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
Category Archives: Community
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
La Sagesse public meeting – replay!
Follow all the action from this week’s debate as Sophie Bauckham and Bob Cooper live-blogged it
Oxfam Jesmond hosts fundraising concert at St. Hilda’s Church
Gateshead Youth Orchestra to play Oxfam charity concert on Wednesday 21st December, reports Nelly Stavropoulou
Orchard brings Jesmond residents together
Volunteers at Jesmond Community Orchard look back at its transformation whilst planting new fruit trees, writes Linda Guma
Celebrate Christmas early with Globe Café
Local Christians to take 50 international students to the Lake District next weekend, reports Maria Loupa
Fast (tinned) food facts
Callum McGlade, Kerstin Vogel and Linda Guma round off our focus on the iCan charity initiative
Fundraising jazz night for St George’s
Church Blue Jazz Quintet to raise money for lighting fund, report Nelly Stavropoulou and Maria Loupa
iCan Week: Children brainstorm ideas to tackle food poverty
West Jesmond Primary School students discuss ways of helping iCan project