Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
A FORMER policeman who killed his wife with a 26-ton truck then set up home with a new lover only months later is beginning a five-year sentence behind bars. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
A DIG started yesterday in a bid to uncover more of the story behind the palatial home of a Northumberland nobleman executed for leading a rebellion. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
A FREEDOM fighter was honoured yesterday near the spot on Tyneside where he was born exactly 260 years ago. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
A DAD whose baby son was killed by his ex-partner says he has forgiven her. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
A DOCTOR is holding a charity auction to raise cash for the school her son attended in a poverty-stricken part of South Africa. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
AIR passengers will be able to recycle more before they jet off on holiday, thanks to new bins. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
FAMILIES of patients treated by Dr Howard Martin will be consulted before a decision is taken on whether to re-open an investigation into the disgraced GP. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
THE Duke of Northumberland has put forward plans to tackle a monopoly on petrol in his home town. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
SUPERMARKET giant Tesco has agreed to sell the former Vaux brewery site in Sunderland city centre to One North East so it can be redeveloped as a business district. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
OLYMPIC heroine Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson came to the North East to promote a special event to mark two years until the Olympics. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
THE North East has been warned to brace itself for the “disproportionately harsh” effects of spending cuts and tax rises when the Chancellor unveils his emergency budget today. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
A FREEZE in Council Tax could come at the cost of tax rises elsewhere, city leaders have warned. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
A MAJOR new television detective series is to be filmed in the North East this summer following the chance purchase of a book in an Oxfam shop. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
A LIBRARIAN has described the moment he realised an ancient Shakespeare first edition he’d been asked to authenticate was a priceless relic that had been stolen a decade earlier. Read
Jun 22 2010 | Today's News
A METRO carriage took a break from life on the tracks for a run out on some of the North East’s busiest roads yesterday. Read