Work to help improve safety at the A690 Stoneygate junction is getting underway from Monday, August 1. The works are scheduled to last for six weeks and will include ending the right turns out of the Newbottle and Warden Law side roads. It is hoped the changes will minimise the risk of collisions as […]
Hundreds of football fans across the region have surrendered their passports ahead of the Euro 2016 tournament. As the summer season approaches more than a hundred people will not be allowed to travel abroad – because they’re banned from watching football. Euro 2016 kicks off in France this week but […]
Northumbria Police has been working with the two football clubs to make sure fans can reach the Tyne-Wear derby on time. Tens of thousands of football fans will fill St James’ Park on Sunday as Newcastle United host Sunderland AFC in a 1.30pm kick-off. More than 25 coaches will start […]
Travel body ABTA say Ryanair’s new flights from Newcastle Airport will have the added benefit of bringing more tourists into the North East. Ryanair’s new winter schedule this week will provide additional routes to Tenerife, Malaga and Lanzarote as well as extra flights to Alicante and Dublin, delivering 330,000 passengers […]
The Flying Scotsman is running again as shown in these incredibly stunning photos. The world famous locomotive the Flying Scotsman is travelling along the East Coast Main line from London’s King Cross to York today after a decade long renovation that coast £4.2m. The train departed King’s Cross Station at 7:40am […]
Virgin Trains have announced 42 new services a week between Edinburgh and London this May, boosting seat capacity by 22,000 a week on the route, which is an increase of nearly a third. The service will now run every 30 minutes for most of the day, giving those in Newcastle more […]