The nearest major airports are at Edinburgh and Newcastle.

One commentator has since written, " His 20 months at Newcastle United are the only part of Kenny Dalglish's career that came anywhere near failure ".

The film continues to cause controversy ; in February 2007 the Church of St Thomas the Martyr in Newcastle upon Tyne held a public screening in the church itself, with song-sheets, organ accompaniment, stewards in costume and false beards for female members of the audience ( alluding to an early scene where a group of women disguise themselves as men so that they are able to take part in a stoning ).

The locations for the photo-stories are ( probably deliberately ) recognisable as the suburbs of Newcastle upon Tyne where the Viz team are based.

* June 8 – WWII: Attack on Sydney Harbour: The Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle are shelled by Japanese submarines.

Also extant are two pageants from a New Testament cycle acted at Coventry and one pageant each from Norwich and Newcastle upon Tyne.

The accents of Northern England are also distinctive including a range of variations: Northumberland, County Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Cumbria, Lancashire with regional variants in Bolton, Burnley, Blackburn, Manchester, Preston, Blackpool, Merseyside and Wigan, Yorkshire is also distinctive, having variations between the North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.

The Newcastle University arms are blazoned Azure, a Cross of St Cuthbert Argent, and on a chief of the last a lion passant guardant Gules.

Square dances such as “ Newcastle ”, one of those original eight, are still very popular today, and countless new dances have been written in the Playford style, or English Country Dance ( ECD ) style as it is known in America.

The only cities in the region are Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland.

Some of its most important long-distance destinations are Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh.

After a gap of around 30 years, new high-rise flats are once again being built in Belfast, Birmingham ( some are for wealthy people, e. g. The Mailbox, others are student accommodation ), Cardiff, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Newcastle upon Tyne ; but this time sometimes for wealthy professionals, rather than the ` lower classes `.

Extensive personal and estate papers of the Dukes of Newcastle are held in the Portland ( Welbeck ) and Newcastle ( Clumber ) collections at the department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham.

Newcastle Airport is the nearest, however for alternative flights, Edinburgh Airport, Manchester Airport and Leeds Bradford Airport are all within.

The two " in-city " schools are Newcastle elementary, which is operated by the Issaquah School District 411 and Hazlewood elementary, which is operated by Renton School District.

All three are Newcastle residents.

The beginnings of an Anglo-Welsh tradition are found by some in the novels of Allen Raine ( Anne Adalisa ( Evans ) Puddicombe ) ( 1836 – 1908 ), from Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, whose work, Stephen Thomas Knight proposes, " realised a real, if partial, separate identity and value for a Welsh social culture ".

Sometimes these meanings are relatively clear ( for instance Newcastle, Three Oaks ); but, more often, elucidating them requires study of ancient languages.

Among Partridge's few friends are Lynn Benfield, his put-upon and long-suffering personal assistant whom he regularly humiliates, and Michael, an emotionally tortured ex-soldier from Newcastle upon Tyne.

* December 22 – The Animals reunite for one benefit concert at the Newcastle City Hall while Eric Burdon & The Animals are disbanding.

The tunnels are downstream and to the east of Newcastle upon Tyne and form part of the A19 road.

To complement their new format, Talksport purchased the rights to broadcast Manchester United, Arsenal and Newcastle in the UEFA Champions League, the FA Cup, England football internationals, UEFA Cup, England's Winter cricket Tours to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, and India, British and Irish Lions tours to South Africa and New Zealand, and rights to the Super League, Rugby League World Cup, and World Title Boxing Fights.

In contemporary documents from the early Revolutionary period, the area is generally referred to as " The Three Lower Counties on the Delaware River " ( Lower Counties on Delaware ) or by the names of the three counties, all of which retained linguistic and cultural connections to those of Maryland ; New Castle, which related well to North East England's Newcastle as the defunct Durham County, Maryland ( both Newcastle and Durham were relatively close to the Calvert regional identity as that of Northern England -- and as landlords in County Longford, of the Irish Midlands, their barony shared some characteristics with the earlier English Catholic plantation by Mary I of England and Philip II of Spain in Queen's and King's counties ), while Kent was contiguous with neighboring Kent County, Maryland and Sussex generally held a similar origin to Sussex County, Virginia, being the furthest removed from Penn's colony.

The Bishop of Newcastle is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Newcastle in the Province of York.

Huckerby is notably remembered for his time spent playing in the Premier League, appearing for Newcastle United, Coventry City, Leeds United, Manchester City and Norwich City in England's top flight.

Matthew Tait took his spot at outside centre which proved to be very pivotal, as Noon's young Newcastle teammate was one of England's standout players throughout the tournament, in particular the final where he ran 50 meters and evaded 5 Springboks tacklers, only to be pulled down a few metres short by a great cover tackle by Victor Matfield.

Throughout the Middle Ages, Newcastle was England's northern fortress, the centre for mustering armies.

Newcastle have played in England's top league from 1898-1935, 1948-61, 1965-78, 1984-89, 1993-2009 and since 2010, playing in the second flight at all other times.

By 1997 Scottish and Newcastle claimed that it was the most widely distributed alcoholic product in both pubs and off licences in the country.

Newcastle eventually secured a place in the 2012-13 Europa League with a 2-0 win over Chelsea, at Stamford Bridge, not only a historic match in NUFC history, but one of the most amazing goals in Newcastle and Premier League history was scored by Pappis Demba Cisse ( he scored both goals in the win ) guaranteeing participation in European League competition for the first time since 2004.

Newcastle sent some of his army south into Lincolnshire, as part of a planned " three-pronged " advance on London, but was forced to besiege Hull with most of his forces.

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

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Newcastle West is the most important county town outside of Limerick city with a population of around 10, 000.

It designates a concentration of population around where the most developed portions of the towns of Damariscotta and Newcastle meet, generally corresponding to the " Twin Villages " area.

In 2010 a group of researchers in the University of Newcastle found that a fibrous material called alginate in sea kelp was better at preventing fat absorption than most over-the-counter slimming treatments in laboratory trials.

Stothart's Mercantile in downtown Newcastle, New Brunswick | Newcastle ( IR Walker 1974 ) CNR operated express passenger trains along the main line from Halifax to Montreal via Newcastle, most notably the Ocean Limited, along with various local trains to Fredericton, Moncton and Campbellton.

* Dick Keith, footballer who most famously played for Newcastle United and was member of the Northern Ireland 1958 FIFA World Cup team

At her death, Barbauld was lauded in the Newcastle Magazine as " unquestionably the first best of our female poets, and one of the most eloquent and powerful of our prose writers " and the Imperial Magazine declared " so long as letters shall be cultivated in Britain, or wherever the English language shall be known, so long will the name of this lady be respected.

Newcastle was on the national canal network, but the canal, running from the Trent and Mersey Canal at Stoke-on-Trent to Sir Nigel Gresley's Canal has been disused since 1935 and most of it filled in.

From her children Henrieta, Countess of Newcastle and James, Duke of Berwick, she is the ancestor of the Earls Spencer and Diana, Princess of Wales as well as of the Dukes of Berwick, the later Dukes of Alba and of Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, the person with the most noble titles in the world.

* Although the Football League is experiencing membership difficulties at this time, it has nevertheless succeeded in electing three of its most illustrious members: Liverpool, Newcastle United and Arsenal.

In particular, the most prestigious subscriber ( after the Duke of Newcastle ) was Sir Edward Bromhead, with whom Green shared many correspondences ; he insisted that Green go to Cambridge.

In terms of retailing history, one of the most significant facts about the Newcastle Bainbridge shop, is that as early as 1849 weekly takings were recorded by department, making it the earliest of all department stores.

He led them to some important victories, most specially over Newcastle United on 24 October 1993, a game in which Matthew Le Tissier scored two goals.

In 1854, a catastrophic explosion on the quayside destroyed most of Gateshead's medieval heritage, and caused widespread damage on the Newcastle side of the river.

A resident of Gateshead outside the North East of England would most likely say they are from Newcastle, as it is largest and most recognized city in the region.