Residents, families and members of the local community from Northumberland came together to enjoy the festivities at Holywell House Care Centre in Holywell, as they raised a whopping £1,165 at their annual Christmas fayre.
The team at Holywell House organised an afternoon of fun activities, including stalls selling homemade cards,...
A north-east festival is to celebrate the region’s seafaring past.
The Sunderland River Festival, on Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September, will see street theatre, live music, water-based entertainment and even an enormous inflatable whale.
The family friendly event will be taking place on both sides of the River Wear...
GROUPS HEADING to a popular winter pop-up this weekend can enjoy live music, festive food and drink and a special visit from some VIP guests.
Winter Wonderland, at South Shields’ Ocean Beach Pleasure Park, has been entertaining guests with a real ice rink, fairground rides and more since it opened...
THE heartrendingly bleak Christmas in store for some of Northumberland’s most vulnerable children has been laid bare by a country pub, which has stepped in to help them.
When The Percy Arms, at Chatton, was asked if it could help provide gifts for underprivileged children in the region, staff and...
Newcastle has made eighth place in a leaderboard of the UK’s top greenest cities.
Scores were calculated for UK cities based on four categories - nature, transport, emissions and sustainability.
London scored highest as investment in solar outshone the rest of the cities at £149,126 per million pounds of council budget....
A team of researchers led by experts from Newcastle University has highlighted how slick, well-designed websites and apps can be used to sell high-cost loans to poor and vulnerable people.
The websites include sliders that customers can play around with, brightly coloured ‘apply now’ buttons, forms that are simple to...
The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) is making one final fundraising push to reach their goal of becoming a 24/7 service across the whole of the North.
The charity has launched several fundraisers on Facebook which could help fund essential pieces of equipment which are used in and around...
Review: The Standing Water (Steel String Books) by David Castleton
“Quality fiction with a gothic edge”
Maybe nowhere in England is all that remote, but some places can still feel isolated. Perhaps you’re only 15 miles from the nearest dual carriageway, but when glowering clouds mass overhead, when the mist...
The premier organization in the UK responsible for conferring qualifications in deaf communication and British Sign Language has found a delicious avenue to disseminate crucial information.
This achievement comes in the wake of their victory in an online competition.
Signature is based in Durham but provides services nationwide to promote...
Northern has released details of the most popular routes on its network for student commuters.
Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire & West Yorkshire are riding high with large numbers of stations being used by students for their commute to school (highlighted in green on the map). At the same time,...
