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Alive after five

RETAIL outlets in Newcastle extended their opening hours yesterday in a bid to provide a multi-million pound injection into city centre business.

From 5pm yesterday, outlets extended their opening hours to 8pm weekdays and 7pm on Saturdays.

Free car parking in the Council’s 8 multi-storey car parks across the city is also in place and a host of events and activities have been launched as part of the ‘Alive after Five’ programme.

A line up of street entertainers and performance artistes has been developed to support Alive after Five which will run until 1 April 2011.

To launch and celebrate the transformation of the city centre, a whole host of carnival style activities was hosted at Newcastle’s Grey’s Monument last night.

Newcastle’s own, 20-strong drumming band, Newcastle’s All Stars performed with international street performers, Calvos Dos, stilt walkers and jugglers joined by fire eating.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .