City’s parks received national recognition

The parks have scooped Green Flag Awards recognising excellent use of green space, well-maintained facilities like play areas or boating lakes and high standards of safety and security. The awards come as the city’s parks prepare themselves for their...

Anger over Stagecoach hold-up: Vital hospital service axed by bus company

Liberal Democrat councillor Greg Stone has called on bus operator Stagecoach to rethink their decision to discontinue the number 3 service in the east of Newcastle from the beginning of September. The service currently runs at morning and evening peak...

Building Festival at the Star and Shadow Cinema!!

1ST AUGUST – 14TH AUGUST. 10AM-WHENEVER Every two years we have a big building festival at the Star and Shadow Cinema on Stepney Bank. The building was set up with one in fact, in April 2006. This time is special because we are on the cusp of signing...

Councillors support local projects

St. Gabriel's Church in Heaton, where the councillors met. Councillors representing the North Heaton ward on Newcastle City Council met for the last time before the summer break this week, at St. Gabriel’s Parish Centre. The councillors spoke to...

Big Lunch on the Brickfield

Over 150 people shared lunch on the Iris Brickfield, the park between Rothbury Terrace and Whitefield Terrace in Newcastle, on Sunday 18 July.  Organiser Susan O’Donnell of the Friends of the Iris Brickfield, who organised the event in partnership...

Ouseburn Interest Guided Walks: Maling Pottery, June 29th

The world famous Maling Pottery occupied three different sites in the Ouseburn and we’ll visit the locations of the first two on our way to their final and largest pottery. Many of the original buildings here still exist and have been imaginatively...