York Minster has stood at the heart of its city for centuries. But permanence is an illusion. For Alex McCallion, the man charged with helping secure its future, custodianship now means confronting climate change, fragile stone, planning orthodoxy, financial reality and a fundamental question: if we truly want to conserve our greatest buildings, must we also allow them to change?

When Joe Hodgson was asked to celebrate Goole’s bicentenary, he avoided the heritage clichés and wrote from inside the town instead. MagNorth meets the Sandra’s Wedding songwriter whose poems, records and civic imagination all begin with the same radical act: paying attention

In Flagging, filmmaker Jon King meets seven people divided by flags, migration and belonging. What emerges is not a verdict, but a troubling and unexpectedly hopeful portrait of a country struggling to hear itself

A monumental new artwork has transformed an overlooked Newcastle wall. But behind it, something much more significant is taking shape: a new creative campus offering North East talent another route into music, performance, film and television - and another reason not to leave the region to begin

When MagNorth joined the launch of Culture Start, Sunderland made a bold promise: children deserved opportunity by design, not accident. Fourteen-year-old Belle Collier - and the £500 bursary that helped her family meet the price of participation - shows us what that promise means in practice

Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant brings the star wattage, but Durham Book Festival’s 2026 programme makes a much larger case for northern stories, working-class voices and the increasingly vital act of reading

After a decade of extraordinary victories, brutal injuries and unforgiving public scrutiny, Molly McCann could have chosen a quieter life. Instead, the Liverpool fighter is beginning again - carrying with her a childhood shaped by uncertainty, a city that taught her not to give in, and a determination to make the road wider for those coming behind

A felled oak, a boyhood in Scriven and a bunch of flowers carried home from a garage have found their way into Thomas James Butler’s most personal exhibition. In Harrogate, the Yorkshire artist asks us to look again at the natural world - while there is still time

On a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust walk at Spurn, MagNorth explores erosion, wildlife, military history and the power of helping young people connect with conservation

Before the Olympics, the belts and Manchester’s arenas, there was Sale West - the family gym where Pat Brown learned that boxing is really about making good people

Across the Dales and North York Moors, more than 180 businesses are asking visitors to put down their phones, pick up a pen and send somebody a little piece of their holiday

Created in two months, funded from one animator’s pocket and built to travel between grassroots venues, LED ON brings an hour of original animation and independent northern music to Newcastle’s Cumberland Arms. Its modest beginnings conceal a rather audacious idea