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Posts Tagged ‘Bensham’

Gateshead council involved in housing “scandal”

By Paul Smith • Oct 25th, 2008 • Category: news

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.



Gateshead police raid second weed farm in a fortnight

By Paul Smith • Oct 8th, 2008 • Category: news

Stone the crows. And everybody else too, probably.
Just a fortnight after a cannabis farm was found growing in a second floor flat in Gateshead, police have now discovered an entire house filled with plants and equipment.



Cannabis farm found in Gateshead

By Paul Smith • Sep 26th, 2008 • Category: news

Today’s Chronicle reports that a cannibis farm worth tens of thousands of pounds has been found in Gateshead.



Newcastle news - admissions, suspicions, evacuations

By Paul Smith • Aug 27th, 2008 • Category: news

- A Bensham sex offender who wanted to open a lingerie shop has been banned by Gateshead Magistrates.



Newcastle news - life, death and movie stars

By Paul Smith • Jul 30th, 2008 • Category: news

- Northern Rock have announced that they plan to make 1300 staff redundant after their recent troubles; 800 will be compulsory while its hoped other 500 will be voluntary.



What’s going on in Newcastle and Tyneside - Sunday 22nd June

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

- A car is stolen with a baby in the back seat in Ashington.
- One of the country’s most wanted men is on the loose and has been sighted in Gateshead. Twice.