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Emergency services were alerted to the fire in the building in Carliol Square, in Newcastle, at about 6.45pm.
A cloud of smoke that billowed into the sky was seen for miles around as firefighters and police converged on the scene. There are not believ…
More than 30 firefighters descended on Carliol Square to tackle a fire at a disused building
Over 30 firefighters responded to an area of Newcastle city centre to tackle a huge blaze at a disused building.
Plumes of black smoke could be seen billowing …
Places to go: Whitley Bay
The man who was responsible for the change of name from Whitley to Whitley Bay knew nothing about it.
William Oliver was Secretary of the Rockcliff Rugby Club in Whitley and died on a trip in 1901 to Edinburgh. The body was …
Road and rail travel was disrupted on Tuesday morning after a coach became wedged under a bridge in Gateshead[1].
The incident, which happened on Hepburn Gardens in Felling, involved a coach getting stuck under the Green Lane Metro bridge just before 9…
Former Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew insists the club has the ‘clout’ to reach the ‘next level’ after a successful first 20 months of the club’s new ownership.
And the 62-year-old has also admitted he remains in touch with the Magpies’ unpopular…
An ‘exceptional’ junior doctor and a university student both died in a collision on the A65 in Yorkshire after the latter’s ‘unexplained’ overtaking maneouvre sent a livestock lorry hurtling out of control down a slope, an inquest heard today.
Oliver …
Marc Silverwood collecting Railway Innovation Award (Image: Northern)
The train operator Northern has walked away with a top award for its work to develop a fleet of ‘Intelligent Trains’.
Colleagues from Northern picked up the award for ‘in service…
The incident was reported at 9.24am this morning at Oxenholme station and Network Rail tweeted that the West Coast Main Line between Lancaster and Oxenholme was currently closed in both directions due to the incident.
It has now been reported that alt…
A motorist who was ‘forced to pull off the M6’ to deal with a family emergency was slapped with a £100 fine. The driver claimed they were hit with the parking penalty for taking a 15-minute phone call outside a Holiday Inn in the Midlands.
Ranting on T…
Yesterday, Friday, 23rd June, was the 200th anniversary of the day when Robert Stephenson founded the first company in the world specifically for building railway engines.
Robert Stephenson and Company established the world’s first purpose-built locomo…