Your family may perform the task of a “Spring Cleaning”, a day or two dedicated to cleaning your entire house from top to bottom where you declutter your working and living areas to increase performance and just make the place look nice. We used to do that at my home, […]
North Tyneside Council has released their plan to rebuild and renovate Tynemouth Library in efforts to create a community hub. The council’s Cabinet will hold a meeting in May 2020 to discuss the plans further. If the plans are approved in May, the 67-year-old library will undergo a complete rebuild […]
Two of the biggest universities of the North East have responded to increasing Coronavirus concerns to protect their students and staff members. Northumbria University currently has around 400 students from mainland China studying at its campuses in Newcastle and London. Less than ten are from Hubei province, which includes Wuhan […]
South Korean satire Parasite posted the most successful opening weekend for a foreign film at Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema, selling over 20,000 tickets. Director Bong Joon-Ho’s tale of class warfare also became one of the cinema’s top five openers ever, selling more than 2,000 tickets and selling out almost every screening. […]
A new exhibition featuring a giant capitalist robot and an enormous snake is opening at at the Northern Gallery in the National Glass Centre. Contemporary artist Chad McCail spent three years creating the exhibition titled Toy. It represents McCail’s ideas surrounding the capitalist ideology and disconnect between the many and […]
Boris Johnson has given the green light to a £5bn “transport revolution” and HS2. The Prime Minister told the House of Commons in a statement at lunchtime that the government would spend £5bn on local bus and cycle networks. He also announced a commitment to building the HS2 rail link […]
Washington Wetland Centre will once again host an annual puddle jumping competition during the February half-term. The family-friendly attraction has been running since 2016 and will be hoping to entice even more people to visit than the 7,500 who attended last year. The North East Puddle Jumping Championships are part […]
Last week, Northumbria Police and Nexus launched Operation Hades – involving plain-clothed police and Nexus staff aiming to crackdown on disorder within the Metro network. This follows a rise in incidents reported since the new year including, 10 windows being kicked out in a Metro carriage on Friday January 31. There […]
Sam Fender has rescheduled his upcoming shows at the O2 Academy Newcastle due to illness. The sold-out shows for the 4th and 6th of February have now been rescheduled for the 17th and 19th of February respectively. This follows a previous cancellation and subsequent rescheduling of his gigs in December. […]
Newcastle based This Is Tomorrow festival has just two female headline acts this year. The festival, which takes place on the Newcastle Town Moor will be on the weekend of May 22-24. Of the 16 headliners due to perform, just two are female or have female members. This comes as […]