The annual Blaydon Race returns to the region this weekend with thousands of people set to take part. Held on June 9 each year, the 5.8 mile route takes runners from Newcastle Quayside, along ...

THE Blaydon Races - the national anthem of the Geordies, and a 5.7-mile race run every June 9th from Newcastle to the town of Blaydon. In 1862, an annual horse race meeting held in meadows alongside ...

NO sooner had I finished the Blaydon Races and got my photograph taken with the Blaydon Belle, than I was in the car driving south to Stoke-on-Trent, the destination for the next race in the schedule ...