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Ben Houchen is "launching PPL Momentum Accelerator" to support emerging music artists. This must be huge news to PRS for Music who actually run the scheme and have done so since 2013.

Excl: Ministers to serve best value notice on Ben Houchen’s Tees Valley Combined Authority due to continued governance concerns on.ft.com/3G2Ht3E

A free guide to York Why most travel guidebooks and online guides are a bit rubbish – and what I did to make sure my one about York isn’t By Alistair Lamont

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

THREE POINTS AT THE RIVERSIDE!!!

No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The thing about swastikas spray painted on the side of a cybertruck is there’s a 50/50 chance the owner did it.

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

More great work from @leighsus.bsky.social Exposing how Wilton International site manager Sembcorp illegally dumped 22,000 tonnes of toxic, hazardous incinerator waste at a supposedly non-hazardous dump in #Teesside And for far longer than they first admitted teesside.thelead.uk/p/22000-tonn...

Smog in Bratislava!! Na zdravie, Catie C 🍻 #smogontour

Get a huge 15% discount off our books with the case-sensitive code VALENTINE15 until midnight on Friday February 14. Three big tomes about the dark, scary, and bizarre pop culture of the 70s & 80s - the perfect dark Valentine for your crush... Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife

Tuesday Quiz Sheets are here, brainiacs 🧠 Through the round window...... Pump 1 Brew By Numbers 11 4.2% Session IPA Pump 2 Tanita's back! Wensleydale Brewery Twisting Sobriety 5% Have a wonderful evening, Smoggies 💛

My YouTube channel is exclusively dedicated to Middlesbrough FC! I'll be uploading multiple times a week - videos, written blogs and more - on all of the talking points from the Riverside Stadium. If you enjoy then hit subscribe! #Boro #utb www.youtube.com/@bonkersforb...

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Two changes (kind of) 🍻 Pump 1 Fierce Beer Sunwave 3.4% Perfect for a Saturday of civilised socialising 🍻 Vegan 🌱 Pump 3 Second cask of Turning Point Brew Co. × Bowling For Soup A Hangover You Do Deserve 5.2% Vegan 🌱 Stay golden, Smoggies 💛

Few new bits in Fridges Of Joy on #supersmogsaturday 🍻 Verdant Brewing Co Putty 8% DIPA Vegan 🌱 From Vault City Brewing Imperial Iron Brew 8.4% Iron Blue Bubblegum Brew 6.3% Aslin Beer Company Triple Orange Starfish 12%

I really love this www.theguardian.com/football/202...

#OnThisBoroDay - 1990: WEMBLEY HERE WE COME! A transcendental 20 minute Holgate EIO & grown men cry as #Boro book a first ever Twin Towers trip. Goals from Bernie Slaven & Paul Kerr seal a 2-1 ZDS Northern final 2nd leg extra-time win over title-chasing Villa. Amazing buzz.

Celebrate 80 years of Moomins www.visitfinland.com/en/articles/... via visitfinland.com #Finland #moomins #muumi #mumintrollen #literature #jansson #langsky

Saudi Arabia is planning to execute five young Saudi Arabian Shia citizens and one Shia businessman on charges the United Nations has deemed arbitrary and which campaigners and legal experts say are racially motivated. www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-a...

Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

‘Kes marked a conscious departure from the “go-in-and-grab-it” style of Up the Junction. The aim now was to observe, sympathetically, at a distance, but still with a view to avoiding as far as possible any suspicion of extensive rehearsal.’ David Trotter on Ken Loach: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“Can you still hear the lambs, Clarice?”

Guys, I’ve just seen the worst job advert in the world. Absolute state of this.

This is a beautiful memorial, reimagining Guernica, to the eight International Brigaders from Stockton-on-Tees and Thornaby, NE England, who fought against Franco in Spain.

Wheeeere's your head at? At The Golden Smog, like the rest of you! 🙂 Pump 1 Redwillow Brewery Headless 3.9% There are times when you want an easy drinking beer. It’s light, a little hoppy with floral undertones and very quaffable; perfect for a Sunday evening with Smoggies 🍻

The Times recently led its front page with an entirely bogus story about VAT on private school fees. What were the facts? | Stephen McNair

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

2nd pump on 2nd of the month... Change on 2 to wash down #supersmogsundaybuffet 🍽 Neptune Brewery Waterfall Dawn 5.1% Vegan 🌱 Cheers, Smoggies 🍻

Standard #supersmogsunday plans from @billymurphyart 🐸 Once you've all finished your tomfoolery, we're here for - 5 real ales 🍻 2 ciders 🍎 4 kegs, including Kasteel Rouge 🏰 All cask & keg available to take, take, take, take, take-take, t-t-take, take away - bring your own growler 🐻

“As it relates to… the hopes and practices of our Democratic Republic – this notable admonition continues for all Americans as well - ‘Be Aware!’” The artist Wes Wilson writing about his 1965 poster ‘Are We Next?’ back in 2013. www.wes-wilson.com/ww-writings/...

Just been out and washed my windows. Not a single neighbour came out to say I could do theirs next; country's going to the dogs.

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Clean, lean (ha) Smog Machine! Ready for 2pm kick off on #supersmogsaturday 🍻 Pumps - Wensleydale Brewery Pentrich Brewing Flying Gang Brewing Theakston Brewery Wensleydale Brewery

Given that Altar Mitty likes joining a new branch of religion every five minutes, maybe he should become a Buddhist next and learn all about Karma.

The Times recently led its front page with an entirely bogus story about VAT on private school fees. What were the facts? | Stephen McNair

Few material things can provide perspective. This does for me. Photo of Otto Frank, returning to his family’s hiding place. In 1944, an informant betrayed them and the family was sent to Auschwitz. His wife (Edith) was murdered, his daughters (Margot & Anne) died of Typhus.

If you wanted to know the latest on Teesworks, I wrote this for @theleaduk.bsky.social which is probably a pretty useful place to start!

Beer & bread, bread & beer, come to The Smog and get it here! Pump 1 Redwillow Brewery Weightless 4.2% Bread - won't help with weightlessness but definitely helps with happiness levels! Sourdough! Cheese Fadgie 🧀 Haggis Fadgie Thank you, Fabulous Baker Boy!!

Here's yesterday's Teesside Lead. It's absolutely chockablock, rammo-kablammo, full of news and analysis. Have a goosey!

It's a bit American Beauty, a lot Seal - very tasty! Pump 5 Wensleydale Brewery Kiss From A Rose 5% Wensleydale say 'Deep, rich and smooth. A full bodied stout with the velvety richness of lactose with just that hint of sweetness to play off the bitterness of the stout.' Stay golden, Smoggies 💛

Sobriety? Never heard of it! * Sorry, Tanita. Pump 2 Wensleydale Brewery Twisting Sobriety 5% Cashmere • Sabro *Jokes - be sober, we support our sober Smoggies and have a wiiiidddeee range of no to low and rightly so 💛

Just coming on to say the same thing 😁 Also, I recognise 3 of the 4 guys in the photo, originally the worked in the old shop before the one in the photo. Loved Topsoft. Bought all my Spectrum games and accessories from them.

If you're old and peculiar* - welcome. If you're young and just a bit odd - you'll fit right in too. Pump 4 Theakston Brewery Old Peculier 5.6% *I know peculiar v Peculier, it's just a post on the internet, don't worry about it, chickens 😊

Best radio show? Got to be @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Sunday morning on BBC 6Music #AddMusicSky @krisrk.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Work has begun on the Skerningham development near Darlington, raising concerns over environmental damage to protected wildlife and habitats | Julia Mazza

🎵I never saw the morning 'til I stayed up all night I never saw the sunshine 'til you turned out your love light, baby I never saw my hometown until I stayed away too long I never heard the melody until I needed the song🎶 San Diego Serenade - Tom Waits

Trump has pulled the security of former government officials we know are under threat simply because he doesn't like them. And he's done it at the same time as released a load of very angry, very violent, likely highly armed individuals who are loyal to him. It is dark stuff.