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  • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
    Football
    Premier League chair set to resign over Saudi-led Newcastle takeover

    Majority of top-tier English football clubs have pressed for Gary Hoffman to step down

  • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
    Football
    Premier League rivals vote to block Saudi-linked sponsorship at Newcastle Utd

    Eighteen football clubs back motion at emergency meeting amid concerns over new owners

  • Sunday, 10 October, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Newcastle’s Saudi deal is shocking, not surprising

    The Premier League should spell out why the buyers are suitable owners

  • Friday, 8 October, 2021
    Newcastle United Football Co Ltd
    How a Saudi-led consortium won control of Newcastle United

    Deal for Tyneside football club was pitched on a megayacht on the Red Sea and overcame concerns about piracy and murder

  • Friday, 8 October, 2021
    FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
    Newcastle United’s capital expenditure crisis, charted

    How not to spend it.

  • Friday, 8 October, 2021
    Due Diligence
    Saudi Arabia’s Newcastle takeover proves money conquers all Premium content

    Plus, the tale of a $10tn Wall Street titan and the SoftBank-backed hotel start-up looking for its big break in India

  • Tuesday, 7 September, 2021
    Artificial intelligence
    Robot shopping companions prove popular with the elderly in UK trial

    Participants found to go out walking more frequently with device carrying their bags

  • Tuesday, 17 August, 2021
    News in-depthUK manufacturing
    Tech billionaires back north-east England as green electric hub

    Californian developer backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos funds transport innovation in former industrial region

  • Sunday, 18 July, 2021
    News in-depthCoronavirus pandemic
    Newcastle on edge as England ushers in ‘freedom day’

    Region with one of highest infection rates in Europe records alarming rise in hospital admissions

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Newcastle shows how university cities are struggling to contain Covid

    Measures taken at start of term after infection rates soared appear to be bearing fruit

  • Thursday, 8 October, 2020
    Sebastian Payne
    Gateshead café owners braced for second lockdown

    Survival through bleak winter of UK businesses that also serve as community social hubs is uncertain

  • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    North-east England prepares for tougher restrictions

    Rise in coronavirus infections leads ministers to introduce curfews and limits on socialising

  • Wednesday, 16 September, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    North-east of England faces pub curfew and limit on people meeting

    Sharp rise in coronavirus cases in region of 2m leads to plan for tightening of restrictions

  • Thursday, 25 June, 2020
    Antonia Cundy
    Work from home could help the UK to level up

    It might also halt the great British graduate brain drain to London

  • Friday, 31 January, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    First UK cases of coronavirus as pair treated in Newcastle hospital

    Government says NHS can contain virus after student and family member are taken to specialist unit

  • Tuesday, 19 February, 2019
    News in-depthEnglish devolution
    Pro-Corbyn group challenges ‘heir of Blair’ to be metro mayor

    Momentum pushes to use position as test bed for ‘radical municipal socialism’

  • Thursday, 20 September, 2018
    Next Act
    The allure of the allotment

    A desire for self-sufficiency — and to cut plastic packaging — inspires young and old

  • Tuesday, 4 September, 2018
    News in-depthTechnology sector
    Sage’s solid reputation shaken

    UK’s biggest listed tech company suffers missed targets and searches for new chief

  • Tuesday, 28 August, 2018
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Shipping container developments offer lifeline to small businesses

    Container park in Newcastle helps to revitalise city centre site

  • Saturday, 25 August, 2018
    Brexit
    Labour support crucial for vote on Brexit deal, says Cable

    Lib Dem leader tells rally public opinion is turning against a no-deal exit from the EU

  • Sunday, 8 July, 2018
    UK business & economy
    New breath of life for coal industry landmark

    North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers faced being sold and its archive dispersed

  • Friday, 22 June, 2018
    News in-depthUK banks
    CYBG takeover of Virgin Money raises concerns in Newcastle

    Remnants of Northern Rock bought by Branson face upheaval — and up to 1,500 job cuts

  • Friday, 11 May, 2018
    Television
    UK regions vie to lure Channel 4

    More than a dozen towns and cities submit bids to become TV channel’s new home

  • Tuesday, 27 February, 2018
    UK business & economy
    Great Exhibition of the North to light up Newcastle

    £12.5m series of events to show off Northern Powerhouse

  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2018
    Sport
    Proposed Newcastle United takeover collapses
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