Newcastle Northstars Newcastle Northstars The Newcastle Northstars are an amateur ice hockey team in the Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL). The team plays its home games at the Hunter Ice Skating Stadium (nicknamed 'HISS') in Warners Bay, a suburb of Lake Macquarie located about 15 kilometres south-west of Newcastle, New South Wales. The Northstars are six times winners of the AIHL and with it, the historic Goodall Cup in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2015, and 2016. The team is affiliated with the Newcastle Northstars Ice Hockey Club, Ice Hockey New South Wales and Ice Hockey Australia. Ice hockey started in the city
2016 Newcastle City Council election UKIP targeted seats in the East of the city such as Byker and Walker. Despite this, in 2016, no UKIP councillors were elected to Newcastle City Council. http://democracy.newcastle.gov.uk/mgElectionElectionAreaResults.aspx?EID=6&RPID=3367655 retrieved 23:32 10 May 2016 2016 Newcastle City Council election The 2016 Newcastle City Council Council elections took place on 5 May 2016 to elect one third of the members of Newcastle City Council in England. The elections took place on the same day as other local elections. Despite the election, it was mathematically impossible for the Labour Party to lose control of the council given that only a third of seats