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Exclusive - details of 300 BNP members in Tyne & Wear leaked

By Paul Smith • Nov 19th, 2008 • Category: news

You may be a proud BNP supporter or you may prefer to keep it a secret. After all, you might be an advisor to the council or a policeman, or in a similarly sensitive role.
Either way, everyone knows your political leanings now; a list of nearly 13,000 BNP supporters, activists and contacts has been leaked [...]



Tornado strikes Newcastle Central station

By Paul Smith • Nov 19th, 2008 • Category: news

Tornado, the first new main line steam locomotive to be built in Britain for almost 50 years, hauled her final test train on the Network Rail main line from York to Newcastle last night.



Chew on this - Lau’s Buffet King, Stowell Street

By Alex Grover • Nov 7th, 2008 • Category: food

Last night, Newcastlecentric decided to take a trip to Newcastle’s Lau’s Buffet King in Stowell Street, part of Newcastle’s small but perfectly formed Chinatown.



Newcastle’s live music - November

By Helen Foley • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: music

For all those uninterested in anti-climatic firework displays tonight, this can be the day you go and see The Kills at The Other Rooms instead. Or, Hanoi Rocks will be at The Carling, desperately clinging to their 1980s, drug addicted rock personas. The Cluny meanwhile, has Solange. Not a medicated, throat pain relief capsule, but [...]



New York’s grizzliest at the Side Gallery

By Helen Foley • Oct 29th, 2008 • Category: events

Weegee must have irritated the hell out of the NYPD with his deft persistence and indefatigable urge to capture the lifeless morbidity of a New York crime scene, but where would any of us get to without the shameless capacity to annoy?



Newcastle news - on cider, in court and on CCTV

By Paul Smith • Oct 29th, 2008 • Category: news

- A man has appeared in court charged with the murders of Zhen Xing Yang and Xi Zhou at their flat in Newcastle in August.



Up all night for the US elections at the Tyneside Cinema

By Paul Smith • Oct 28th, 2008 • Category: events

Hey, we can’t vote but we’re happy to nail our colours to the mast: McCain is an old man riddled with disease, hellbent on military solutions to the world’s problems who’ll most likely die before his term is up leaving that vacuous tart in the stilettos to rule over the free world. And we like [...]



Newcastle news - I can mail dead people

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

- Trying to contact the dead is difficult enough when you have voodoo and dark magic on your side. So quite how marketeers think they’ll manage to get in touch with Newcastle’s deceased is unclear.