Former Whickham boss Lee Haldane has been appointed as new manager of Northern League Division Two club Chester-le-Street Town Lee Haldane has set his sights on bringing a new mentality to Chester ...

Find out more about some of the notable people who used to live in this area, with Margaret Minns, Whickham U3A ... films about brick making and a local colliery railway at Tyneside Cinema.

Residents are opposing a planning application for a 45-hectare opencast colliery near Whickham, Gateshead, close to the Durham County border. The application, submitted to Gateshead Council by ...

More than a million tonnes of coal is mined at Maltby Colliery each year Maltby Colliery is one of a handful of deep mines remaining in England. It produces more than a million tonnes of coal a ...

Maltby Colliery is one of a handful of deep mines remaining in England. It produces more than a million tonnes of coal a year, but at its peak produced twice that amount. The colliery was sunk in ...