The most successful ( in terms of student media awards ) include: Nouse ( University of York ), York Vision ( University of York ), Felix ( Imperial College ), Cherwell, The Oxford Student ( University of Oxford ), The Badger ( University of Sussex ), gair rhydd ( Cardiff University ), The Beaver ( London School of Economics ), Glasgow University Guardian ( Glasgow University ), The Boar ( University of Warwick ), Leeds Student ( University of Leeds ), Student ( University of Edinburgh ), The Steel Press ( University of Sheffield ), The Courier ( University of Newcastle ), The Saint ( University of St Andrews ), Varsity, The Cambridge Student, The Tab ( University of Cambridge ), Epigram ( University of Bristol ), The Ripple ( newspaper ) ( University of Leicester ), Exeposé ( University of Exeter ) Spark * ( University of Reading ), The Gaudie ( University of Aberdeen ), The Knowledge ( University of Plymouth ) and LeNurb ( Brunel University ).

The label was designed by the band and the beer released to coincide with the band's concert at Newcastle Metro Radio Arena on 15 December.

Radio Tyneside has been the voluntary hospital radio service for most hospitals across Newcastle and Gateshead since 1951, broadcasting on Hospedia

The city also has a Radio Lollipop station based at the Great North Children's Hospital in the Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary.

In an episode of In our time broadcast on Thu, 20 Oct 2005, 21: 30 on BBC Radio 4, Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Warwick ; Miriam Griffin, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford ; and John Moles, Professor of Latin, University of Newcastle discussed with Melvyn Bragg the idea that Antisthenes and Diogenes in ancient Greece practiced a form of performance art and that they acquired the epithet of cynic which means " dog " due to Diogenes behaving repeatedly like a dog in his performances.

October 2008 saw the new album entitled and another thing ..., launched via live gigs in Newcastle, Birmingham and London, and an appearance on Jools Holland's BBC Radio 2 show.

* Metro Radio, a radio station in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England

The ice rink was also the region's premier concert venue until the Newcastle Arena ( now Metro Radio Arena ) opened in 1995.

Venues for tour include London's O2 Arena, Birmingham's National Indoor Arena and LG Arena, Cardiff International Arena, Sheffield Arena, SECC, Belfast Odyssey, Dublin the O2, Liverpool Arena, Newcastle Metro Radio Arena, which will take place in November 2010 and April 2011 and then end again at Manchester and entitled ' The Tour That Doesn't Tour ... Now On Tour ... The Farewell Tour '.

In addition to this, more followed in 1970 ; BBC Radio Birmingham, Bristol, Blackburn, Derby, Humberside, London, Manchester, Medway, Newcastle, Oxford, Solent and Teesside.

It is thought that following on from the BBC Local Radio review into finance and output, from February 2012, Radio Cumbria will be sharing evening programmes from BBC local stations in the North East & Cumbria region ( Newcastle & Tees ) to reduce operational costs.

The " Pink Palace "-the studio and office complex of BBC Look North and BBC Radio Newcastle

BBC Newcastle ( formally BBC Radio Newcastle ) is the BBC Local Radio service English metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, broadcasting from studios ( known as the ' Pink Palace ') on Barrack Road in Newcastle upon Tyne.

The Fenham transmitter, for west Newcastle and Gateshead situated close to the studios on Barrack Road, also broadcasts television, national radio, BBC National DAB, Digital One, the MXR North East 12C multiplex, 100-102 Real Radio on 96. 2, Metro Radio on 103 and Capital North East on 105. 6.

The current regional BBC radio station is BBC Radio Newcastle.

Cecil McGivern CBE ( 22 May 1907, Newcastle, England – 30 January 1963, Buckinghamshire, England ) was a British broadcasting executive, who initially worked for BBC Radio before transferring to BBC Television in the late 1940s.

After university she presented on Metro Radio in Newcastle, from where she was offered a job as a presenter on Sky Sports in 1996, working there until 1998, when she began working at ITV.

And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge across the River Tyne in Newcastle upon Tyne, completed in 1849, is an early example of a double-deck bridge.

He is referring to the twinned monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, near modern-day Newcastle, claimed as his birthplace, there is also a tradition that he was born at Monkton, two miles from the monastery at Jarrow.

Scottish & Newcastle launched Foster's Twist, a beer with a hint of citrus that is marketed as a refreshing alternative to other heavier beers and Premium Packaged Spirits such as Smirnoff Ice.

The city is the administrative centre of the Central Coast region, which is the third largest urban area in New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle.

Scots, as spoken in the lowlands and along the east coast of Scotland, developed independently from Modern English and is based on the Northern dialects of Anglo-Saxon, particularly Northumbrian, which also serve as the basis of Northern English dialects such as those of Yorkshire and Newcastle upon Tyne.

These were originated by Professor Colin Ramshaw and led to the concept of Process Intensification: research into these novel technologies is now being pursued by the Process Intensification Group at Newcastle University.

* 2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the.

The George and Jobling aircraft control column is in the collection of the Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Made possible by a grant from MOMA that had originally been intended to help restore the Hannover original, one wall of this last structure is now in the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle ; the shell of the barn remains in Elterwater, near Ambleside.

* 1906 – Cunard Line's is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

In this story, the narrator is waiting under a tree to be picked up by a coach which will take him out of Newcastle, when he suddenly finds himself transported back over a thousand years.

Arthur, former lead singer of the band The Chart Commandos, still continues to perform with " Big Black Bomb " and is still considered to be an innovating force on the Newcastle music scene.

is founded as the Stanley F. C., with a further name change to Newcastle East End F. C.

* June 25 – The Incorporated Guild of Smiths is founded in Newcastle upon Tyne.

* October 6 – The great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead is ignited by a spectacular explosion.

is renamed Newcastle United F. C., following the demise of the Newcastle West End F. C.

Northumbria is also used in the names of some regional institutions: particularly the police force ( Northumbria Police, which covers Northumberland and Tyne and Wear ) and a university ( Northumbria University ) based in Newcastle.

Newcastle Brown Ale ( colloquially " Newkie Brown " ( UK ), " Newcastle " ( US ) or " Dog " ( North East )) is an English beer owned by Heineken and produced at their John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.

Newcastle Brown is also distributed in cans in the U. S., but is very rare.

In 2006, a special production run of 2. 5 million bottles celebrated the career of Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer, who had recently broken the club's scoring record and was about to retire from football.

Cisse, along with the on-form Hatem Ben Arfa, inspired Newcastle to a strong second half of the season, going on a 6-game winning run and recording memorable victories against Liverpool and Chelsea to put the Magpies in contention for European football.

These run to Newcastle and the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains, the Southern Highlands and the South Coast.

Many castles remained in use as county gaols, run by gaolers as effectively private businesses ; frequently this involved the gatehouse being maintained as the main prison building, as at Cambridge, Bridgnorth, Lancaster, Newcastle and St Briavels.

It has also been suggested that the Stanegate may have run eastwards from Corstopitum towards present-day Newcastle, but there is no evidence to support this.

The ferry to Gothenburg, Sweden, from " Newcastle " ( actually North Shields ) in northern England ( currently run by the Danish company DFDS Seaways ), ceased at the end of October 2006 " DFDS scraps Newcastle-Gothenburg line ", The Local, 7 September 2006: " Danish shipping company DFDS Seaways is to scrap the only passenger ferry route between Sweden and Britain, with the axing of the Gothenburg-Newcastle route at thekey route for Scottish tourist traffic from Sweden and Norway.

DFDS Seaways ' sister company, DFDS Tor Line, will continue to run scheduled freight ships between Gothenburg and several English ports, including Newcastle, and these have limited capacity for passengers, but not private vehicles.

The tour opened in Malvern before travelling to Milton Keynes, Brighton, Bath, Norwich, Edinburgh and Newcastle ; its run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket was extended due to demand.

Gresley introduced the Class A4 locomotives in 1935 to haul a new streamlined train called the Silver Jubilee to run between London King's Cross and Newcastle.

However, the run was ended with a 5 – 1 defeat to local rivals Newcastle United on 31 October 2010.

CrossCountry run a small number of services ( departing in the morning, arriving in the evening ) to Glasgow Central via Bristol, Birmingham New Street, Manchester Piccadilly, also to Dundee via Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, York, Newcastle Central and Edinburgh Waverley.

Rush's reputation was enhanced by scoring for Chester in a shock 2 – 0 FA Cup third round win at Second Division giants Newcastle United in January 1980, with Chester equalling their best run by reaching the last 16 where they narrowly lost to Ipswich Town two rounds later.

The ultimate Deltic performance came on 2 February 1978 with a run on the 07: 25 from Newcastle to King's Cross.

The following season failed to live up to expectations, although the club again reached the semi-finals of the Auto Windscreens Shield, eventually going out to Birmingham City, and an eventful FA Cup run saw them win at Middlesbrough in a third round replay, before going out to Newcastle United at St James ' Park.

The decision came after Newcastle went on an unbeaten run to quash any doubts of relegation largely due to an inspirational Carl Hayman.

They could still be found working The Newcastle Flyer up until December 1970, hual by 3820. the Newcastle Flyer was 3820 last government run and was withdrawn from government operation and handed into the care on the NSWRTM at Endfield.

The company was independent until 2003, when, having run into financial problems, it was taken over by brewing giant Scottish and Newcastle, which in turn was taken over by Heineken and Carlsberg in 2008.

Its pre-West End tour then took it to the New Theatre Oxford, the Manchester Opera House, the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, the Grand Theatre Leeds and the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham before it began its run in London on 25 November 1952 at the New Ambassadors Theatre.

Then in 1995 / 96, with many pundits predicting Wasps could make a run for the title, Rob Andrew took up a lucrative deal to become Player Manager of Newcastle Falcons.

The club's best run in the FA Cup saw them reach the Third Round where they held Newcastle United to a 1 – 1 draw at St. James ' Park before losing the replay at Watford's Vicarage Road ground.

* 23 November 2002-Ruud van Nistelrooy scores a hat-trick as Manchester United end a dismal run of league form by beating Newcastle United 5-3 at Old Trafford.

It is run by Go North East and provides links to Crawcrook, Newcastle, Blaydon, Prudhoe and Hexham.