 FUN-LOVING television duo Ant & Dec have invested some of their hard-earned fortune in the recently revamped Lodge bar, on Mosely Street.
Formerly Jonny Ringos, the bar underwent a massive refit last month. The pair are thought to have put in around £175,000 - half the cost of fitting out the place.
The Lodge is owned by Newcastle-based Ultimate Leisure, which last month announced pre-tax profits of £3.3m.
“Everyone knows Newcastle’s nightlife is second to none,” the pair said, on a visit after a recent Toon match.
And & Dec came up with the new name for the bar, and made the investment in order to have somewhere to take their mates, according to Ultimate chief, Bob Senior.
WETHERSPOONS are set to open a new outlet in The Gate leisure complex, on Newgate Street.
But the move comes amid allegations they have been short-changing punters, by selling pints which don’t quite measure up.
The national chain was recently fined £3,000 after trading standards officers were served drinks at Wetherspoons’ MetroCentre branch, which were around 10% short.
Despite the fine, Wetherspoons’ Newcastle branch The Union Rooms, on Westgate Road, was still cheating customers last month.
The Evening Chronicle paid the pub a visit with a CAMRA official, who ordered two pints, both of which were again around 10% short.
The team hit five Tyneside pubs, of which only one was giving punters what they paid for.
This was Au Bar, on Dean Street. whose Tetley’s passed the test.
 AN ERA ENDED this month, when World Headquarters closed its Marlborough Crescent operation and moved to Carliol Square.
The club was opened by the Caulker family - of Trent House fame - in 1989, originally as an ‘African cultural centre’ called Afrika, complete with a downstairs restaurant.
It became World Headquarters a couple of years later, and the restaurant was converted into a bar.
The area around Marlborough Crescent is being demolished to make way for a replacement for Gallowgate bus station and a compulsory purchase order was placed on the club.
The new venue is a fair bit bigger, in a six-story building recently bought by the Trent’s Tom Caulker and rechristened ‘Curtis Mayfield House’.
It will also be home a Newcastle branch of North Shield’s Globe Gallery.
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