JESMONDLOCAL

Anniversaries for Jesmond Ground and St George’s Church

What’s the meaning of the word quasquicentennial? Leela Prasad finds out – and celebrates two important anniversaries happening tomorrow

Follow all the action and debate as it happened, thanks to political correspondent Jonny Brown

Click on our interactive graphic to hear interviews with Jesmond’s leading lights

Fireworks, police sting operations and bin collections – just some of the issues discussed. Political correspondent Mark Summers reports

Amy Bolton suggests her picks of a packed Jesmond Community Festival programme, while Mark Summers interviews organiser Chris Clarke

BBC broadcaster Rosie Millard explains the story behind her documentary

Blood cancer kills a person every 10 minutes worldwide. Jesmondites will be running 5 km this weekend to raise awareness, writes Mark Summers

Our environment correspondent Anya Goncharova talks to a local who raised £4,000 for a new book in 20 hours

Joshua Shrimpton Dean reports on an unusual crime where technology helped track the alleged perpetrator

Aged 15, Simon Lymn spent 18 months living in a B&B, he talks to Alice Madgwick about his experience