There is no finer film for the Christmas season than It’s A Wonderful Life. So buy a hat immediately, and doff it in the general direction of Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema, which is screening the classic throughout December.
A new Metro station is planned for Tyneside, as part of a new bid by Nexus for an additional £30 million to improve transport across Newcastle and Tyne & Wear.
- Revellers are being warned to watch their behaviour while out drinking in Whitley Bay. In recent months, the town and borough as a whole has seen an increase in the number of drink-related incidents, relating to anti-social behaviour, fights or more serious crimes. [News Guardian]
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.
- 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]
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, 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.
- A man has appeared in court charged with the murders of Zhen Xing Yang and Xi Zhou at their flat in Newcastle in August.