Newcastle University scientists aim to find out if selectively bred corals can help save reefs that have been damaged by climate change.
Higher sea temperatures...
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...
A combination of rising costs, frozen budgets and a new method for distributing government funding is set to leave north east schools struggling to...
Newcastle City Council has announced that, due to the government’s ongoing austerity policies, it will have to raise council tax and slash services.
In a...
Newcastle United hero Alan Shearer is to undergo a series of dementia tests as part of an upcoming BBC documentary.
In Dementia – Football’s Silent...
A 68-year-old north-east poet has been announced as the winner of The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2016. Gillian Allnutt, who has strong connections...
A cruise ship company sailing out of the Port of Tyne has hit upon a novel way to entertain its guests. This September will...
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...
Do you know that a survey last year ranked Newcastle as the happiest city in the UK? And not only that, the Toon also...
Nick Forbes, the leader of Newcastle City Council, could soon be enjoying a significant pay rise. Newcastle’s Independent Remuneration Panel has proposed an increase...