newcastlecentric

- 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. Read full story

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Zhen Xing Yang and Xi Zhou. Read full story

Two accidents caused chaos on the roads of Newcastle and Tyneside this morning, closing the A1 for several hours. Read full story

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. Read full story

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. Read full story

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

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.
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- 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. Read full story