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Former colleagues and friends have marked the long-time city leader's life
Billy Elliot is back on home turf and has been earning rave reviews for its return to the Sunderland Empire
Coun Glen Gibbins has been convicted over "grossly offensive" messages

Former colleagues and friends have marked the long-time city leader's life
Billy Elliot is back on home turf and has been earning rave reviews for its return to the Sunderland Empire
Coun Glen Gibbins has been convicted over "grossly offensive" messages
A number of Newcastle stars are in international action for their countries across the next couple of weeks
Jon Venables, who was aged 10 when he and Robert Thompson murdered two-year-old James Bulger in 1993, told a Parole Board panel he was not seeking release and members ruled he was not suitable for release
