A puppy found locked in a cupboard and two cats rescued from a house fire were among the animals handed into a shelter in the ...

Kieran McMahon, of Gateshead, has been jailed after he and others broke into the Newcastle Repair Centre and stole four ...

Jayjay Quick was caught with a suitcase crammed with 37 kilos of cannabis after arriving at Newcastle Airport from Bangkok ...

Metro trains have been suspended between Gateshead Stadium and Heworth in Newcastle in both directions due to the closed ...

HS2 Ltd estimated that the cost of building the railway would be between £67 and £83 billion in current prices but officials ...

Wind turbines generated a record amount of electricity for the second time in a week, providing more than two thirds of the ...

The Prime Timers, made up of 17 care home residents, broke the Guinness World Record for the oldest choir in the world, with ...

The Government has announced plans to boost welfare and working conditions for seafarers through new legal mandates. The ...

A top health charity has raised concerns over a decrease in the number of people participating in cancer screening, despite ...

British strawberry-growers have adopted innovative methods to supply the nation with domestically-grown strawberries on ...

Leader of Gateshead Council Martin Gannon issued a statement on Friday evening on the disruption to the Tyne and Wear Metro ...