Hebburn Today
Hebburn Town F.C. and Hebburn Reyrolle F.C. are the town's local non-league football teams. Hebburn Argyle, which existed in the early 1900s, is now defunct.
Athletics is also catered for at Monkton Stadium, home of Jarrow and Hebburn AC, where Brendan Foster, Steve Cram and David Sharpe are famous past runners.
The Parachute Regiment 4th Para Reserves have a detachment based in Hebburn.
Hebburn has an ecology centre powered by wind turbines.
It is the location of a shipyard, operated by A&P Group.
In 2012, BBC commissioned a brand new television series Hebburn set in the town. It was created and co-written by Jason Cook, who was raised in the town. The first episode was broadcast on 18 October 2012.
Read more about this topic: Hebburn
Famous quotes containing the word today:
“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will already get further up today or you will exercise your strength so that you can climb higher tomorrow.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)