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 [...]
- 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.
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.
If there was an award for “best use of a knackered old swimming pool”, Climb Newcastle would have it in the bag. But there isn’t, so they haven’t. What they do have is Newcastle’s first dedicated climbing centre, and that sounds far more fun, doesn’t it?
- Alan Shearer last night cut the ribbon on the official re-opening of M Steel Cycles in Gosforth, one of the oldest bike shops in the UK. The store was founded in 1894 and is owned by another Tyneside sporting legend, Joe Waugh, an Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medalist.
Three men have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Zhen Xing Yang and Xi Zhou.
Two accidents caused chaos on the roads of Newcastle and Tyneside this morning, closing the A1 for several hours.
We reported last week how two Newcastle restaurants had been forced to close; thanks to an early evening jaunt up Dean Street last night, we’ve stumbled upon a third.