Trumpeting success
Watch and listen to Rachel Flint’s report of the brass and wind festival at the RGS
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Choirs and cakes
Fiona and Chris Clarke report on some tasty but contrasting festival highlights
Swing it – in Jesmond
Anastasia Tscheprassow captures on camera some of the moves from the festival’s swing dance workshop, while Jess Ballantyne talks to one of the dancers
‘Stunning’ squash on display in Jesmond
Chris Hay watches two of the world’s best players do battle at the Northumberland Club
Fun for Jesmond’s over-50s
Ruth McGivern and Hannah Yates enjoy an afternoon of song, circle dancing and cake – watch their slideshow
Has Jesmond lost its Geordie accent?
Might as well be Kensington, argues Joshua Shrimpton Dean. That’s tosh, says Dan Howarth
Festival parade – the slideshow
Sights and sounds from last Saturday’s festival-opener, by Harriet McHugh and Hannah Stirling-Martin
Opera star to perform in Jesmond
Angelika Kirchschlager to sing at the Royal Grammar School, writes Emma Humphreys
Local election countdown
JesmondLocal’s Joe Mellor explains the timeline of events between now and May’s polling day
Northumberland Club ‘dominant’
Ladies’ and men’s squash teams in imperious end-of-season form, reports Chris Hay