A TEENAGER has been arrested in connection with a fight on a bus. An 81-year-old was hit on the shoulder when a fight broke out between other passengers on a bus near Gateshead Interchange, Walker Terrace, Gateshead.

THE UK's fastest broadband is coming to Tyneside where 7,000 jobs are being created. Gateshead Council revealed today that is has joined forces with Alcatel-Lucent Telecoms to bring a super superhighway to the pounds 300m Baltic Business Quarter.

ENERGY and the challenges of providing it will be the theme of the second annual Thomas Hepburn lecture on Friday.

By Mark Tallentire SURELY everyone has something in their past ? a failed relationship, forgotten ambition or lost opportunity ? which occasionally enters their thoughts and prompting them to wonder: what would have happened, if. . .

By HELEN RAE ANEW multimillion pound building to provide extended health services in Tyneside is on target for completion. The building of Wrekenton Primary Care Resource Centre, in Gateshead, is due to open in spring next year.