North East England
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| September 2024 |
Billingham Biomass Power Station
As of this date, the old power station site remains undeveloped, indicating the project has not been completed as initially planned.
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| 2023 | Bass player Martin McAloon began touring and performing Prefab Sprout material as a solo artist. |
| 2021 |
Northumbria
The Northern Independence Party (NIP) attempts to stand a candidate, Thelma Walker, in the Hartlepool by-election, but is prevented due to pending Electoral Commission registration. Walker runs as an independent and loses her deposit with 250 votes.
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| 2019 |
Northumbria
Harold Elletson endorsed the incumbent Labour MP Cat Smith in the general election.
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| 2019 | LJ Ross publishes the murder-mystery novel 'Ryan's Christmas', which uses Chillingham Castle as its setting. |
| September 2019 | McAloon planned to release the album 'Femmes Mythologiques', which he had been working on since 2013, featuring previously unreleased material. |
| December 10 2018 | Paddy McAloon appeared on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, discussing unreleased material and revealing plans for a new album 'Femmes Mythologiques' planned for release in September 2019. During the interview, he played a segment of a song called 'Cleopatra'. |
| November 8 2018 | Rough Trade and Sony Music announced the availability of vinyl LP and CD versions of 'I Trawl the Megahertz', including a special white vinyl edition of 1000 copies. |
| September 2018 | The album 'I Trawl the Megahertz' was reissued on Sony Music as a Prefab Sprout record, as originally intended. |
| March 3 2017 | McAloon's manager Keith Armstrong posted a clip on Instagram of McAloon performing a new song 'America' on a camcorder. |
| 2015 |
Northumbria
Harold Elletson co-founds the Northern Party to campaign for better representation for Northern England.
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| 2015 |
Northumbria
Harold Elletson contests the Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency in the general election, receiving 0.4% of the vote and finishing last.
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| September 30 2014 |
Northumbria
Harold Elletson launches The Campaign for the North, an all-party pressure group aiming to re-create the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria as a federal state within the United Kingdom.
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| October 7 2013 | Released 'Crimson/Red' on Icebreaker records, a solo project where Paddy McAloon sang, played, and programmed all music, with the lead single being 'The Best Jewel Thief in the World'. |
| 2012 |
Billingham Biomass Power Station
Original expected completion date for the £200 million biomass power station project initiated by Gaia Power and developed by Aker Solutions.
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