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From Middlesbrough to
Miami via Madrid. Presenting
Teessider Kay Murray…
Welcome to the Spring 2018
issue of Tees Life – Teesside’s
lifestyle magazine.
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iddlesbrough, Madrid and
Miami. It’s not often you see
those three names in the same
sentence. But the three M’s knit
together the incredible story of Kay Murray,
the cover star of this issue of Tees Life.
Back in the Summer of 2003, Middlesbrough
Football Club had never won a major trophy
and Kay was out of work. Less than 12 months
later, Boro lifted silverware in the shape of the
Carling Cup, while their young fan had begun
her own remarkable change in fortunes after
landing a job with the club’s television station,
Boro TV.
The launchpad to a career that means
she’s now far more famous to US-based
football fans than she is in her own hometown
was the day she was one of the winners of
a Boro Babe modelling competition run by
Middlesbrough FC.
As the club’s Media and Communications
manager at the time, I was one of those who
chose Kay to be a model for the new-look
Boro kit. She was slightly older, definitely more
confident and certainly more ambitious than
her fellow models – but no one could ever have
predicted what she would go on to achieve as
a football presenter. Though I’m happy to take
just a little credit for giving her a kickstart!
Tees Life is all about celebrating what’s great
Tees Life co-editors Dave Allan (left) and Martin Walker.
about Teesside – the fantastic places for food
and entertainment, the wonderful homes and
lifestyle and the amazing success stories of our
people.
When I tell people that our aim is keep
featuring Teesside’s personalities as our cover
stories in Tees Life, I’m occasionally given a
withering look, a knowing smile and words to
the effect of “Well, you’ll soon run out of cover
features then.”
The list of names on my office wall of
Teessiders we’d like to interview in future
issues tells a very different story. Those names
will keep us going for years to come. There
are famous names – sportspeople, actors and
actresses, musicians, artists and comedians
– but many others whose story is equally
fascinating.
And we do plan to be around for many years
to come, celebrating all that makes Teesside
such a fantastic to place to live.
We hope you enjoy reading the Spring 2018
issue of Tees Life. As passionate Teessiders,
putting the magazine together is a true labour
of love for my co-editor Martin Walker and I.
And we plan to go on expanding it, shouting
from the rooftops about all that’s good about
the area we love.
Dave Allan
17 FINE DINE
WITH WINE
A review of Rockliffe Hall’s
new ten-course tasting menu
26 TEES LIFESTYLE
Charity leader and
businessman Andy Preston
talks about his Teesside
life, his achievements and
disappointments
28 BEAUTIFUL
BATHROOMS
Washroom wonders from
Teesside homes on the market
32 TIMELESS
ELEGANCE
Teel Life looks inside
and outside one of
Middlesbrough’s finest homes,
where Edwardian elegance
meets authentic English
architectural genius...
49 THE BIG TEES
Award-winning writer Harry
Pearson’s new column,
exclusive to Tees Life
Co-editor, Tees Life
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CONTACTS
Tees Life www.tees-life.co.uk
Published & distributed by:
Resolution Media & Publishing Ltd
Boho Four Gibson House, Cleveland Street,
Middlesbrough, TS2 1AY
Tel: 01642 450255 Email: [email protected]
www.resolutionpublishing.co.uk
Co-editors: Martin Walker and Dave Allan.
Contributors to this issue: Michael McGeary, Graham Courtney, Harry Pearson,
Jennifer Beveridge, Jeremy O’Connor, Sam Tate, Paul Smith, Grace Porter.
Photography: Martin Walker, Doug Moody, Dave Allan. Cover & Main Feature: Chris Booth.
Design: KINSHIP
Printed by: MV Print, Middlesbrough.
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