WELCOME
Welcome
CON TEN TS
10 ROYLE
APPOINTMENT
Effervescent Pam is
still a Tees TV news
favourite…
Tees Life co-editors Dave Allan (left) and Martin Walker.
Welcome to the Summer 2018 issue
of Tees Life – Teesside’s lifestyle magazine.
F
or 35 years, Pam Royle has been the face
of Tyne Tees Television, presenting a
wide range of programmes and bringing
thousands of daily news bulletins into our homes.
We’re delighted to feature Pam, who lives in
Middleton St George, as the cover star of this
edition. As well as her high-profile role on our TV
screens, you can get to know more about Pam,
her background and her charity work in Michael
McGeary’s interview with her on pages 10-13.
We also feature another well-known Tees
personality in this issue as co-editor Dave Allan
sits down with former BBC Children’s TV
presenter Kirsten O’Brien in our lifestyle Q&A
on pages 26-27, where you can find out – among
many other things – that one of her claims to
fame is beating celebrity brainbox Johnny Ball on
TV’s The Weakest Link!
In our regular Me & My Motors feature, we
speak to Middlesbrough businessman Paul Hill,
who lists a white Lamborghini Gallardo among an
impressive list of personal cars worth more than
£350,000.
And in our Me & My Homes feature, Adam
Steel gets a guided tour around a Grade II listed
former granary, a four-bedroom semi-detached
near Nunthorpe which is now on the market.
Despite being a complimentary magazine,
printed and distributed around the Tees region
free of charge, we always strive to include a
majority of editorial content.
Indeed, this issue alone includes just 16 pages
of adverts out of 52 – that’s 70% editorial content,
with no cover price, which is way below the
average for standard magazines such as ours that
are funded by advertising and sponsored content.
We certainly can’t be accused of being an ad-
mag, and we believe there’s no other publication
offering this level of service across the Tees
region.
But, of course, we’re always looking for
advertising support, so please do get in touch with
us if you want to get involved in any future issues.
Our next magazine is due out in October, and
our deadline is September 28 – email info@tees-
life.co.uk to ask for more details.
We’ve also recently launched a new website, so
please take a look at tees-life.co.uk
Martin Walker
Co-editor, Tees Life
17 TURKISH
DELIGHT
Michael McGeary
reviews the popular
Middlesbrough
Turkish restaurant
Meze Lounge…
26 TEES
LIFESTYLE
Boro-born Kirsten
O’Brien on her Tees
life and loves…
28 GRAND
GRANARY
Tees Life gets a
guided tour around
The Granary, a barn
conversion with a
touch of style and
class…
39 THAT’S
A WRAP!
Yarm School students
wrap Porsche 911
as part of design
competition…
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Co-editors: Martin Walker and Dave Allan.
Contributors to this issue: Adam Steel, Michael McGeary, Graham Courtney,
Harry Pearson, Jennifer Beveridge, Anthony Long.
Photography: Martin Walker, Doug Moody, Lyndsey McGeary, Nick Dent.
Design: KINSHIP
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