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There’s a caffeine kick on every corner in Newcastle from numerous big brand cafes such as Starbuck’s, Pret a Manger, Cafe Nero and Costa Coffee.

UFOs over South Shields and the coastguard conspiracy
The truth is out there. Over South Shields, in fact. At least it was at the weekend.
Coastguards were called out at the weekend after members of the public reported lights in the sky, off the Wearside and Marsden coast..

The Lounge, opposite Central Station, is a jack of many trades.
It’s a bar for the after-work crowd in the evenings, a cafe bar by day and moonlights as a tacky meat market at weekends, where downstairs in the basement you may find topless dancers on a match day, or the grab-a-granny crowd on Friday and [...]

Newcastle’s Quayside has a plethora of fine Italian restaurants to choose from, so it would take a brave restaurant chain to step on their toes and try to offer something different.

Exclusive - Gateshead gets Googled
A vehicle carrying the unmistakable multi-coloured Google branding has been seen touring the streets of Gateshead this morning…

It’s not hard to fall over a burger joint in Newcastle these days but Newcastle hasn’t had an independent burger restaurant / diner since New York, New York closed in the eighties.
Stateside Diner on Pink Lane would appear to fill the allbeit small void for a 50’s style American diner and as such is small [...]

In the hunt for a lunchtime special that would ensure we didn’t have to eat again that day, while at the same time pacifying the tight-fisted amongst us, we landed at a restaurant familiar to most.

Kyliemania swept Newcastle last night as the diminutive Princess of Pop TM and her X Tour took to the stage of the Metro Radio Arena for four nights of flamboyance, costume changes and songs you’d never admit to liking publically, but secretly enjoy if you hear them on the radio.