Local pizza restaurant raises money for Macmillan Cancer Support
Pizza Express’s snowballs dough ball sale aims to raise money to fight cancer, reports Samantha Seikaly
Category Archives: Going out
Papa Ganoush to open in Jesmond early December
Father and son duo Tim and Tom Monkhouse are opening a branch of their Mediterranean Papa Ganoush restaurant at the end of Shortridge Terrace, and in time for Christmas. The restaurant will have an outdoor seating area covered by a pergola and equipped with heaters and blankets to help diners withstand most weather conditions.
JRA chair urges students to join in on local affairs
The Jesmond Residents Association faces a recruitment problem, with its two student representative roles unfilled – exacerbating the student/permanent resident divide – reports Jerry Chen
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.
Picking poems in Jesmond orchard
Jesmond Community Festival brought a day of Italian poetry to the orchard on Tankerville Terrace, courtesy of Antonella Rea who teaches Italian language classes in Newcastle and Northumberland and has been organising cultural events like this since September 2017
Jesmond Food Market celebrates three years and four business start-ups
Market has been the launchpad for at least four businesses and organisers hope to work with schools to provide facilities for children to learn about sustainable food growing
Malhotra swaps Italian for Mexican on Osborne Road
El Paso’s range of sauces, salsas, and spices includes what the restaurant claims is “possibly the hottest sauce in the north east” and says its Almost Death sauce “is definitely not for the faint hearted”.
Branches restaurant becomes newest addition to Osborne Road
The restaurant uses only locally-sourced produce and has its own house herb garden
‘Earnest’ actors praise and raise money for Jesmond library
The actors of local production company Class Act Drama have donated all the proceeds of their performances of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest to Jesmond Library
Police make arrest following Waitrose armed robbery
A man entered the supermarket on Osborne Road last Friday at 7.10am, with his face covered and brandishing a suspected firearm. Northumbria Police say he threatened staff before stealing around 120 packets of cigarettes, then escaping in the direction of Acorn Road.