Heather Small to headline Newcastle Pride
Newcastle Pride, one of the largest free festivals of its kind in the country, returns with its longest ever programme of live entertainment for summer 2016.
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Newcastle Pride generates £9m for local economy
One of the UK’s leading LGBT festivals boosted the North East economy by more than £9m in 2015. Newcastle Pride, one of the largest free events of its kind in the UK, attracted a record-breaking 71,000 people in 2015, with an estimated additional 480,000 listening live around the world on Pride Radi
Top pop stars bring the crowds to Newcastle Pride
B*Witched and Belinda Carlisle were among the acts performing at a free event in the North East this weekend. The chart-topping girl-band and 80s songstress were both headliners at the eighth annual Newcastle Pride festival, at the city’s Town Moor from Friday to Sunday (July 17 to 20).
LGSM activists to lead Newcastle Pride Parade
Members of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), immortalised in the blockbuster movie Pride, will lead the Newcastle Pride parade through the city on Saturday, July 18. It will be the first time that the group, whose story was told in comedy film Pride released last year, has taken part in t
Newcastle expects £8M boost from Northern Pride
Newcastle Pride, now in its eighth year, will return to the city’s Town Moor for three days of live entertainment from Friday July 17. The event, which is also celebrating 45 years of world Pride, contributed around £7.9m to the economy in 2014, attracting a record 65,000 visitors. Organisers are ex
Freemen show their Pride in Newcastle
One of the oldest organisations in the North East is showing its pride and will be backing one of the region’s largest events this summer. The Freemen of Newcastle upon Tyne, which can be traced back to Anglo-Saxon times, is supporting Newcastle Pride 2015.
Home is where the Pride is!
Five of the North East’s leading housing providers are proving there’s no place like home by sponsoring one of the region’s largest events. Gentoo, South Tyneside Homes, Places for People, Gateshead Housing Company and Riverside are all backing Newcastle Pride 2015. The LGBT festival, which returns