The weather forecast for the next few days reads sunny, pleasantly warm, rising to sunny, extremely hot on Monday. I'm in Perth - or Cricket City Perth as it's currently styled - which is marketing itself hard to make the most of its share of the biggest Test Series in the game's history.Read
The third annual Anti-Bullying Week took place in the UK at the end of November. Bullying is a growing problem, with schoolchildren's lives damaged as a result of repeated physical or mental attacks.Read
After a fairly dismal first Test, this may not be the best time to admit I have chosen to spend Christmas and New Year travelling to the Ashes Test Matches in Australia and New Zealand.Read
Let's do some joined-up thinking, eat some reality sandwiches and run this idea up the flagpole to see who salutes. We are obsessed with meaningless business jargon.Read
It's now over a week since I returned from Beijing and Shanghai. So much activity, noise and pollution are bewildering. The shelter of Corbridge came as a welcome relief.Read
It's nothing like blue skies at Beijing at the moment. This huge city has been in a frenzy of preparation for the 2008 Olympics for years, but it appears it cannot win the battle of the sky.Read
It's hard to keep up with airline news. After a bleak few weeks of cancelled flights, rigorous luggage restrictions and one airline packing up entirely from Durham Tees Valley, there appeared to be few silver linings for our airports or for budget flight fans like me.Read
People love Newcastle. The city has just been voted the UK's fourth favourite city in the Conde Nast Traveller survey, weeks after it was voted one of the most popular destinations in the UK for families moving house according to Move Monitor.Read
This is the month of exam results, ending a time of sleepless stress for parents, teachers and thousands of nail-biting, hair-pulling, teeth-gnashing students. Exams are bad, but waiting for results is much, much worse.Read
Community spirit can be a powerful weapon. When local people band together to make something happen it can change lives, economies and the future prospects of an area.Read
How did you book your holiday this year? I bet you at least looked at the internet, even if you eventually booked through a high street travel agent.Read
Nicholas Craig is a partner at Watson Burton law firm. Previously one of the leading commercial and corporate law partners with Eversheds Newcastle, Nicholas has particular inward and outward investment expertise. He also has unusually broad experience of acting for clients with interests in the Far East and Asia, and decided to join Watson Burton LLP to broaden the development of his interest in inward and outward investment.
