This week saw the launch of Newcastle’s Best Summer Ever (NBSE). The NBSE programme will see Newcastle kids enjoying arts and crafts, sports and physical activities, and nutritious meals during the summer holidays.
It’s estimated that more than 26,700 children in Newcastle live in deprived areas and that 10,344 of...
Local online community radio station Radio Gateshead is celebrating its first birthday.
Radio Gateshead, which broadcasts LIVE 24 hours a day online, provides a local service of news, community information and great music.
The station launched on 5th June 2021 and has been incredibly popular, helping thousands of local residents during...
Newcastle’s Blackett Street may close to traffic this festive season, with the city set to enjoy a ‘bumper’ Christmas market. And the council are looking at ways to make the street into a permanent pedestrian zone.
The ‘bumper’ Christmas market will be a festive extravaganza that will combine Newcastle’s usual...
Now the clocks have gone back, the nights are drawing in and Bonfire Night is approaching, efforts are being made to keep Newcastle safe during the darker months of autumn, winter and spring.
The Darker Nights campaign will see Newcastle City Council teaming up with a number of partners to...
STAFF AND members of a Washington gym scaled The Old Man of Coniston to raise funds for a leading North East charity.
Pinchaninch Body Transformation Centre owners Darren and Nichola Tyrie joined personal trainers and more than 60 of their gym regulars to climb the mountain at the Lake District...
The Opera Boys are coming back to Tyneside this April, bringing their mix of opera, West End show tunes and pop classics to the Customs House, South Shields.
The Opera Boys – all four of whom are classically trained singers – have quite a varied CV between them. Members of...
Are you a homeowner or private tenant in Newcastle with an old, inefficient boiler? Do you struggle to pay your energy bills?
If so, you could be eligible for a FREE boiler from the ECO 4 Scheme!
The ECO 4 Scheme is a government-backed initiative that provides free energy efficiency measures...
Get ready for an extraordinary musical bus tour, dedicated to celebrating the very songs that parents once loathed!
Welcome to the "Turn That Racket Down!" tour, an exclusive event happening on Sunday, August 13th.
We kindly request passengers with a particular sensitivity to wear earplugs for a more enjoyable...
Newcastle’s shoppers are being encouraged to express their creative sides – with the help of the resident artist at the city’s historic Grainger Market.
As part of the Great Exhibition of the North, Mike Duckett has been painting, sketching and scribbling at the market all summer.
Though the exhibition is due...
It might sound like science fiction, but Newcastle researchers – and big tech companies – believe it may soon be commonplace for devices implanted in our bodies to link our brains with computers.
Such devices – it is thought – could help with diseases like Alzheimer’s, allow us to ‘type’...
