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SUMMARY:Bishop Auckland Food Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe popular Durham County Council-run festival will return to Bishop Auckland on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 April\, for a weekend of sizzling street food\, delicious desserts and fun-filled family entertainment. Across the two days\, visitors can try produce from over 140 independent traders selling everything from burgers and savoury snacks\, cakes and sweet treats\, to jams\, pickles\, breads and a range of distillers\, juices\, coffee\, tea\, and ales. \nSaturday Celebrity Chef Line-Up \nPhil Vickery – A well‑known chef\, TV presenter and award‑winning cookery author\, Phil is a familiar face from ITV’s This Morning and has written 19 bestselling cookbooks. He’ll be delivering live cookery demonstrations.  \nShivi Ramoutar – Chef\, TV presenter and cookbook author celebrated for her vibrant Caribbean‑influenced cooking. Shivi appears regularly on Saturday Kitchen\, James Martin’s Saturday Mornings\, and This Morning.  \nAaron Mountford‑Myles – A Great British Bake Off finalist known for his impressive baking skills and appearance in the GBBO 2025 series. He’ll be showcasing his talents in live demonstrations. \nChris Bavin (Weekend Host) – TV chef\, presenter of BBC’s Eat Well for Less?\, and an experienced food broadcaster. Chris hosts the Cookery Theatre across the whole weekend \nSunday Celebrity Chef Line-Up \nJasmine Mitchell – The latest Great British Bake Off champion\, celebrated for her calm\, methodical baking style and multiple Star Baker wins.  \nBriony May Williams – Baker\, TV presenter and former Bake Off contestant\, also recognised for her presenting role on Escape to the Country. \nLumberjaxe – Brothers Brendon and Jaydon Manders\, known for their preservative‑free\, low‑salt seasoning and sauce brand. They rose to fame after securing investment on Dragons’ Den. \nA weekend of incredible celebrity chef demonstrations\, regional food & drink traders & local entertainers awaits.  \n\nRead More
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DESCRIPTION:At the Yorkshire Air Museum and Allied Air Forces Memorial at Elvington near York there will be events held over three days\, to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day. On May 8th itself there will be be a Memorial Service in our chapel at 11.30\, led by the Museum’s chaplain. This is open to all visitors. \nThe big celebration takes place on May 10th and 11th\, with our annual wartime weekend\, ‘We’ll Meet Again’.\n1940s re-enactors\, vehicles\, displays and demonstrations will take place against the backdrop of the Museum’s Halifax bomber and Dakota paratrooper aircraft\, on the site of a former RAF WW2 bomber base. \nThis is an annual event but has a VE Day twist\, with a street party taking place over the weekend. Bring your own picnic and join in the celebrations\, or buy food from our café and share the tables with other visitors.\nNormal museum admission applies. More details www.yorkshireairmuseum.org/events \nWe’ll Meet Again and VE Day Memorial service at Yorkshire Air Museum
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SUMMARY:The K Class Submarines - aka the Kalamity Class and the Suicide Club
DESCRIPTION: \n\nThis lecture will tell the story of the K Class submarine; its design issues\, the lessons learned and remembering the many men who perished.\n\n\n\nDuring World War I\, it was decided to build submarines which were fast enough to keep pace with surface ships. Equipped with steam turbines to produce sufficient power\, they were as large as modern nuclear submarines. The engines were a success\, but the submarines were an ill-conceived concept in other regards. Geoff Horseman will describe incidents which led to these vessels becoming known as the “Kalamity Class” and an appointment as a crew member became known as joining “the Suicide Club”. Among these was a tragic event which was undisclosed for over 30 years and is not well known today. In the so-called ‘Battle of May Island’\, Royal Navy ships and submarines collided at night in the Firth of Forth early in 1918\, with great loss of life. In all\, more than 200 men died while serving onboard the K class. This lecture will tell the story of the K Class looking at some of the design issues with the submarines\, recalling lessons learned which should not be forgotten and remembering the many men who perished due to those mistakes. \nGeoff Horseman joined NEI Parsons Ltd. in 1980 as a graduate trainee engineer. In 1982\, he became a Design Engineer in the Steam Turbine Design Department\, subsequently rising to Head of Turbine Design in 1991. Following this\, in 1994\, he was appointed Head of Turbine-Generator Engineering at Parsons. In 1997\, Parsons became part of Siemens Power Generation with Westinghouse following in 1998. This led to Siemens Large Steam Turbine Engineering in Europe being focused primarily at two sites: Mülheim-an-der-Ruhr in Germany; and\, CA Parsons Works in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Geoff was appointed Chief Turbine Engineer for the Newcastle site and a Principal Expert on Steam Turbines within Siemens globally. He continued in these roles until his retirement in 2019. Since retirement\, Geoff has been working full time on documenting the Parsons history while original records still exist for preservation in museums. It was during this work that he discovered the story of the K Class submarines which he will describe in this lecture. \n17:30-18:00 – Tea and Coffee \n18:00-18:50 – In-person only Lecture Starts \n18:50 to 19:00 – Q & A \nWelcome to our NEIMME Lecture. NEIMME is the Royal Chartered membership organisation for Engineering\, Science and Technology in the North.\nFor more information about our events and the benefits of NEIMME membership see: https://mininginstitute.org.uk/membership/\nFor information on IOM3 membership see: https://www.iom3.org/ \nK-Class Submarines
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