Festival provides great showcase for producers

A couple from South Shields, who have run a successful Indian restaurant for the past six years, plan to take festival food to the next level. Amina Rahim and Begum Uddin gave visitors to The Great North Feast – held in Bents Park over the Bank Holiday weekend – a taste of what is to…

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Companies praised for festival success

The organiser of some of the summer’s most popular festivals has praised companies in South East Northumberland for helping to make them such a success. The Cramlington Proper Food and Drink Festival took place at the weekend and later this month (11 and 12 August) visits Blyth. The team behind the events – lead by…

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Great North Feast planning second course in South Shields

Organisers have thanked the thousands of people who flocked to the first Great North Feast. The festival was a celebration of the best food and drink produced in the North East as well as throughout the world. It took place in South Shields’ Bents Park over all three days of the Bank Holiday weekend and…

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The Great North Feast coming to South Shields

A free new event for the North East, celebrating food and drink, is coming to South Shields later this month. The Great North Feast takes place in Bents Park over the Bank Holiday weekend. It is being organised by the team behind the highly successful Proper Food and Drink festivals which have visited six towns…

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Two festivals confirmed for South Shields next year

South Shields will next year enjoy a double taste of the very best food and drink with the confirmation of two Bank Holiday festivals. The ever-popular Proper Food and Drink Festival, which is free to enter, returns to Bents Park for a fourth year on 27, 28 and 29 May and the first Great North…

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