It’s going to take more than a splash of rain to ruin a northerner’s night out. 3. Calling lunch ‘dinner’ He was the master of self-deprecating humour and the mother-in-law joke, all delivered in his broad North East accent. Norman Cornish A singer/songwriter whose voice became imprinted on the minds of all who watched the TV programme When The Boat Comes In with his rendition of “Dance Ti Thy Daddy”. Glasgow was also a writer, penning episodes for the first series of the programme. A famous collaboration with Alan Plater and Sid Chaplin led to the 1968 musical Close the Coalhouse Door. A socialist and political animal, he got into trouble in 1970 when he sang a song on the BBC about selling bombs to apartheid South Africa. Tim Healy

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Northerners also shows how the past echoes down the centuries. The devastation of factory and pit closures in the 1980s, for example, recalled the trauma of William the Conqueror’s Harrying of the North. The book charts how the North-South divide has ebbed and flowed and explores the very real divisions between Northerners. Known to her many fans as Cheryl Tweedy, then Cheryl Cole, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini and now simply Cheryl, she rose to fame after winning a place in Girls Aloud, a girl group created through ITV’s Popstars: The Rivals. She later became a popular judge in the similar talent spotting programme X Factor. Miriam Stoppard Born into a working class family - his dad looked after pit ponies - he studied fine art at the University of Newcastle and later became a pottery teacher in London, all the while aiming for a career in music. Ferry formed Roxy Music in 1970 with a group of friends and acquaintances, including Newcastle drummer Paul Thompson. Roxy Music’s first single, Virginia Plain, was a top 10 hit, the beginning of a rich seam of chart topping successes and multi-million selling albums as well as a successful solo career. Alan Plater I just love pies and southerners don't get it." – Richard, Manchester Why do you love gravy so much?

There is no denying that people who live in the North of the UK have very different characteristics from those living in the South, which leads to intense rivalry between the two. Everything north of London is the North if you think about it." – Will, Hull What do you mean you don't call it a bread roll? Posh, southern boys love to tell me how brilliant Margaret Thatcher was for the UK…" – Naomi, Cheshire

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Most Northerners who spend even five minutes down there will come to understand that this stereotype is in fact accurate. We may hail from the same country but the difference between northerners and southerners can be abundantly clear. Living costs up north are actually affordable and the standard of living is just as good, if not better. A writer for children and young adults, he has penned several novels, each to critical acclaim. His best known work is his debut novel, Skellig, set in Newcastle, which won the Whitbread Children’s Novel of the Year Award and also the Carnegie Medal. It has also been adapted into a play, an opera and a film. He is one of just three UK authors to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, ‘the world’s most prestigious prize in children’s literature’. Jimmy Forsyth Yes, this might be hard for southerners to swallow, but many in the north actually refer to lunchtime as ‘dinner’.Mike was a local TV legend as anchorman for BBC Look North and Tyne Tees Television. As a young man he had worked in repertory theatre for Newcastle Playhouse. He joined the new station Tyne Tees Television in 1962 briefly presenting their North East Newsview programme in 1964 before moving to BBC Look North. Neville returned to Tyne Tees to present North East Tonight in 1996 up until his retirement in 2005. David Olusoga Best-known as one of the ‘Hairy Bikers’ along with fellow biker and fellow cook Dave Myers, the pair are a fixture on our TV screens. Si was assistant location manager on Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and location manager on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. He met Dave Myers in 1995 on the set of a TV drama entitled The Gambling Man, on which he was the second assistant director. Mike Neville A popular Soap actress who has appeared in the likes of Coronation Street, Waterloo Road and EastEnders, and was most recently seen on our screens in the recent BBC drama Dark Money. She began her acting career at the age of 14 in the BBC television children’s drama series Byker Grove, based of course in Newcastle, in which she appeared alongside the likes of Ant and Dec. Francis George "Franc" Roddam Best known for portraying Val Pollard in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale for many years, during that time she also starred in the 2000 comedy film Purely Belter, Billy Elliot and won the best actress award at the Monte Carlo International Television Festival in 1998 for her role in Amber Films’ The Scar, about a County Durham pit community in crisis. Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth

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Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day, by Brian Groom, published by HarperCollins (Image: HarperCollins) Rodney Bewes and James Bolam as Bob Ferris and Terry Collier in the BBC sitcom Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads (Image: BBC) Figures such as King Oswald of Northumbria, Saint Cuthbert and Bede, Victorian heroine Grace Darling, reformers Josephine Butler, Mary Astell and Emily Davies, Jarrow MP Ellen Wilkinson, railway pioneers George and Robert Stephenson and engineer William Armstrong feature prominently in Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day by journalist Brian Groom.A theoretical physicist, emeritus professor in the University of Edinburgh and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles. He was thrust into the limelight after the elusive fundamental particle that bears his name was found by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider. A NASA astronaut, his flight on the 2006 Discovery STS-116 mission made him the fourth person born in the United Kingdom to go into space. Born in Saltburn, his family lived for a number of years in Great Ayton where legendary explorer Captain James Cook was educated, before emigrating to the US. He has logged more than 638 hours in space on shuttles Discovery and Endeavour. He has also carried out three space walks and in 2010, carried a flag modeled on that which flew on Captain Cook’s Endeavour to the International Space Station. Suzannah Clarke Samling Foundation 'A Night at the Italian Opera' at Sage Gateshead. Sir Thomas Allen, baritone, at the Samling concert (Image: Newcastle Chronicle) A moral philosopher who made enormous contributions to human thinking on questions such as the self, our animal heritage and our place in the universe. She was a senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University, and wrote her first book, Beast And Man (1978), when she was in her fifties, and went on to write over 15 more. Alison Kay

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And don’t bother trying to argue that the southern way is the correct way to pronounce certain words, you’ll be fighting a losing battle. Friends creator reveals Matthew Perry was ‘happy and chipper’ in final conversation before tragic death at 54 Born in Newcastle and raised in Cramlington, Ross is one of the country’s top stand up comics as well as one of its most original.

Southerners, on the other hand, sometimes refer to people from the North as “northern monkeys,” which means they think northerners are uncultured. A TV executive who became one of the most influential and innovative figures in the broadcasting industry. In a TV career stretching nearly 40 years, Mrs Wonfor – born in Canterbury but moved to the region in 1966 – became renowned for spotting and nurturing some of the most talented people in TV, and for making memorable and inspired programmes in a huge variety of different genres, including The Tube, The Big Breakfast, The Word and Byker Grove. Terry Deary A statue of World War Two Victoria Cross winner Capt Richard Wallace Annand, from South Shields (Image: Newcastle Chronicle) Although the north is actually not too dissimilar to the south, or particularly far away from it, there are many aspects of the northern life that southerners simply don’t understand. The beer we drink up here is no different to the beer southerners are drinking down there – the only difference is the price.