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International Animation Conference Comes to Teesside
Global experts in animation are due to converge on Teesside University from across the world this summer to share their knowledge. The 33rd Society for Animation Studies (SAS) Conference will bring together around 200 international delegates, including animation scholars and practitioners, to share and present their research. Held at a different...
Free Heart Checks on Wheels: Newcastle's 'Your Heart Matters Bus' Offers Lifesaving Screenings
September 2023 – Cardiologists from Freeman Hospital and UK initiative, Valve for Life, will be offering FREE heart checks on a heart bus in an attempt to find people who could be unaware that they have heart valve disease. In the UK as many as one in 10...
Mental Health Charity Supports Employability Programme to Help People With Disabilities get into Work
Mental health charity, Mental Health Concern, is lead partner of an employability programme, Moving On Tyne & Wear who help people with a health barrier, disability, additional learning need, or autism, get into employment, training, or volunteering. Since the Moving On Tyne & Wear programme launched in 2017, 75% of...
homelessness
Newcastle is to join other cities around the world in a bid to help up to a million homeless people. New York, New Delhi, Chicago, Dublin and Barcelona are just some of the cities that will be taking part in the World’s Big Sleepout on 7th December 2019. This project will...
neanderthal
Abrupt changes in climate may have been a significant cause of Europe’s Neanderthal humans dying out. That’s according to recent research involving academics from Newcastle’s Northumbria University. A research team – also comprising academics from Germany, Romania and the USA – studied stalactites in two Romanian caves. As stalactites grow in thin...
teaching award
A Newcastle primary school has won a teaching award so prestigious it is dubbed an ‘Oscar of education’. St John’s Primary School has received a Silver Teaching Award from the Pearson’s National Teaching Awards, beating thousands of other schools to scoop the honour. St John’s is one of only 68 schools...
NORTHEAST BASED BRAND ECLECTIC RELEASES DEBUT SAMPLE COLLECTION
The debut ECLECTIC Fall Winter 21 collection speaks to the very heart of simplicity. It breaks down the very barriers of what it means to be ECLECTIC, redefining the meaning. Hailing from Newcastle upon Tyne, ECLECTIC est. 2020, aims to show the world that the Newcastle upon Tyne is a...
green grass
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....
photo courtesy of Draco2008, from Flickr Creative Commons
A £3.64 million investment has been announced which will hopefully ease traffic congestion and cut journey times across the north east.  The cash will be used to upgrade traffic signals on the region’s key routes. It will also be spent on Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras and variable message...
A Flavorful Fusion: Celebrating International Women's Day with Local Cafe Collaboration
In celebration of International Women's Day, a delightful collaboration between two local cafes is set to sweeten two local businesses. Emily Cromarty and Rachel Holmes, co-owners of the artesian R Place Cafe in North Shields, have joined forces with Sangeeta Chopra, owner of Namaste Taste of India Cafe in the...

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