A title challenge emerged during the 2001 – 02 season, and Newcastle's fourth place finish saw them qualify for the Champions League.

By November 1727 Walpole and Newcastle's positions were both safe once more, boosted by an election victory which saw them gain 430 seats to the opposition's 128 in the House of Commons.

Milburn was the central figure in Newcastle's FA Cup campaigns of the 1950s, which saw the club win the Cup three times in five years ; 1951 ( scoring twice in the final ), 1952 and 1955 ( scoring the then quickest goal in FA Cup final history after 45 seconds ).

Smith saw a return to action in Newcastle's 3 – 1 cup defeat to Stevenage on 8 January 2011.

He started Newcastle's opening five games on the wide right of midfield, in an unchanged side which saw them pick up seven points from the first five games and climb to 5th in the table on 18 September 2010.

He is considered by some as one of England's best strikers, being both Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer.

Jak won Newcastle's " Wor Jackie " award ( named after legend Jackie Milburn ) for best under-18 player in 2011.

Newcastle's agent offered him £ 10, 000, and promised that he should be made " the best lord in Nottinghamshire ", but Hutchinson indignantly refused to entertain such proposals.

Sunderland also achieved a 2 – 1 victory over rivals Newcastle United at St. James ' Park, a result which helped bring about the resignation of Newcastle's manager, Ruud Gullit.

Newcastle's brother, Henry, was now strongly advocating peace, but Newcastle firmly rejected this — still convinced a major Allied victory was imminent.

After that disappointing draw with Stoke they followed with wins against Portsmouth and Tottenham Hotspur, which was Newcastle's sixth consecutive league victory against the North London team.

Given made his debut in Newcastle's 2 – 1 home victory over Sheffield Wednesday on 9 August 1997 and immediately established himself in the first team, beating fellow goalkeepers Pavel Srníček, Shaka Hislop and Steve Harper to the position.

She remembers her first match as Newcastle's 1-0 Premier League victory over Everton on 25 August 1993 and made visits by air or rail to St. James ' Park throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, including Newcastle's 5-0 win over Manchester United on 20 October 1996.

Smith started Newcastle's first four Premier League games due to the injury of Danny Guthrie, Smith partnered Joey Barton for the 3 – 0 loss to former club Manchester United, the 6 – 0 victory over Aston Villa, the 1 – 1 draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers and the 2 – 0 loss to Blackpool.

A week after the Jets ' derby victory, he floated in a cross to set up strike partner Labinot Haliti's opening goal in Newcastle's 1-1 away draw with Brisbane Roar.

On 19 September 1999, he scored a goal in Newcastle's 8 – 0 Premier League victory over Sheffield Wednesday in which his team-mate Alan Shearer scored a joint-record five times.

One of Newcastle's greatest personal achievements in this period was his use of diplomacy to keep Spain out of the war until 1762, by which time it was too late to significantly alter the balance of power.

Traditionally accounts of the war have portrayed Pitt as a visionary who won the war by reversing Newcastle's previous unwise policy of focusing on European affairs.

In the earlier years of the latter, though the richer colonels uniformed their men ( as, for instance, the Marquess of Newcastle's " Whitecoats " and King Charles's own red-coated Lifeguard of foot ), the rustics and the citizens turned out for war in their ordinary rough clothes, donning armour and sword-belt.

On 1 July 1644 Prince Rupert of the Rhine raised the siege, but on the next day threw away his success by engaging the three armies in battle, contrary to Newcastle's desire, at Marston Moor.

He scored his first goal for the club on his second appearance, the second goal in a 3 – 0 away win at Blackburn Rovers on 18 September – Newcastle's first win of the season.

Owen was stretchered off an hour into Newcastle's game with Watford on 13 May 2007, suffering concussion after colliding with team-mate Matty Pattison.

" Owen made his comeback from injury in a club friendly on 13 August 2007 and declared himself available for Newcastle's next match, against Aston Villa, as well as England's forthcoming international matches.

Owen's goal in the 2 – 0 defeat of Fulham on 22 March 2008, which marked Newcastle's first win under Kevin Keegan's second spell as manager, also marked the first time in his Newcastle career that Owen had scored more goals for Newcastle than against them.

Toronto is a town within the city of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, approximately from Newcastle's central business district and is a commercial hub for the sprawling suburbs on the western shore of the lake.

However, on Tuesday 20 May 2008 Steve Bates was confirmed as Newcastle's Director of Rugby on a full-time basis.

Having won both League and Cup in separate seasons with two clubs, Chapman was determined to go one better and win the Double – which had not yet been won in the 20th century – in 1931 – 32 but ended up missing out on both, finishing second in the League behind Everton and losing the 1932 FA Cup Final controversially to Newcastle United, with Newcastle's equaliser coming after the ball had gone behind for a goal kick.

Then-manager Glenn Roeder signed ex-Newcastle veteran Srníček as cover for Harper, and youth goalkeeper Tim Krul played a full match in Newcastle's 0 – 1 UEFA Cup win at Palermo on 2 November.

Given returned on 18 November for Newcastle's 1 – 1 Premier League draw at Arsenal, and ended the season with 22 league appearances as the club finished in 13th place, and reached the last 16 of the UEFA Cup.

And with Newcastle's marriage he succeeded, as he was made Poet Laureate in 1718 by the Lord Chamberlain, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, as a reward for a flattering poem on Pelham-Holles ' marriage .< ref >

* 100-A shuttle service operated by Stagecoach North East connecting the MetroCentre with Newcastle's Eldon Square bus station, the Grey's Monument area on Pilgrim Street and Newcastle Central railway station.

He went on loan to Newcastle United in January 1999, scoring once against Coventry City and playing in a total of 11 league games, also scoring once in Newcastle's run to the 1999 FA Cup Final with the only goal in the fifth round clash against Blackburn Rovers.

Chopra began the 2005 – 06 season back in Newcastle's first team squad and played in early UEFA Intertoto Cup ties, scoring his first senior goal for Newcastle in the 3 – 1 win away to Slovakian side Dubnica on 17 July 2005.

His other notable works include an opera Rebecca ( 1983 ), based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, a ballet Cyrano ( 1991 ) and the Aelian Dances, based on Newcastle folk songs ( the title is a reference to Newcastle's Roman name.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | William Pitt was the leader of the Patriot Whigs, and a constant thorn in Newcastle's side.

Newcastle's position had briefly been threatened by Carteret, a royal favourite, but by 1743 he and his brother were firmly in control of British policy — a position that would last until 1756.

McEwan's came under the ownership of Heineken in 2008 after their purchase of Scottish & Newcastle's British operations.

They, together with the townsmen, were too weak for Newcastle's increasing forces.

They not only found one, but two, as Sir John Hall and Kevin Keegan joined forces to salvage Newcastle's reputation.

Following viewer complaints, Cumbrian news coverage was switched back to Newcastle's Look North.

A mostly rural seat which houses much of Newcastle's commuting middle-class, Hexham was the only Conservative seat in the North East between 1997 – 2010, and the only one in Northumberland since 1973.

In 1979 she won a place on the BBC News trainee scheme, and began her first period of employment with the corporation working on radio and television news ; BBC Newcastle's Look North and Radio Sheffield.

Waratah is a north-western residential suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located from Newcastle's central business district and bounded on the north by the Main North line.

The most recent expansion in Newcastle's boundaries took place under the Local Government Act 1972 on April 1, 1974, when Newcastle became a metropolitan borough, also including the urban districts of Gosforth and Newburn, and the parishes of Brunswick, Dinnington, Hazlerigg, North Gosforth and Woolsington from the Castle Ward Rural District, and the village of Westerhope.

It is located west-southwest of Newcastle's central business district in the City of Lake Macquarie North Ward.