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(l-r)Sarah Malone, Music teacher and Helen Cobain, Design and Technology teacher
A North East academy trust is providing face visors for the region’s key workers as the fight against COVID-19 continues. Staff at St Joseph’s Catholic Academy in Hebburn, South Tyneside, part of the Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust, have made over 500 face visors, distributing them to a range of...
A number of North Tyneside businesses have turned their creative hands and organisational skills to making uniform bags and comforting hearts for NHS staff & care homes all across the region After a discussion with North Tyneside Business Forum, Kim Suleman from Six Penny Memories and Christine Breen from Mendy’s...
Hebburn Helps is a volunteer run, community food bank and crisis response team based in South Tyneside Children’s Centre They help struggling families in the area with food parcels, clothes, baby gear, and all sorts of household items from books to saucepans. Hebburn Helps are staying open to help families cope...
Zeera, South Shields' award-winning Indian restaurant, is donating weekly feast to NHS staff in thanks for their hard work Zeera restaurant will feed at least 30 NHS staff at South Tyneside Hospital, delivering them a slap-up, morale boosting meal every week. Shahnoor Choudhury, owner of Zeera, said: “The work they do...
Lucy Craig, Managing Director of Craig Healthcare, provided live entertainment to residents from the car parks of their Cramlington and Longbenton care homes Cramlington House and West Farm Care Centre, which are both specialist residential and dementia care providers owned and managed by Craig Healthcare, invited Alfie Dobson to entertain...
Nick Kincaid, a partner with Hadaway and Hadaway in North Shields, was elected President of the Newcastle upon Tyne Law Society on 2nd March 2020. The Society was established in 1826 and Nick is the 194th President. Hadaway and Hadaway was founded in 1901 by Stanley Hadaway, who was later...
Work is underway on a new assisted living development in Scotswood, with plans for an onsite restaurant and smashing views across the Tyne. 45 one and two bed apartments and nine two bed bungalows are being built by Tolent, on behalf of the Council. The homes will provide onsite care...
A life-sized cloth woman from Newcastle has started work on the Isle of Wight, with people with learning disabilities. Josephine, an anatomically accurate fabric character licensed from Newcastle-based charity, The Josephine and Jack Project, was made by North East seamstress Sarah Johnson, and is expecting a specially-made, life-sized cloth man,...
Lufthansa now offers a new route, six flights a week, Sunday to Friday, to Munich, Bavaria’s capital city. Passengers on the new service were welcomed at check-in at Newcastle Airport with an inaugural celebration.  Munich is renowned for its annual Oktoberfest, beer halls, classical music, and iconic landmarks such as the...
Chief medical officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, has announced the Coronavirus UK debut, with the first two patients currently in a High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) unit in Newcastle. Although the name of the hospital has not been officially announced, it's going to be Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI),...

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