INVESTIGATIONS into the cause of a unit fire on Newcomen Street in Newcastle's CBD on Saturday night are continuing with no ...

Community centre users have said they "will be lost" if a council goes ahead with plans to sell the facility. Members of the Newcomen Community Resident Association say unless they can raise the funds ...

Westmorland Road Community Centre, in Redcar is facing closure due to Redcar Council having a shortfall in the budget of £6.5 million. This decision has created real disappointment and concern among ...

Dartmouth Rotary staged its annual Youth Speaks competition this year, with 11 teams from across the district taking part.

A cottage economy of tinkerers and engineers took to their barns. Pioneers like Thomas Newcomen and James Watt created ever-improving steam engines. Over time, horses fell by the wayside as people ...

New food hygiene ratings have been awarded to 21 of Southwark’s establishments, the Food Standards Agency’s website shows – and it’s good news for them all.

Madeira: Secrets of Sisters, by Michael J Harnett, is a small, homespun three-act play focusing on the relationships between two pairs of sisters who meet for coffee with a sense of routine ...

Photo: Kevin Newcomen This is a neat slice-of-life drama that digs deep into the preordained roles that women play in families, often against their best interests. Playwright Michael J Harnett ...

AT a meeting of the Newcomen Society held in Prince Henry's Room, Fleet Street, on Dec. 16, Mr. E. Kilburn Scott read a paper on early cloth fulling and its machinery. Though it has remained for ...

THE new volume of the Transactions of the Newcomen Society fully maintains the high standard reached in the two previous volumes. As studies in engineering history, the various contributions shed ...