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MetroCentre:

MetroCentre is Europe's largest shopping and leisure centre and it has everything you could possibly need for the perfect day out.
MetroCentre, located in Gateshead, three miles south west of Newcastle Upon Tyne, has some brands that cannot be found anywhere else in the North East or indeed in the UK.
Nowhere in Europe have you got more retailers, restaurants and leisure attractions for your complete enjoyment.
With almost 330 shops including major department stores such as Debenhams, House of Fraser and Marks & Spencer, MetroCentre has something for everyone.

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:::Areas of Newcastle:::
Only two other cities in England have more listed buildings than Newcastle, and in particular the conservation area of Grainger Town, the majestic sweep of Grey Street was recently voted of as ‘Britain’s Best-Loved Street’.

Newcastle is the regional capital for over 3 million people living in the North East of England and has been a centre of commerce for over 2000 years.

A charismatic, exciting European city, Newcastle has a rich historic townscape of splendid architecture with more listed buildings than anywhere in the UK; dramatic landscape along the banks of the Tyne; breathtaking bridges and Quayside area of international reputation.

Newcastle is recognised as a sophisticated, modern city with cafes, cosmopolitan restaurants, bars to be seen in and luxury loft style apartments. The great cultural diversity of the city combined with dynamic developments make Newcastle an exception prospect. The city is surrounded by some of the most beautiful and unspoilt countryside and coastal stretches in the UK.

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Once the 17'th century hub of Newcastle's glass and pottery makers, the Ouseburn is being transformed into an electric urban village and a focus for the city's thriving creative community.

Rich in history, the Ouseburn's fascinating old buildings and its magnificent valley-spanning bridges have earned it conservation area status and attracted a new breed of creative and fascinatingly individual businesses.

Future plans for the Ouseburn Valley area include a host of regeneration and development initiatives in the pipeline that will transform the area over the next 5 years. Driven by Newcastle City Council, the Ouseburn regeneration strategy aims to build on the distinctive character and charm of the area, developing the potential of its riverside location and its unique mix of riverside buildings and urban green spaces.

Sympathetic residential developments will incorporate contemporary office spaces, cafes and restaurants and a new heritage pathway will join the Biscuit Factory to The Baltic.

The Ouseburn Valley is unique in terms of heritage, character and atmosphere. The vision for the area is that by 2010, it will be a thriving, sustainable, urban village in a unique riverside location within the City of Newcastle. The best heritage features of the area will be preserved and enhanced within a vibrant townscape and an attractive landscape. A wide range of businesses especially those related to creative, innovative, multi media and cultural activities are developing and prospering in the area. This will also be home to a stable mixed residential community. A wide variety of services and recreation opportunities will be available for residents, employees and visitors to the area.

Ouseburn attracts creativity, and is home to a theatre company, potters, recording and rehearsal studios, sculptors, artists and furniture designers.
These creative influences enhance the character of the area as a leisure destination and they are a vital component of the urban village, attracting visitors and generating vitality within the area.
The Ouseburn's visitor attractions capture the interest of all ages and offer a stimulating day out:
• The Biscuit Factory
• Stepney Bank Stables
• North Grange Glass
• 36 Lime Street Studios
• Seven Stories - Centre for Children's Books
• Ouseburn Heritage Group
• Testhouse 5
• Mushroom Works
• Cobalt Studios
• Ouseburn Farm
• Bruvvers Theatre
In total, the Ouseburn Urban Village will deliver:-

* 300,000 sq.ft. of new and refurbished workspace
* £12 million public sector and £140 million private sector investment
* Creation of 600 jobs
* A wide range of accommodation for micro-businesses

A unique environment for life, work and play close to the city centre and Quayside.

Location The Ouseburn Valley is located 2 miles east of the City Centre. It is less than 5 minutes by car and the proposed Quayside Transit System from Newcastle Central Station. It has excellent communication links, being just 7 miles (11km) from Newcastle International Airport. It has also recently been connected to the Baltic Arts Centre by the Millennium Bridge across the Tyne joining Gateshead with Newcastle Quayside.

Social The variety and diversity of cafes, restaurants and bars in Newcastle is overwhelming. Newcastle’s night-life and cultural scene have placed it ahead of London in the ‘buzz’ stakes according to a new ranking of British Cities.

Music lovers have a wide choice of entertainment from the annual Newcastle Jazz Festival to major name rock and pop concerts, staged at the 10,000 seat Metro Radio Arena, City Hall and nearby stadium venues.

Retail attractions include the Eldon Square Shopping Centre, which still remains the country’s largest city centre shopping complex. The elegant Edwardian Central Arcade, the Victorian Grainger Market and the famed Quayside Sunday Market all add to the diversity of shopping in Newcastle. Newcastle teams up with the Metro Centre, just five miles from the city centre, to attract overseas shopping visits. Eldon Square and Metro Centre alone attract over 60 million shopping visits a year.

Culture There are seven theatres in Newcastle. The largest, the Theatre Royal hosts some of the finest stage performances with seasons by Britain’s top theatre companies including Scottish Opera and Scottish Ballet. The city is the Royal Shakespeare Company’s third home and the Newcastle Opera House is home to the English Shakespeare Company.

Newcastle is home to the recently extended Laing Art Gallery, the premier gallery in the North East. The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead Quays) is Britain’s newest national art gallery and the largest of its kind outside London.

The Biscuit Factory is the largest art store in the UK, with over 70 artists exhibiting at any one time, and a rolling programme of additional exhibitions by national and international artists. Nearby, the spectacular Sage Music Centre, houses a 1,650 seater concert hall, 450 seater second hall and regional music school.

Education Newcastle is one of the oldest university towns in England and has a reputation for excellence in medicine, engineering and computing sciences. Research facilities are of international standards. More than 68,000 students attend the city’s renowned two universities (Newcastle University (Sunday Times University of the Year 2000/1) and Northumbria University and Newcastle College (one of the largest further education colleges in Britain).

Leisure From football to racing, golf to go-carting, Newcastle offers a choice of top level spectator and participation sports. St James Park, one of the Euro 96 venues, is home of Premier League Newcastle United Football Club. International athletics are staged at Gateshead Stadium and Grade One horse racing is held at High Gosforth Park. Newcastle is home to the Great North Run. Golfers are spoilt for choice with the North East of England home to almost 120 golf course.

Business As a modern European city Newcastle’s competitive advantage acts as a key driving force for the whole North East economy. In 1999 Newcastle City Council launched Competitive Newcastle, a ten year economic development strategy seen at the time as innovative, ambitious and challenging but has since seen significant developments. Competitive Newcastle provides the vision and the action plans to position the city as an economic force within regional and global economies. A recent report by Barclays Private Clients ranked Newcastle (with a GDP of £10.2 million) in the world’s top 50 cities with the largest economic output, highlighting the unique role of the city as the region’s engine of wealth creation.

The Newcastle Gateshead Initiative (NGI), a public/private sector partnership is spearheading the bid for European Capital of Culture 2008. Not only will Capital of Culture status boost the image of the region as a place to visit, work and live, it will also have a substantial impact on the local economy.

Things to do and see in Newcastle.

Newcastle upon Tyne is one of England's best kept secrets. A party city that rates alongside New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro. A centre of culture and architecture. The starting point for tours of the Northumberland coast and Hadrian's Wall. Home town of the Geordie culture, with a rich heritage of folk music and dance and its own obscure dialect.

Newcastle started life as a Roman town at the end of Hadrian's wall, the border between Roman controlled Britain and the unconquered wilds of Scotland. The ruins of one of the forts marking the end of the wall can be seen at Segedunum (A short walk from the Wallsend Metro station). It developed into an important port and during the 19 century was an industrial centre built on the strength of the local coal industry. As heavy industry went into decline, Newcastle's fortunes took a dip. The city has now re-invented itself as a Cultural centre and Science City, and is possibly one of the trendiest places to live or visit in the UK.

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The Tyne River is a short walk from the station, and has a pedestrian path on the near side reminiscent of the Queen's Walk in London. There are also city walks along the river, running from May to November. Information can be found at the Tourist Information Centre, near the Monument Metro station.
Remains of the Garth Castle (The Castle Keep) [2], the "new castle" of the city's name. Parts of it were built in the 13th century.
The remains of the Roman fort at Segedunum [3], a short walk away from the Wallsend Metro [4] stations. In fact many of the signs at the metro station have been translated into Latin, including the aptly named Vomitorium.
Central Arcade, a beautifully preserved traditional shopping arcade, which houses the Tourist Information Bureau and Windows of the Arcade, one of Newcastle's oldest music shops.

Do

The Theatre Royal [5] is an easy walk from the city centre or the train station (it is closest to the Monument station on the Tyne and Wear Metro [6]). It is the third home (after London and Stratford-upon-Avon) of the Royal Shakespeare Company, which usually does several shows there in the autumn. In November of 2005, they performed A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Comedy of Errors.
Attend a Newcastle United [7] game, at St. James Park near the University of Newcastle. St James's Park is the second largest ground in the country, with a 52,000 capacity. Only Manchester United's Old Trafford with 68,000 is bigger.
Attend a concert at the newly finished Sage Music Centre [8] (in Gateshead, a short walk to the other side of the Tyne)If you can't go to concert, just go in as it is certainly worth seeing.
Take in some modern art and sculpture at BALTIC [9] (near the Sage Gateshead), or The Biscuit Factory [10], Britain's biggest original art store. Here you can even buy your favorite pieces!
Tyne & Wear Museums [11] also manage the Laing Art Gallery [12], the Discovery Museum [13] (home to Turbinia, the world's first turbine driven vessel) and the Hancock Museum Of Natural History [14], which closed in April 2006 for refurbishment - reopening in 2009.
Visit the Centre For Life [15], a 'science city' in the centre of Newcastle that includes a state of the art research facility (Scientists at The Centre for Life are the first people in Europe - and only the second in the world - to get a license for stem cell research on human embryos). It also includes the Life Science Center, a visitors centre and interactive museum that looks at DNA, the human body and the origins of life. The visitors centre/museum is a must see.

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How to get to Newcastle

Newcastle has rapid access to the rest of the UK and Europe:

a busy international airport on the northern edge of the city provides links to most European capital cities
fast rail connections to London (2 hours 45 minutes) and Edinburgh (1 hour 20 minutes)
a busy coach station
ferry services from nearby North Shields to Holland, Germany and Scandinavia

By plane

Newcastle International Airport is located about 5.5 miles north-west of the city. Travel in to the city centre include:

The Metro line from the airport to Monument station which takes about 20 minutes and costs roughly £3.
Taxis can be ordered from the airport and it costs about £10 to get to the city centre.
The distance by car is about 7 miles and takes up to about half an hour to get in.

By train

Services to and from London run approximately every 20-40 mins during the day. The journey time is usually between 3-3.5 hrs. Newcastle also has trains to Oxford, Birmingham, Edinburgh, York and countless other destinations throughout the country.

In the UK, tickets can be bought on the day at the station using cash or debit/credit card, but it is often cheaper to book in advance for journeys to/from other cities.

If you buy something to eat at the station, you'll have to carry the wrappers with you until you get somewhere else. There are no rubbish bins at the station for security reasons.

At Newcastle Central Station, you will need coins to buy a ticket for the Metro system, the local underground and light rail network. Buses and taxis are easily accessed just outside the station, the main intercity coach station is 3-4 minutes walk, and bus interchanges are 10-15 minutes walk.

By car

Newcastle upon Tyne is at the joining of the A1 (the main East Coast route from London to Edinburgh) and the A69 (the route westwards to Carlisle and the M6). The A1 bypasses the city to the west.

There are a number of 'park-and-ride' points around the city to avoid the hassle of parking in the city centre. From these points, the Metro or bus will take you into the city for between £1 and £3.

By bus

The National Express has links from most major cities. The coach station is at the foot of St James' Boulevard, next to the Centre for Life, just a short walk from the centre of town. Most National Express tickets include free travel on the Metro , but check this out before you board the Metro.

By boat

North Shields, 7 miles east of the city centre, has daily ferry connections to Ijmuiden (Amsterdam - DFDS Seaways) and Norway (Fjord Line). Buses connect the ferry terminal to the city centre.

Get around

Newcastle is a compact city which is easy to navigate on foot, and many areas are pedestrianised.

Being on the banks of the River Tyne, some areas slope quite steeply. Buses and taxis are cheap and plentiful should this pose a problem.

The city has a well-run and efficient Metro system, the Tyne and Wear Metro. Day tickets for under four pounds, depending on the time of day and destination. This is useful to access the suburbs, airport, rail station and coast.

Regional rail services are regular and offer quicker access to nearby towns such as Durham, Sunderland, Hexham and Corbridge.

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