However, her half-marathon debut on Tyneside on 1 October did not go according to plan.
Clubs from Northumberland, Tyneside, Teesside, County Durham, Cumbria and North Yorkshire compete in two divisions.
South Tyneside College is scrapping A-Level provision because of a big fall in student numbers.
Union officials say that this will damage the quality of education at the Tyneside site.
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Newcastle University, for example, runs a scheme with local schools and colleges on Tyneside.
The search for an 88-year-old Tyneside man is continuing a week after he went missing.
Drivers have been warned to take care on roads across Northumberland, Tyneside and Wearside.
North Tyneside Council said it had deployed dedicated engineering teams to monitor which routes were worst hit.
In 1952 she toured the shipyards of Tyneside and later in the decade visited schools and coleges.
It has not been confirmed whether the deaths in Tyneside are being linked to the clostridum illness.
It happened in December 2011 at Harton Primary School, South Tyneside, following an argument between the men.
Dame Catherine was revered on Tyneside, and South Tyneside Borough Council now markets itself as 'Catherine Cookson Country.
Now the talk is of winning even bigger orders, with employment once again for thousands of Tyneside shipbuilders.
Alexander Cromar, who has Alzheimer's, was reported missing from his home in Jarrow, South Tyneside, on 6 June.
Swimmer Josef Craig from Jarrow, South Tyneside, set a new world record in the S7 400m freestyle final.
One of the areas that saw the effects of heavy rain was around Boldon Colliery, in South Tyneside.
An 85-year-old concert venue on Tyneside could close within three years, the leader of Newcastle Council has said.
The source of a food poisoning outbreak after a three-day festival on Tyneside has been traced, health chiefs said.
There are now 46 clubs from Northumberland, Tyneside, Teesside, County Durham, Cumbria and North Yorkshire competing in the league.
Takes in Jesmond, Gosforth, North Heaton, plus Benton and Northumberland from North Tyneside.
And Edgar believes he will be prepared for an electric atmosphere having been involved in the hotly-contested Tyneside derby.
However, councils in Northumberland and Tyneside said they were coping with the cost.
Hundreds of homes were left without power in parts of Northumberland and Tyneside earlier as areas experienced heavy snowfall.
The event was being followed by a midnight firework display on Tyneside's quayside.
Engineering giant Siemens is creating up to 300 new jobs on South Tyneside in a deal to build train carriages.
Lindisfarne, hugely popular with local audiences in the 1970s, were one of the biggest bands to come out of Tyneside.
The turnout in North Tyneside will determine whether the appetite for the mayoral system in the North East continues to fade.
Sunderland and South Tyneside councils handed over lifeguard services to the RNLI in 2009 in a move aimed at saving cash.
Bendtner dragged an angled strike wide before the Tyneside outfit almost punished Wenger's side for not making more of their chances.
Two workers at a Tyneside funeral home have been sacked over a mistake which led to the wrong body being cremated.
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