Category Archives: Sport

Jesmond FC make history scoring six wins in a row

Local football team Jesmond FC have broken a club record, notching up half a dozen back-to-back victories for the first time in their history. The record-breaking achievement came after beating Cramlington Town 1-0 in the Second Division of the Northern Football Alliance League at the end

Jesmond Pool opens £20,000 gym for the over-50s

Improving the fitness of older people is the aim of a new gym that will open at Jesmond Pool in January. The gym will include equipment selected to promote healthy ageing, including a hand crank to promote wrist mobilisation and a rotary hip machine that

Is this the end for Jesmond’s bowling green?

Exhibition and Brandling Park Community Trust (EBPCT) has been chosen by Newcastle City Council to develop plans for taking over Brandling Park bowling green at the end of Clayton Road in Jesmond. The trust is now creating a business plan in support of its proposal

Jesmond Legion hosts classic and custom bike show

The streets of Jesmond hummed with the sound of vintage motorbikes this weekend, thanks to the Royal British Legion Riders Branch (RBLRB) which ran a classic and custom bike show at the Royal British Legion Club in West Jesmond Terrace, to raise funds for the Legion’s poppy appeal.

From Land’s End to Mount Kilimanjaro

Jesmond student Scott McKenzie has completed the first part of a gruelling charity challenge to raise money for clean water charity Dig Deep. Having completed his cycle ride from John O’Groats to Land’s End, McKenzie is now bound for Tanzania, where he will attempt to complete the