June, Matt Reed will be MC, while 8 Out of 10 Cats’ Rob Rouse, social media star Sarah Speare and Canadian Glen Wool complete the line-up. Tickets for in-person or online viewing can be bought from arconline.co.uk.

Gordon Hendricks as Elvis

Forum Theatre, Billingham Widely regarded as one of the world’s most convincing Elvis tribute acts, Gordon Hendricks won the Grand Final of Stars in Their Eyes and has since won many other accolades for his stunningly faithful depiction of the King. On 26th June, Hendricks will take the audience through Elvis’s ’68 Comeback Special and iconic “Aloha from Hawaii” concert from 1973. Get your £24 ticket at forumtheatrebillingham.co.uk.

PAW Patrol Live! “Race to the Rescue” Utilita Arena, Newcastle If your child is a fan of the hit animated TV series PAW Patrol that airs on Nickelodeon, you can take them to see this live-action adventure scheduled for 26th June. On stage, the TV show’s lead Ryder will appear with his team of search and rescue dogs, who spring into action when Mayor Goodway goes missing. For more information and to book tickets, please visit utilitaarena.co.uk.

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