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School evacuated after children suffer chemical burns

By Paul Smith • Nov 20th, 2008 • Category: news

A Gateshead school has been evacuated after a pupil took pellets of sodium hydroxide from a science classroom and poured the substance over other children.



Newcastle news - Closing? Guilty? Selling? Swimming?

By Paul Smith • Nov 20th, 2008 • Category: news

- A last-ditch attempt to save four South Tyneside’s primary schools from the axe looks to have failed. Labour councillors are being recommended to close St Bede’s RC Primary in Jarrow and Boldon C of E School, and merge Bedewell Primary and Lukes Lane Community schools on Hebburn Comprehensive School’s site. [Shields Gazette]



Exclusive - details of 300 BNP members in Tyne & Wear leaked

By Paul Smith • Nov 19th, 2008 • Category: news

You may be a proud BNP supporter or you may prefer to keep it a secret. After all, you might be an advisor to the council or a policeman, or in a similarly sensitive role.
Either way, everyone knows your political leanings now; a list of nearly 13,000 BNP supporters, activists and contacts has been leaked [...]



Tornado strikes Newcastle Central station

By Paul Smith • Nov 19th, 2008 • Category: news

Tornado, the first new main line steam locomotive to be built in Britain for almost 50 years, hauled her final test train on the Network Rail main line from York to Newcastle last night.



Newcastle news - on cider, in court and on CCTV

By Paul Smith • Oct 29th, 2008 • Category: news

- A man has appeared in court charged with the murders of Zhen Xing Yang and Xi Zhou at their flat in Newcastle in August.



Up all night for the US elections at the Tyneside Cinema

By Paul Smith • Oct 28th, 2008 • Category: events

Hey, we can’t vote but we’re happy to nail our colours to the mast: McCain is an old man riddled with disease, hellbent on military solutions to the world’s problems who’ll most likely die before his term is up leaving that vacuous tart in the stilettos to rule over the free world. And we like [...]



Newcastle news - I can mail dead people

By Paul Smith • Oct 25th, 2008 • Category: news

- Trying to contact the dead is difficult enough when you have voodoo and dark magic on your side. So quite how marketeers think they’ll manage to get in touch with Newcastle’s deceased is unclear.



Gateshead council involved in housing “scandal”

By Paul Smith • Oct 25th, 2008 • Category: news

If you’ve tried to buy a house in Saltwell or Bensham over the past few years, you may have been intimidated by protest posters in windows and talk of banks refusing to give mortgages on properties.