Enjoy good old-fashioned fun at Beamish, The Living Museum of the North this summer with den building, ice cream making, teddy bear trail and traditional live music.
There are fun-filled activities lined up every day during the local school holidays at the open-air museum for the Summer of Fun...
Children struggling with mental health problems during the pandemic are facing "agonisingly" long waits for treatment, a BBC investigation has found.
Data from half of England's services found one in five seen in the past year waited over 12 weeks for care.
Half of all mental health conditions...
Crowds are expected to line the streets of Newcastle as the Remembrance Sunday parade and service returns to the city after year’s events were moved online due to the pandemic.
While residents are encouraged to continue to follow hands, face and space guidance to reduce the risk of COVID spreading...
Brit Award winner Sam Fender goes in search of a musical hero from another era - the late, great, Alan Hull of Lindisfarne in this one-off BBC Four documentary.
Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius – the Alan Hull story traces the career of a man whose words and music put Newcastle and...
A film student at Newcastle University has been showing his documentaries at prestigious festivals all over the world.
Evripidis Karydis, who is studying for a PhD in Film Practice at Newcastle University, has had his films shown at festivals in Oaxaca, Mexico; Bucharest, Romania; Moscow, Russia; and Lille, France.
Screenings are...
A good way to help a charity is to “dig deep” but one North East charity is taking that literally by planting trees.
North East charity Bright Red has supported haematology treatment and research within the region since 1988. They are based at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital and receive no government...
Apart from being in Newcastle, what do the Discovery Museum, the Laing Art Gallery and Great North Museum have in common?
They are all partnering with a champion catering firm, Totally Delicious, to deliver “immediate emphasis on improved public refreshments and new menus, including traditional North East delicacies”, pledging a...
The Watson Family Charitable Trust is celebrating five years of supporting local young people and communities in the North East and beyond.
The Trust is a family affair with Chairman Ian Watson, his wife Claire and their three sons and family friend and lawyer Hugh Welch, senior partner at Muckle...
Alan Shearer used to be famous for being Alan Shearer, but to the young generation today, he's famous for being Hollie Shearer's dad.
You can have a listen to her first single, Leave Right Now, when it comes out Friday 31st January 2020, save the link here.
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My new single...
On Saturday the 8th June, Nashville rock outfit Lola Montez took to the stage at The Three Tuns in Gateshead. It’s safe to say that the entertainment was kept to an incredibly high standard during the evening throughout a long set list of around twenty songs.
Before the gig began...