A Gateshead school has been evacuated after a pupil took pellets of sodium hydroxide from a science classroom and poured the substance over other children.
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.
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.
- 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.
Do Gateshead council traffic wardens have targets to meet when it comes to slapping fines on windscreens? Are they paid-per-car? Is there any sort of incentive beyond pride in their work? No?
Then why did one newcastlecentric reader catch two wardens employing rather underhanded tactics outside a Gateshead school last week?
- Morpeth’s Tallantyre Gallery is showing the work of Spanish painter Royo until this Saturday. The Valencian-born artist will be exhibiting over 20 original paintings during the exhibition Mediterranean Light.
Three men have been arrested following an incident at Ochre Yards in Gateshead.
A man has died in a three-vehicle crash in Gateshead.