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Updated - where to find free wifi in Newcastle and Tyneside
Not so long ago we asked for your help in completing a comprehensive map of free wifi in Newcastle and Tyneside. Thanks to your efforts, we quickly doubled the number of spots you can guzzle bits and bytes while filling up on coffee, or in some cases, ale…

Show or no show for Doherty in Newcastle…?
If you were one of the dozens of people who cancelled everything last night to see Pete Doherty in Newcastle, take some consolation in the fact that he did play a gig. Just not the one you were attending…

Hotel Monument closes before it opens
Hotel Monument was to be an outrageous hotel apartment with Charles Grey himself protruding through the bedroom….

Crowds gather for bamboo bridge, but good art takes time
To mark the launch of the third SummerTyne festival, two riggers walked the length of the Bambuco bamboo bridge, lighting several hundred lanterns along its length…

NARC fest returns to Ouseburn
Texas has South by South West, London has the Camden Crawl and we have The Ouseburn Festival. And just one part of it is this Saturday’s one day music festival known as NARC Fest, the idea being that some of the city’s most loved venues showcase the best of the North East music scene and beyond…

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