Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle's Irene Gibson is amazed to receive more than 170 cards for her 107th birthday.

Plans for more than 500 Northumbria University student bedrooms in Newcastle are narrowly approved.

He subjected his partner to a campaign of violence and "psychological manipulation", a court hears.

Nathon Gibbon, 33, denies causing the deaths of three people in the Scottish Borders in July 2024.

The files, said to have been destroyed last year, were related to the 1984 so-called Battle of Orgreave.

David Beadle, from Shildon in County Durham, says remembering his children will spur him on.

One billion plastic pellets have polluted the north-east England coastline, estimates suggest.