Teesside Gazette Teesside Gazette The Teesside Gazette is a newspaper serving the Teesside area of England. It is published by the Gazette Media Company Ltd, which is a regional arm of the Trinity Mirror group. The Teesside Gazette is written and published in Middlesbrough, along with many other publications. The Gazette Media Company Ltd is also well-known locally for being the publisher of the free Herald & Post newspaper. The "Teesside Gazette" is the most popular daily newspaper in Teesside, and has been an integral part of life in the area since 1869, when it was founded as the "North-Eastern Daily Gazette"
History of Durham University Russell Group. The idea of Durham University establishing a presence on Teesside was first floated in 1987 and planning began in earnest in 1988 for a "Birkbeck of the North" with around 1,000 students. Teesside was, at that time, the largest conurbation in Europe without a university, and the Teesside Development Corporation had recently been established to try to regenerate the area. In April 1989 a formal announcement was made that Teesside Polytechnic and Durham University were working together "in planning a major development in Higher Education in Cleveland and its adjacent areas". Stresses in the partnership arise in December