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
2018 Newcastle City Council election 2018 Newcastle City Council election The 2018 Newcastle City Council elections took place on 3 May 2018, on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom. For the first time since 2004, boundary changes occurred across Newcastle upon Tyne and the entire council was up for re-election. In June 2016, the Boundary Commission published draft proposals of potential new ward boundaries, with significant changes throughout the entirety of the city, though with some wards remaining the same. The Conservative Party candidate for the Manor Park ward, Florence Kirkby, is 96 years old and is believed to be