Newcastle United hero Alan Shearer is to undergo a series of dementia tests as part of an upcoming BBC documentary.
In Dementia – Football’s Silent Shame, Mr Shearer will investigate whether years spent heading footballs make ex-soccer professionals more likely to suffer from the condition.
It is suspected that brain damage...
A one-of-a-kind film and music experience: The Magical Music of Harry Potter - Live in
Concert, now with a Weasley - Chris Rankin!
The concert features the best music from the
films with the London Symphonic & Philharmonic Film Orchestra.
The Harry Potter films are some of the most successful in the history...
A cruise ship company sailing out of the Port of Tyne has hit upon a novel way to entertain its guests. This September will see the ship Magellan embarking for a water-borne rock festival entitled Rock the Boat 2017.
Cruise ship firm Cruiseco hopes its idea will appeal to rock...
Tonight Newcastle’s shoppers have the chance to enjoy an evening of Christmas fun at Newcastle’s oldest retail destination, Grainger Market.
As well as browsing stalls selling a range of Christmas goods, visitors can experience music, dancing, a bar, street food, tasters, art, and special classes and activities. Discounts will be...
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...
McDonald’s has celebrated 30 years of fundraising for Ronald McDonald House Charities UK by throwing birthday parties in their restaurants throughout the UK.
McDonald’s is the biggest supporter of the charity – contributing an estimated £100 million over the last 30 years, via its collection boxes and fundraising efforts of...
A Newcastle student has started an innovative new business – selling rare, out-of-stock trainers. And his customers include some household names.
Ollie Simpson, 21, started his business – The SoleScene – two years ago, as part of an assignment for his degree in Entrepreneurial Business Management (EBM) at Northumbria University.
Ollie...
American R ‘n’ B stars The Stylistics – famous for hits like You Make Me Feel Brand New, You Are Everything and Betcha by Golly Wow – will play Gateshead Sage on 26th October.
A vocal group, The Stylistics formed in Philadelphia in 1966 from a merger of two bands,...
Newcastle’s thriving grassroots football scene could soon be benefitting from a large-scale investment.
The city has taken a step closer to being accepted into the Parklife programme – a grassroots football initiative that could pump millions of pounds into footballing facilities in the city.
Parklife is a five-year project that aims...
Newcastle-based scientists have created a new type of super-light material – after taking inspiration from the wings of dragonflies.
An international team of experts, led by scientists from Newcastle University, has come up with an innovative form of the material aerogel.
As well as being ultra-light, aerogel is the most porous...
