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Gateshead roastery to compete at World Coffee Championships in Athens after winning UK Brewers' Cup

Gold Box Roastery in Blaydon is representing the North East on the world stage from June 22-24

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Blaydon Racers set to get celebrity send-off from Quayside tonight

Two special guests will send thousands of runners on their way as iconic race celebrates its 41st anniversary

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Blaydon Race 2023 route in full from Newcastle Quayside to Blaydon finish line

Thousands of Tynesiders will have their running shoes at the ready as they gear up for the historic annual event this Friday

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Blaydon Race 2023 full list of road closures in Newcastle and Gateshead on June 9

Multiple roads will be closed in the area from 6pm on Friday to allow a safe route for the thousands of runners to take on the historic annual event

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Blaydon Race 2023 full list of instructions for runners including dos and don'ts for Friday

Organisers have issued a list of rules on warming up, your race number, assembly times, wearing headphones and more ahead of the historic annual event

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Blaydon Race 2023 start time and other key timings for runners on the day

The iconic race will begin on Newcastle Quayside this Friday as it marks its 41st year on Tyneside, with 4,700 runners set to take part

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Tina Turner tribute act among line-up for Gateshead music festival Big Sound

Coldplay tribute and a Simply Tina show - promising a Tina Turner celebration worthy of the late star - will be among the acts taking to the stage at the Big Sound family festival coming to Blaydon rugby club this summer

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Tyneside tech firm Zytronic falls to a loss amid gaming market turmoil

The Blaydon business has been impacted by US firm Azure's filing for bankruptcy as well as other issues in gaming and vending markets

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Brewery's disappointment as National Trust calls time on Gibside's Garden Tap Pub

Gibside and Blaydon’s Firebrick Brewery had joined forces last year to launch the pub at the Rowlands Gill National Trust site

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Woman taken to hospital following 'medical incident' at Blaydon Station

Police were called to Blaydon Station shortly after 12.30pm and the train line was closed to allow officers on the tracks to take the woman to safety

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Hanover Dairies to invest after sealing finance deal with NatWest

The Blaydon milk delivery business has 12 depots serving the North East, North West and South

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The industrial River Tyne and a now-defunct railway bridge 95 years ago

The railway bridge linking Scotswood and Blaydon was the fourth and last at the location to carry trains across the River Tyne

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Blaydon drug driver who did 70mph in 20 zone during police chase walks free

Jay Jackson, of Blaydon, led police on a lengthy high speed chase in Gateshead, only stopping when he crashed

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Award-winning North Shields teacher retires after 30 years at same school

Meryl Wakeman taught at the same school for almost 30 years and will be 'much missed' by everyone at Sir Thomas More Catholic High School

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£3bn devolution deal for North East mayor and 17,000 new jobs is 'in national interest'

Henri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, says the ambitious package would "build a better future for Blaydon to Berwick, Hendon to Heaton”

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The Blaydon Races at 160: The song about a day at the races that became a Tyneside anthem

How an 1862 Victorian music hall song about a day at the races in Blaydon became an unlikely regional anthem that is still widely sung 160 years later

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Blaydon Race 2022: new route, road closures, and start time as famous run returns

The famous run is back for the first time since 2019 – but there have been big changes that mean it won't be following its traditional route

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Appeal to find missing Gateshead man last seen in Rowlands Gill two weeks ago

Kyle often visits the Blaydon shopping precinct, Chopwell and Rowlands Gill and often travels between these areas by bus

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Motorcyclist taken to hospital with serious injuries following crash with car in Gateshead

A man was taken to the RVI in Newcastle with multiple injuries following the crash in Blaydon

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Gateshead council cabinet approves proposed parliamentary boundary changes

Gateshead cabinet approves of the boundary commission's proposed changes to Blaydon and Gateshead constituencies

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Two people hospitalised after roof collapses in Blaydon due to Storm Malik

The North East Ambulance Service took two people to hospital yesterday morning

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Blaydon railway station: 'Disgusting, decrepit and verminous' - and set for demolition

By 1977, Blaydon's once-elegant red-brick railway station was in a state of badly vandalised decline and awaiting the bulldozers

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Gateshead drug dealer who hid white powder in Kinder egg jailed for role in conspiracy to sell cocaine

Two police raids at homes in Blaydon and Gateshead uncovered a stash of cocaine with a street value of £1,600

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From a night in Balmbra's to Geordie folklore: How the 9th of June has gone down in history

Ahead of this year's Blaydon Race, we take a look at the origins of the lyrics of the song and things you might not have known about it

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