Hopes
of reopening Elswick Pool received a boost this week.
Despite
being at the heart of the local community, the pool closed on 31st
October 2015.
But
now Newcastle City Council have announced they will hand over the pool’s lease
to the Elswick Community Pool and Leisure charity, an organisation whose board
is exclusively made up...
Businesses
in Newcastle and the surrounding area can now get help to slash their energy
bills – providing vital savings and helping to reduce the emission of global warming
gases.
The Business Energy Saving Team is a new initiative that will advise small and medium-sized businesses on how to lower their fuel bills.
Companies
in...
International
Women’s Day 2019 (8th March) will see an unusual event taking place
in the centre of Newcastle.
Grey’s
Monument is to be covered in hundreds of red pompoms and will fly red streamers
from its top.
The
monument will be decorated in this way to protest against the stigma which is
still associated with periods and...
Counterfeit
vodka capable of causing blindness may be on sale in Newcastle.
Newcastle
Trading Standards yesterday issued an alert to the public to keep an eye out
for Radanoff – a fake brand of vodka which might contain industrial alcohol.
Some
Radanoff has already been seized by Hull City Council and officials are warning
that bottles...
Some
of the world’s greatest soul music legends are to play Sage Gateshead in May.
The
Soul Train Tour – put together by the producer, promoter and celebrity David
Gest – has been entertaining music lovers across the world for the last decade.
Gest
– who was a close friend of Michael Jackson, a judge...
Many
of us would classify ourselves as either night owls or early birds. While early
birds may thrive best and be more alert in the morning or early afternoon,
night owls feel more active and productive in the late evening or wee hours.
But
have you ever wondered which tendency is the best for...
A
study has found that large quantities of global-warming gases could be escaping
from melting ice on Greenland.
An
international team of researchers camped in Greenland for three months over the
summer, analysing meltwater running off the island’s ice sheet.
They
found that six tons of the greenhouse gas methane passed through their small measuring
site alone....
Many
of us love our iPhones and iPads.
But,
let’s face it, they’re not the toughest devices. Dropping your phone and other
simple accidents can result in ugly and inconvenient cracks on the screens.
Such
damage can make your once beautiful iPhone or iPad look old and battered,
making you embarrassed to take it out around...
A
community group in Walker aimed at the over-55s has received a very welcome
Christmas present.
The
Happy Mondays social group has been granted £500 from YHN’s Positive People
Positive Places fund to run a variety of sessions, including a crafts workshop.
YHN
(Your Homes Newcastle) is an ‘arm’s-length’ management company set up by
Newcastle City Council...
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...
