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Sunday For Sammy, Newcastle City Hall

11:36am Tuesday 9th February 2010

ONLY at the North-East’s sell-out of Geordie entertainment could you see legend of guitar Mark Knopfler being thrown off stage twice, just a few bars into his Dire Straits’ hits.

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Miike Snow, Digital, Newcastle

11:37am Tuesday 9th February 2010

MIIKE SNOW have burst onto the music scene this year, after been tipped as one of the bands to watch for 2010.

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Wok rock

11:35am Tuesday 9th February 2010

Chinese Food In Minutes (Five, 7.30pm) Caprica (Sky1, 9pm) I Hate Mum (BBC1, 10.35pm)

Squashed flat

11:45am Tuesday 9th February 2010

From a meal that’s worse than the weather to breakfast fit for a king and some cracking fish and chips.

Best of order

12:06pm Monday 8th February 2010

Law And Order: UK (ITV1, 9pm); Delia Through the Decades (BBC2, 8.30pm); Paul Merton in Europe (Five, 9pm)

Nina finds sweet inspiration

12:15pm Monday 8th February 2010

Steve Pratt talks to an actress who has learned to combine a tragic role with road tours, Elvis-style.

Backstage chat from the first night at the NME Awards with Sophie Stratford

7:04pm Saturday 6th February 2010

I caught up with The Drums and Bombay Bicycle Club backstage during the first kick off show of The NME Awards in Newcastle. Amongst them were The Big Pink and The Maccabees that also teamed up for the shows.

Love is in the air

12:04pm Saturday 6th February 2010

Edinburgh’s world-class culture, architecture and hospitality make it a serious rival for Paris’s title as Europe’s most romantic city. With Valentine’s Day approaching, The Northern Echo visited Edinburgh for a weekend in Scotland’s classy capital.

Privacy: A Very Short Introduction (OUP £7.99)

11:59am Saturday 6th February 2010

THERE’S very little you can keep private nowadays – even if you’re captain of the England football team, eh John? – thanks to the intrusion of the press, TV, electric surveillance, online security and the like, yet it is something which we should all enjoy and which is well worth preserving. And in the face of even more threats such as ID cards, this sounds a very timely alarm call…