PUBLISHED IN THE EVENING CHRONICLE By Jon Offredo A FORMER soldier is going the distance to raise awareness about his battle with post-traumatic stress disorder. Simon Buckden, 39, wants to raise £100,000 for the charity Help for Heroes by completing 100 marathons in 100 weeks. The ex-Army and UN serviceman, formerly of Gateshead, has so [...]
Here’s some copy a colleague and I wrote for the Press Association. I was pleasantly surprised to see it turn up on the Guardian’s web site. Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi has joined Nelson Mandela, Bob Geldof and Sir Bobby Robson in being awarded the freedom of the city of Newcastle. The Nobel [...]
By Jon Offredo The University has indefinitely postponed a £850k refurbishment to the King’s Gate building, after administration baulked at their own proposal to make the £30m building more VIP-friendly. The proposed change to the all but brand new, 18-month-old building would include the construction of a floating bar and the relocation of Vice-Chancellor Chris [...]
Here’s an article I did for the PG about the student movement in the UK. It was a bit of a departure as far as writing style. I’m not terribly accustomed to doing the whole first person thing and injecting myself into the story, but looking back I think it was pretty neat. I wouldn’t [...]