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Middlesbrough is set to cast off its smoggy reputation with the installation of a lung cleaning experience at its railway station. The immersive structure is being created by artist and curator [...]

Festival of Thrift fever is starting to build with the announcement of some advance programme highlights including pollution dancers, the triumphant return of Cowcar, a band that was a big hit [...]

Preparations are getting underway for this year’s Festival of Thrift and it looks like it’s going to be out of this world! Creative students at Stockton Riverside College Group have been letting [...]

A Teessider is heading home to create a menu of Cambodian cuisine to tantalise taste buds at this year’s Festival of Thrift. Andrew Humphrey, pictured below, who lives in London but is originally [...]

An artist is transforming air pollution into art as part of the focus on clean air at this year’s Festival of Thrift. Peter J. Evans, 42, pictured left, an artist who has exhibited nationally and [...]

The organiser of the Festival of Thrift’s Oxglam fashion show is on the lookout for people with a passion for sustainable fashion. Designers, sewers and makers with an eye for creating fabulous, [...]

Changing the way we eat can help to save the planet, but shopping and eating sustainably is not always easy, says the expert behind the Festival of Thrift’s mouth-watering food programme. Simon [...]

Creative make-up students from Stockton Riverside College are using messages about climate change in their end of year show after being inspired by working at last year’s Festival of Thrift. The [...]

Last year’s Festival of Thrift delivered a welcome boost for the local economy and its key messages about sustainability reached audiences across the country. Figures produced by market research [...]

Thousands of people have attended this year’s Festival of Thrift. Festival-goers turned out in their droves for the 2018 event in spite of bad weather warnings and chillier temperatures for an [...]