A fundraiser honouring the life of a South Shields dad-of-two has now raised more than £18,000. Chris Brown, from South ...

Plans to convert former housing association offices into a children’s nursery and apartments have taken a step forward, ...

Reece Galbraith and his friend Jason ‘Jay’ Laws were using a Newcastle flat as a drugs lab when a blast ripped through the building.

Police found the explosion that killed Archie York, seven, and Jason Laws, 35, in Newcastle was caused by a butane gas build-up in a drugs lab.