Shaving heads for charity
Global Xchange volunteers shave their heads to raise awareness of the work among vulnerable people in the north east, reports Linda Guma
Category Archives: Community
North Jesmond ward meeting – replay!
Follow the debate and decisions as they happened, courtesy of live-bloggers Bob Cooper and Katrina Stevenson
South Jesmond ward meeting…. replay!
Follow the debate and decisions as they happened with JesmondLocal’s live-blog and political reporter Bob Cooper
Question Time comes to Jesmond
Well… the JesmondLocal version of it, anyway. Listen to this podcast of our live student/resident debate
Opinion: Should ecstasy be decriminalised?
Comment editor Sam Wood argues for a change in the government’s approach to drug laws
Local boutique dresses award-nominated cast
Jesmond milliner serves cast of Geordie Finishing School for Girls, report Linda Guma and Kerstin Vogel
Entries now open for photography exhibition
Jesmond Methodist Church seeking illustrations of community life, report Maria Loupa and Nelly Stavropoulou
Comment: Should planning laws be relaxed?
Politics reporter Bob Cooper locks horns with our comment editor, Sam Wood, on whether new policy will harm neighbourhoods like Jesmond
Pirates of Penzance, tonight at the RGS.
Newcastle University’s Gilbert & Sullivan society celebrates 60th anniversary with swash-buckling comic opera, report Charlotte Krol and Nelly Stavropoulou.
St George’s Church stages ‘Cat in Wellies’ panto
Church thespian society to reprise ‘Puss in Boots’ on 3–4 February, reports Nelly Stavropoulou