Newcastle News - the house always wins
By Sam Collier • Jul 19th, 2008 • Category: news
- The construction of a new cancer unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary was delayed because over £52,000 worth of building material were stolen from the site.
- Campaigners calling for traditional Hindu funeral pyres to be allowed in the North East say that there is no public health risk associated with the controversial open air cremations.
-Newcastle Magistrate’s Court has heard how a croupier at Newcastle’s Stanley Casino fixed it so his niece could win over £5000.
- A County Durham schoolgirl is to star in a big screen adaption of the children’s book ‘My Dad’s a Birdman’ to be filmed in the North East.
- And Newcastle United managed a comfortable 4-1 win in today’s pre-season friendly against Hartlepool.
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Sam Collier is a former hack for newcastlecentric.com, and now works for the BBC in London because she's very clever.
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