Grab your Vans skate shoes, spike your hair and put on your best band t-shirt because pop punk heroes New Found Glory are returning to the region. The Floridian four-piece band aka The Godfathers of Pop Punk are doing a series of shows all over the U.K and are doing […]
A new state-of-the-art music, dance and drama centre has been awarded £6m by Arts council England. Just days after Sunderland Council granted planning permission for the new venue to be built, Arts Council England has awarded the Sunderland Music, Arts and Culture Trust £6m to help fund building the venue. […]
The Newcastle Community Green Festival’s future has come under threat due to a lack of funds, despite having been held annually since 1995, with organisers left with just two days to raise over £6,500 for the festival to go ahead. The festival was first established in the mid-1990s and quickly evolved […]
The Mouth of the Tyne Festival returns for its fourth year in July and the first three headline acts have been announced. Tom Odell, Elbow and Laura Marling have all been announced for the show which is held at Tynemouth Priory and Castle over three days. The whole event is […]
Geordie duo Ant and Dec have paid their respects to the late Tara Palmer-Tomkinson on Twitter. The TV pair tweeted: “so sad to hear of the passing of TP-T. She was a true one off with a huge, generous heart. Our thoughts are with her family #RIPTPT”. The former socialite […]
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Local Charity Peace of mind held a ‘Celebration of Diversity @ Peace of Mind’ party to celebrate Christmas and the vibrant diversity in the region. The aim of the event was to bring people together from all walks of life, communities, faiths and religions to celebrate diversity and culture in the region, and have […]
More than 200 years ago, the first recorded UFO sighting in Britain was made. This bizarre encounter would become the first of many, in what has become a phenomenon in both fictional media and serious investigations across the world. But despite its global appeal, the North East has had more […]
A Durham student has written his first book in the hopes that it will raise awareness and increase support of autism in the North East. Nathan Alexander Kennedy, 19, wrote his book, The Subtlety Of The Obsession, based on his own experiences with autism and felt that he wanted to […]
The third annual “Elf Run” saw nearly 2,000 of Santa’s little helpers compete in a 1km family run in aid of North East children’s charities.