An award-winning North East charity that recently unveiled its new kitchen after nearly three years without one has received a surprising boost from a renowned figure in the culinary world.
Kids Kabin, which has bases in Newcastle and Middlesbrough, opened its new kitchen facility at the start of this year,...
Newcastle's well-loved shopping and dining destination, Eldon Square, has partnered with the North East Autism Society to organise a range of events and experiences in support of the centre's autistic and neurodivergent community for Autism Acceptance Week 2023.
To launch the event, on Saturday 25th March, Eldon Square will host...
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...
Codebreaking schoolgirls completed a series of cyber challenges at the regional final of a national competition hosted by Teesside University.
The girls put their cyber security knowledge to the test at the North East of England final of the 2022 CyberFirst Girls Competition, run by the National Cyber Security Centre...
Newcastle City Council has received a boost of over £16 million pounds in funding from central government. The money will be used to aid the construction of thousands of new homes.
The cash will be spent on infrastructure improvements, such as building new roads, drainage systems, junctions and a school....
Newcastle University now has three winners of the prestigious poetry honour the TS Eliot Prize among its staff.
Jacob Polley won this year’s TS Eliot Prize with his collection Jackself while Professor Sean O’Brien was awarded the same honour in 2007 for The Drowned Book.
Now Northern Irish poet Sinead Morrissey...
You might soon be able to enjoy a pint while watching a film below Newcastle’s streets in a plush underground cinema.
Everyman Cinemas has plans to open a two-screen venue beneath Newcastle’s Grey Street. The cinema would be in the basement of Earl Grey House, with its entrance behind Costa...
A group of Newcastle University students have been attempting to recreate the metal smelting techniques used by our prehistoric ancestors.
The students have been working with Jarrow Hall Anglo-Saxon Farm in South Tyneside to try to understand how materials like copper were made in the distant past.
Their experiments have been...
Dear Sir/Madam,
When utility company roadworks overrun, it’s motorists who pay the price with congestion, detours and longer journeys.
This is why I’ve announced a plan to crack down on works by utility companies overrunning. We are consulting on plans to toughen fines for utility companies if they overrun and increase...
Plans for two north-east councils to merge a range of services – including the administration of council tax, business rates, staff payroll, revenues and benefits – are now closer to being put into practice.
Newcastle City Council and Northumberland County Council would like to merge the provision of these ‘transactional...
