Throughout the years Newcastle United have suffered with their ups and downs during their time in the Premier League. Newcastle have completed 24 seasons in the Premier League, finishing in the top four on five different occasions, but unfortunately have also ended up in the bottom half 12 times...
A Newcastle student has launched an innovative business to help save the world’s oceans from the perils of pollution.
Nathan Smith, 21 – a second-year Entrepreneurial Business Management (EBM) student at Northumbria University – has established a start-up that aims to reduce the problems caused by ghostnets and pollution from...
A garden created to meet the needs of people with mobility problems and dementia has opened to the public – after securing £10,000 in funding.
The Scotswood Garden received the £10,000 grant from the housing provider Your Homes Newcastle (YHN).
The money – from YHN’s new Community Investment Funding pot –...
Newcastle East End Football Club is one of the UK’s most successful community clubs with its 49 teams consistently winning trophy after trophy both regionally and nationally. Success on the pitch is mirrored by the Club’s phenomenal popularity, with hundreds of people from the Byker, Walker and Walkergate communities...
A
very special government agent has helped sniff out illegal tobacco in Newcastle.
Scamp the sniffer dog joined an operation run by Newcastle City Council’s Trading Standards Team and Staff from HMRC.
Operation
Beagle was a three-day project targeting shops in Newcastle’s West End. During
the operation, 183,360 cigarettes and 46.2 kilos of rolling...
Hopes
of reopening Elswick Pool received a boost this week.
Despite
being at the heart of the local community, the pool closed on 31st
October 2015.
But
now Newcastle City Council have announced they will hand over the pool’s lease
to the Elswick Community Pool and Leisure charity, an organisation whose board
is exclusively made up...
Businesses
in Newcastle and the surrounding area can now get help to slash their energy
bills – providing vital savings and helping to reduce the emission of global warming
gases.
The Business Energy Saving Team is a new initiative that will advise small and medium-sized businesses on how to lower their fuel bills.
Companies
in...
International
Women’s Day 2019 (8th March) will see an unusual event taking place
in the centre of Newcastle.
Grey’s
Monument is to be covered in hundreds of red pompoms and will fly red streamers
from its top.
The
monument will be decorated in this way to protest against the stigma which is
still associated with periods and...
Counterfeit
vodka capable of causing blindness may be on sale in Newcastle.
Newcastle
Trading Standards yesterday issued an alert to the public to keep an eye out
for Radanoff – a fake brand of vodka which might contain industrial alcohol.
Some
Radanoff has already been seized by Hull City Council and officials are warning
that bottles...
Some
of the world’s greatest soul music legends are to play Sage Gateshead in May.
The
Soul Train Tour – put together by the producer, promoter and celebrity David
Gest – has been entertaining music lovers across the world for the last decade.
Gest
– who was a close friend of Michael Jackson, a judge...
