High Street giant backs local farm

SAINSBURY’S on Falconar Street in Newcastle has announced that Ouseburn Farm will be their new charity partner.

The store ran a two-week competition and invited customers to vote who they think should be their charity partner, with Ouseburn Farm receiving the most votes.

As part of an annual companywide initiative, stores choose a charity who they would like to support and become its Local Charity Partner. Last year, the store supported Guide Dogs.

During a recent visit, Gemma Sargent from the Sainsbury’s Falconar Street store said: “We’re really excited to be working with Ouseburn Farm and supporting such a fantastic cause. Everyone at Falconar Street is looking forward to working together for a successful partnership.”

Chad Male from Ouseburn Farm, said: “As a charity, we wholly rely on our community to support the farm, whether that’s through fundraising, volunteering, or by simply getting involved in any way they can. We’re particularly interested right now in linking up and partnering with businesses and companies in the region, and we’re delighted to be named the new Local Charity Partner for Sainsbury’s Falconar Street. I’d like to say thanks so much to everyone who voted for us and to the brilliant team at Sainsbury’s. This is going to make a massive difference.”

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THIS is one of Northumberland’s most dramatic ruined castles – as you’ve never seen it before.

Dunstanburgh Castle, near Craster, is one of six across the UK to be digitally “reconstructed” by NeoMam creative studios, and it shows how the Northumberland fortress would originally have looked.

“There is something wonderful about visiting castles,” said Gisele Navarro, NeoMam operation director. “As you walk through the ruins, your imagination begins to fill in the blanks about the people who lived there, the history of the place and the architectural details that have been lost.

“But what if you didn’t need to use your imagination?”

Dunstanburgh, which is managed by English Heritage, was built at a time when relations between King Edward II and his most powerful baron, Earl Thomas of Lancaster, had worsened.

Lancaster began the fortress in 1313, and it is thought to have been built more as a symbol of his opposition to the king than as a military stronghold.

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