Metroccentre for shopping (you are a girly arnt you)...there is a cinema at the Gate...(Haymarket)...at top of Bigg Market.
Metrocentre is in Dunston...other side of river to Newcastle.....you will see the turn off on the right when you come near the river on the way along the A1....its a few hundred yards before you cross the river on the right.
Loads of restaurants. Stowell St for Chineese....Loads of Indian....Dene St has Kula Khan.....its an eat as much as you want Mongolian reastaurant..you pick the raw food and they then cook it for you ...its like a raw buffet