Life imitates art.  Art imitates life.   Anthony Gormley’s Angel of the North dominates the landscape above Gateshead. It’s 20 metres tall with a wing span of 54 metres, wider than most aircraft, making it the largest sculpture of an angel in the world. This is Tyne and Wear, closed-down mine and closed-down shipbuilding country, waiting to be ‘levelled up.’  The region is home of Newcastle United football club, where before home games fans belt out Jimmy Nail’s song ‘Big River’ about the river Tyne and the industry that once used to dominate it. The song includes the defiant lines ‘everything they’ve tried…

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