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Our correspondents report back on the highlights of this year's Jesmond Community Festival

Spanish Battery busk at the opening of Oxfam's new music room in Jesmond

Jim Naughtie paid us a visit as part of a package on the future of local news

Should local newspapers be given a tax break?

Half an hour of local news, entertainment, discussion and banter from the people who bring you JesmondLocal. This edition is sponsored by Waitrose and hosted by newcastle Cricket Club - and features interviews with iCan's Austen Hempstead and the cricket club's Olwyn Hocking plus performances from The Line and Tall Tales and Short Stories. Banter provided by Dan Howarth. Presented by Sophie Bauckham and Ian Wylie. Sound by Kat Stevenson and Louis McGovern.

Michael Farr, leading 'Tintinologist" and an adviser to Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, speaks to JesmondLocal ahead of his talk to the Friends of St George's Group