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James Bond is back… and on Tyneside

By Paul Smith • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: events

The title might be the result of a university drinking game, and the theme song may sound like a bag of hammers. It doesn’t matter. Bond is back and you know it’s going to be a-bloody-mazing.



Second day of delays on Metro system

By Paul Smith • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: news

Don’t count on the Metro getting you anywhere on time today - that’s the message from Nexus for a second day in a row.



5 year-old smuggles knife into Gateshead school

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

If you’re a parent, this really isn’t the sort of news you want to be reading. Far from it.
A five-year-old boy was suspended in June, for smuggling a knife into a Gateshead school.



Sweary Newcastle United boss blames his childhood

By Paul Smith • Oct 17th, 2008 • Category: news

Why is Newcastle United manager Joe Kinnear such a potty-mouthed piece of work? Because it’s the way he was brought up, innit.



Two Newcastle restaurants to close

By Paul Smith • Oct 16th, 2008 • Category: food

Tonight, news of two restaurant closures in the heart of Newcastle. The reason? The credit crunch recession or development, depending who you ask.



Attention! Newcastle porn stars wanted

By Paul Smith • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: news

Times are hard, kids. Prices soaring, economies failing, poverty increasing, redundancies everywhere. Actually, don’t worry about that last one if you’ve been laid off recently. Have we got a job for you.



Newcastle news - petrol, parks and cockerels

By Paul Smith • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: news

- People living in Gateshead’s Henderson Road have been ordered by the council to get rid of their resident wandering cockerel, which was adopted by the street as a chick.



People living in Newcastle are “filthy” - but not in that way

By Paul Smith • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: news

We’d probably enjoy a reputation the most sexually adventurous folk in the country, and we may well be. Today, research has proven we’re certainly the dirtiest, but sadly not between the sheets.