An HGV driver who was involved in fatal collision in Northumberland was found to be over the limit for drugs.
It was stressed in court that Craig Heal didn’t cause the accident, which killed 20-year-old Drew Kyle Docherty, from Crawcrook, and did what …
Murdered as he told his killers ‘I just want to go home’: Teen, 18, was stabbed to death by 10 boys who ‘swarmed like zombies’ after ‘selecting a stranger’ to hurt – as his mother says, ‘My cheeky chappy, blue-eyed boy just wanted to make his mam proud…
A son who lost his mother and stepdad in a horror A1 crash has recalled receiving the devastating call from 99 services telling him that his loved ones had died.On July 15, 2021, couple Elaine Sullivan and David Dalglish, from Seaham, were ki…
A lorry driver who caused a collision which killed three people has spoken out from his prison cell.
Ion Onut was using the internet on his phone when he crashed his Scania truck into slow moving traffic on the northbound carriageway of the A1(M) last …
Sam Fender wowed fans at one of his latest gigs, by bringing a popular soap star on stage to sing alongside him.
Shaun Williamson, aka Barry from Eastenders, joined the North Shields star at the Truck festival in Oxfordshire last night (July 23) – wher…
A local environmental charity has taken to the streets with a mock waste incinerator to protest about a new “waste to energy” plant proposed for the region.Darlington Friends of the Earth, in support of SINE (Stop Incineration North Eas…
A steel reinforcing company’s “blatant disregard” for health and safety regulations, which played a part in two workers suffering serious finger injuries, has cost it almost £500,000 in fines and costs.Serious failings were found with two machines and …
A city Parks worker driving a truck during sand cleaning in Coney Island struck and killed a man sleeping on the beach early Monday, police said.The city worker was driving a truck accompanying the vehicle that cleans debris on the sand when he hit the…
Firefighters have rescued a distressed calf after it got stuck up to its neck in mud. A worried passer-by contacted Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service concerned about the animal stranded in East Boldon between Shouth Shields and Sunderland.&nbs…
EVIDENCE of what appeared to have been a “substantial” cannabis farm was found by police in living quarters above a village barber’s shop.As officers arrived to search the premises, in Ushaw Moor, on March 2 this year, two men present, Albanian na…