Newcastle Upon Tyne: We built this city on sausage rolls
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Newcastle council could be complicit in sportswashing, campaigners claim
www.theguardian.com Newcastle council could be complicit in sportswashing, campaigners claimEmails highlighted a close relationship between Newcastle United and council officials, who lobbied officials at the Saudi Arabian-controlled club for funding
Surely not?!
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Someone is dumping their rubbish into my recycle bin (I know the address) - how bad is that? What would you do? Details in desc.
So apparently, I found someone else's rubbish in my recycle bin. Mind you, the shed it's stored in only has ~5 recycle bins, mine is numbered with my flat number, and they were dumb enough to leave a parcel box with their own address on it, which shouldn't even go into any of these ~5 bins.
While it shoudln't be a huge problem, if their shit contains anything that makes the bin men refuse to take the rubbish, I would be alone with the problem, and they also left half a pack of canned beer, and some of them are still oozing beer. Together with my own, the bin is kind of full,
On the other hand, it feels really petty to complain about some rubbish in my bin. Also, I may look/feel like a weirdo/pervert if they ask how I found them, because that indicates that I went through all of their rubbish to find that parcel box with the address on it. Even though I think they did this to themselves by dumping their waste into someone else's bin.
What would you do? On a scale from "don't even bother" to "Report them immediately", how serious is this matter? Is it worth doing anything about it?
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The great non-tap metro mystery, or am I the "only one" who pays for something semi-free
I'm relatively new to this whole Newcastle metro business, and I have only ever used paper tickets and PAYG. I've been considering getting a season ticket (Pop card), and I wasn't sure whether I should tap in and out with a season ticket, since there's no balance to change. I looked it up on the Nexus website, and it looks like you should tap, however...
Thinking about the last 10 times I used the metro, out of the ~20 people who got off with me, only 3-5 other people tapped their card on the yellow reader. That made me think: there's no way this many people had paper tickets. So you either don't tap in/out with your season ticket (but then how do you check zones), or out of the 20 people, at least ~10 just tried to get away not buying a ticket.
What's going on? Should I just ditch my PAYG Pop card and go thug life (since apparently, you can almost always get away like the other 10 people), or you just simply don't have to tap your season ticket?
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Just casually having a helicopter park outside the house
https://i.postimg.cc/85GMY5Z7/PXL-20230721-173106100-2.jpg
Not sure the details, was going to ask if he was lost as airport is only two miles away. But apparently they needed a doctor on the area fast.
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WEY AYE NEWCASTLE, I have updated the print... | xpost reddit.com/u/Far-Elephant-2612
WEY AYE NEWCASTLE, I have updated the print with some of the fabulous comments from last night and today, I really appreciate your time and help with this.I feel so many of you have contributed towards this. But this is the final print now. Cheers Paul.
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Cluny duck race contestants 🐥
Shame about the rain, but it's been a great afternoon down at the Ouseburn watching the duck race!
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Don't think I've ever been more tempted to lug my laptop over to the Free Trade Inn beer garden and pretend to work for the next 4 hours.
Don't think I've ever been more tempted to lug my laptop over to the Free Trade Inn beer garden and pretend to work for the next 4 hours.
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Jealous or smug about Newcastle's weather this week?
Looks like Newcastle is about 5~10c cooler that other parts of UK this week. You feeling jealous or smug about it?