Growing up in the early to mid 2000s was nothing short of blissful. Beanie Babies were collected, S Club 7 dominated the music charts, and McDonalds’ birthday parties were somehow the epitome of cool. But for us local lot, the North East held some fundamental gems that further fuelled the […]
Percy Park Rugby Football Club in North Shields are hosting their 11th annual rugby tournament this weekend in order to raise awareness of hate crime in sport. This Saturday, nineteen teams featuring 360 players from across the country will unite to take part in the Hadrian Cup Rugby Tournament, organised […]
School kids have finished their academic year for the dreaded six-week holiday, what can parents do to keep their children busy over the summer? Should they take them to Whitley Bay Playhouse for a spot of theatre or a pantomime? Or have a picnic down by the beach? We have […]
North Tyneside council held their first Northumberland Park event of 2019 with a Spring Fair featuring live music and other entertainment on Sunday April 28. Here is a video showing some of the music, dancing and an interview with Phil Graham, an event organiser from North Tyneside Council:
As part of 2019’s English Tourism Week, Tynemouth MP Alan Campbell has praised the regeneration of the North Tyneside coast and confirmed more is yet to come. Last summer saw the reopening the Spanish City Dome in Whitley Bay after extensive renovation work restored the 108 year old building to […]
For the first time since the 2007/08 football season, the North East will not have a representative in the FA Vase final at Wembley Stadium. The last remaining Northern League side in this year’s competition, West Auckland Town, were knocked out at the quarter final stage. In the past decade, […]
A formerly neglected council site in North Tyneside, once a WWII air-raid shelter, is now a thriving garden spot hosting small outdoor events. Lovaine Community Garden, North Shields, is run by local resident and co-ordinator, Wendy Young, 41. Mrs Young said: “We rent the land from the council. Before we […]
North Shields-born author Mike N. Coates promoted his range of history books about the town in North Shields Library on Saturday December 9. Coates was one of several authors who visited the library on the weekend of the North Shields Victorian Christmas Market. Having spent time in Northumberland Park […]
A North Tyneside choir are set to raise funds for a lasting memorial to fishermen who lost their lives at sea. Backworth Male Voice will perform in April at North Shields to support the installation of the ‘Fiddler’s Green Sculpture.’ The sculpture will be dedicated to the fishermen that left […]
Tattooing – a typically male dominated environment. However, four girls in North Shields are combating the stereotype and running the first all-female tattoo studio in the North East of England. On a busy street in North Shields, the sound of buzzing tattoo guns can be heard from outside a shop, […]