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New Metro trains shown from the front and back.

New Metro trains contract ‘good news for local people’, says councillor

Jesmond councillor Arlene Ainsley has welcomed the awarding of a multi-million pound contract to build new Metro trains, James Taylor reports

It won’t be lonely this Christmas at local coffee shop

Cake Stories on Brentwood Avenue is opening its doors on Christmas Day from 11am to 1pm, offering free drinks and cakes in an attempt to alleviate loneliness and bring members of the community together.

“We’ve opened on Christmas Day every year since we started the business in 2015,” said Ben Evans, who owns and runs Cake Stories with wife Hannah.

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

Labour hold all of Newcastle in tough night for party nationally

Loujane Alasi and Jack Ramage have the election results from an incredible night in Newcastle

Students planning to cast their votes in Jesmond

Most students who live in Jesmond are choosing to vote here, in Newcastle East, rather than their home constituency in tomorrow’s general election, our straw polling suggests. A majority of the 30 students we questioned along Osborne Road, in Exhibition Park and on Newcastle University’s

What could education pledges mean for local schools?

Ahead of the UK general election tomorrow (Thursday 12 December) we’ve taken a look at the party manifestos and picked out some key education points to understand how proposed policies might impact on Jesmond’s schools and students. Current state of education in the UK A manifesto

Students hailed for preventing dognapping

JesmondLocal reporter Loujane Alasi spoke to local resident Kathy Cunningham about students who had prevented a dognapping

Former Jesmond Synagogue gives way to new residences

Ayushi Shah surveys residents about the redevelopment of a century-old synagogue

Christmas is coming to Jesmond, thanks to local charity

Fears that Jesmond would be without a Christmas tree this year have been allayed, thanks to the Watson Family Charitable Trust. Last month Jesmond Residents Association (JRA) announced that it would not be able to arrange the Acorn Road Christmas tree, as it had done