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The Newcastle United head coach will have to make some big calls to stay in the St James' Park hotseat
The boy was slipping into a coma
Ex One Direction star Niall Horan has just announced his Dinner Party tour will be coming to Newcastle
Yoane Wissa has struggled for regular game time during his debut season at Newcastle United after suffering a knee injury at the start of the campaign
Jade Duncan, 41, described as the 'funniest, bubbliest and kindest woman' died at the scene of a crash on the A1 in Berwick-upon-Tweed
Ross Clancy, of Newcastle, has pleaded guilty to a series of offences, including attempted murder of a woman and GBH with intent on her partner at a house in Elswick
If you watched one of the most talked about dramas of 2026 so far you'll have seen a street you've probably walked down before
A woman in her 80s is seriously injured in hospital after being struck by a car outside Aldi in Washington
The AA said the UK's transition towards electric motoring 'remains fragile'
Over the last three months, the council and Oasis Community Housing have conducted a census to grasp the scale of the area's female rough sleepers.
