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A rapidly strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean could influence Newcastle and North East weather over the next six months, increasing the likelihood of wetter and stormier conditions during autu...
Newcastle residents say problems accessing the city's online council tax services have left them str...
Gulls divide opinion across Newcastle like few other city residents, but the birds behind the noise are more legally protected than most people expect.
Former Durham University academic Professor Jason Arday has been found dead at the age of 41, days a...
Most cities would have built on it decades ago. Newcastle has around a thousand acres of open grazin...
People were urged to stay out of the sea at Blyth South Beach after a possible fuel or oil spill spa...
The Tyne and Wear Metro was built on a principle that now looks either admirably trusting or hopeles...
Walk through the Bigg Market at two in the morning on a Sunday and then again at nine. The differenc...
The realisation always comes late. You are halfway up the escalator, or already through your front d...
It is not a subject anyone raises at a dinner party, but every city eventually has to confront it. B...
Few pieces of post land as badly as a penalty charge notice. The envelope is thin, the photograph is...
Thousands of motorists use Newcastle's busiest roads every day, but certain junctions and routes hav...
Almost a month after a shipping collision at the Port of Tyne sent plastic pellets into the River Ty...
Thousands of breeze blocks tumbled through Newcastle city centre on Sunday afternoon as Dominoes New...
For dog owners in Newcastle, having some of England's most impressive coastline on the doorstep is a...
To somebody walking along a Newcastle street, installing a pedestrian crossing might appear relative...
Newcastle city centre can look very different after sunset. Restaurants fill up, queues form outside...
Newcastle's busiest roads carry thousands of vehicles while also cutting through neighbourhoods pack...
Walk through Newcastle city centre today and you'll still find many familiar household names, but it...
