NEW eco-towns in the North East were yesterday rejected after the Government appeared to admit the creaking transport network might struggle with additional pressures.Read
BINGE drinking teenagers run the risk of turning absent minded because of the damage booze is doing to their brains, research carried out in the North-East has revealed.Read
THE Minister for the North East is being told by city leaders, fed-up with seeing cash taken from local sports to fund the Olympics, to keep a watchful eye on funding for the London Games.Read
AFORMER Labour councillor has criticised the “damaging” party policy that forced him to resign because of his gender and that could see a candidate who lives 23 miles from the ward being elected.Read
ACRIME-busting team of five police officers have cracked down on 100 criminals in just three months, including members of a notorious neighbourhood gang.Read
SUNDERLAND housing chief Peter Walls was yesterday awarded £100,000 damages over a “malicious and relentless” campaign of libel and harassment from the now defunct DadsPlace website.Read