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National landmark and popular park in newcastle - upon - tyne, Leazes Park is open to the public and private community. For more information about this page please visit http://facebook.com/newcastle.gov.uk

The University of Newcastle upon Tyne Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering is a faculty of Newcastle University. It was established in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne as the College of Physical Science in 1871, for the teaching of physical sciences, and was part of Durham University. It existed until 1937, when it joined the College of Medicine to form King's College, Durham.The Faculty is structured around ten academic Schools, two Research Institutes and a number of Research Centres and Networks.SchoolsIn its current form, the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering contains ten schools: School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development School of Biology School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials School of Chemistry School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences School of Computing Science School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering School of Marine Science and Technology School of Mathematics and Statistics School of Mechanical and Systems EngineeringResearch and degreesThe faculty offers over sixty undergraduate degrees, postgraduate degrees and research opportunities. £4 million is received annually for research from over forty organisations including: The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) The European Union The Environment Agency The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) The Royal Society

Dame Allan's Schools is a collection of Independent schools in Fenham, in the west end of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It comprises a coeducational junior school, single-sex senior schools and a coeducational sixth form. Founded in 1705 as a charity, the original schools are two of the oldest schools in the city.HistoryThey were founded by Dame Eleanor Allan, the daughter of a local goldsmith and the widow of a tobacco merchant, to provide a proper education for "40 poor boys and 20 poor girls of the parishes of St Nicholas and St John". The schools were endowed with land at Wallsend, to the east of Newcastle. The original school seems likely to have been near St Nicholas' Church, and certainly was by 1778. The schools occupied at least six sites before they moved to the present site in Fenham, in 1935. The senior schools have shared the current site since 1935, but until 1988 they operated as separate boys’ and girls’ schools with a joint governing body. The governors then took the decision to appoint a principal with overall responsibility for the management of the two schools. At the same time, they created a joint mixed sixth form and reintroduced a mixed junior school.The plural, "schools", refers to the fact that Dame Allan's operates in a diamond format. In effect, Dame Allan's consists of 4 different schools: the co-educational Junior School for nursery to Year 6 are located in a separate building in Spital Tongues; the single sex boys' and girls' schools for years 7 to 11; and the co-educational sixth form (years 12 to 13).

Northumberland National Park is the northernmost national park in England. It covers an area of more than 1030 km² between the Scottish border in the north to just south of Hadrian's Wall. It is one of the least populated and least visited of the National Parks. The park lies entirely within Northumberland, covering about a quarter of the county.The park covers several distinct areas. In the north are the Cheviots, a range of hills that mark the border between England and Scotland. Further south, the hills give way to areas of rolling moorland, some of which have been covered by forestry plantations to form Kielder Forest. The southernmost part of the park covers the dramatic central section of Hadrian's Wall.The 10,000 year history of the region is explored through the many archaeological sites, ranging from prehistoric monuments and Roman remains to Pele towers, constructed as a defence against Border Reivers.The Park's official symbol is the curlew.EtymologyThe Northumberland National Park takes its name from the English county of Northumberland. Northumberland means "country north of the River Humber and is related to the name "Northumbria" which refers to the old Anglo-Saxon kingdom which once covered much of Northern England. Since the national park lies totally within the boundaries of Northumberland, that is the name it took.

Northern Rock plc is a British asset holding and management company which was split away from the Northern Rock bank in 2010. It is currently under public ownership, due to the bank's nationalisation in 2008. The company continues to service a residential mortgage book of approximately £50 billion.Virgin Money now own the "good bank" side of Northern Rock plc, however the government have said that they will not be selling Northern Rock .HistoryNorthern Rock plc was renamed from Northern Rock plc on 31 December 2009, and the following day the banking assets were split off into a new company called Northern Rock plc. Therefore the current legal entity which exists as Northern Rock company is in fact the company of the Northern Rock Building Society which turned into a bank in 1997.On 14 September 2007, during the financial crisis of 2007–2010, the Bank sought and received a liquidity support facility from the Bank of England, following problems in the credit markets caused by the US subprime mortgage financial crisis. At 00:01 on 22 February 2008 the bank was taken into state ownership . The nationalisation was a result of two unsuccessful bids to take over the bank, neither being able to fully commit to repayment of taxpayers' money. To better control the assets of the bank it was decided to split the company in two, forming the new bank and leaving this company as the so-called 'bad-bank'.