There was a time when getting a fix of nicotine meant taking a pinch of black, powdered tobacco and inhaling it up the nose!...
Heaton resident Busola Banjo, who donated a kidney to her sister so she could have a better quality of life is set to be...
A jobcentre manager from Newcastle has criticised Ken Loach’s popular recent film I, Daniel Blake. Steve McCall, employer relationship manager at Jobcentre Plus in...
Across the UK, the NHS sees 506,100 hospital admissions attributable to smoking, and ‘Stoptober’ is here to help reduce this number. Stoptober is a...
Do you know that a survey last year ranked Newcastle as the happiest city in the UK? And not only that, the Toon also...
A leading North East heart charity is using the hit dance tune Baby Shark to teach school children how to save a life.
Since its...
An art project and community enterprise that looks at innovative solutions to the often-ignored problem of illness, intimacy, sexual function and pleasure, has been...
A remarkable 80-year-old retired village bobby, who started running five years ago, is pounding the beat on lanes of Tyneside to raise funds for...
This Mental Health Awareness Week, leading North East mental health charity, Mental Health Concern, is on a volunteer recruitment drive for their Chain Reaction...
Dozens of families in Newcastle’s West End are set to get extra help with healthy eating thanks to a new initiative from an award-winning...