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Ashleigh Walker

Ashleigh Walker is a writer and musician from Peterlee, County Durham, currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She plays bass and sings in the band Marginal Gains.

DMG 2025: A New Career in a New Town

It is now several decades since the collapse of the British coal industry. But in Peterlee — a ‘left behind’ former mining town in County Durham — utopian dreams are being revived through a combination of grassroots creativity and public funding.