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#HousingHorror: How much notice is needed to enter a property?

Are students being taken for mugs by letting agents? Megan Cunningham reports on her hellish house hunt

Myuniaccommodation.com respond to our report as part of #HousingHorror week

Next week we’ll be devoting our site to highlighting the practice and mysteries of student housing. Here’s a taste of what’s to come

Sexual offences are on the rise in Newcastle – with indecent exposure around the Jesmond area the latest such incidents – reports Leela Prasad

A cash machine outside the Jesmond branch of a Lloyds TSB bank was closed off by police this weekend for fears of fraud

A Newcastle University student calls on footballing friends to promote his t-shirt brand boasting of the Jesmond Dream, Leela Prasad reports

More than 1,200 vinyl records and 1,000 CDs in stock as charity seeks to boost local music scene

Anya Goncharova reports on a recent proposal to make Acorn Road safer for all its users by introducing ‘shared space’

JesmondLocal parses new data released by the Office for National Statistics and asks: are we pulling our weight economically?

Our interactive map of seven crimes in the neighbourhood this month that locals should know about