NE1’s Geordie Jackpot has teamed up with the Great North Children’s Hospital Foundation to create a Winter Wonderland in the heart of the Royal Victoria Infirmary. Equipped with festive lights and huge Christmas decorations, the immersive Christmas experience will be enjoyed by young patients and visitors to the hospital across the festive season.

NE1 has today announced the participants in this year’s 24 Doors of Christmas, the city’s alternative advent calendar and has teamed up with BBC Newcastle as a partner on the event.

Businesses in Newcastle are set to access the UK’s fastest, most resilient internet connectivity with the introduction of business-specific full fibre infrastructure throughout the NE1 postcode area.

Struggling for a Christmas present for the Geordie who has it all? Why not give them a pre-Christmas treat, a neon kayaking adventure on the Tyne. Night-time kayaking is being launched in Newcastle this winter offering people a unique adventure and the chance to experience Newcastle’s own NE1 Newcastle City Marina, the Quayside and the Tyne at night in a way that has never before been possible.