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Hudson Hewitt, two, was found to have a twisted bowel and died in hospital
Hadush Kebatu was forcibly removed to his home country on Tuesday night with a team of five escorts on the flight, and arrived on Wednesday morning with no right to return to Britain, the Home Office said
Strictly Come Dancing professsional Kai Widdrington broke his silence on Wednesday
Darren Reed, 46, and Jackie Scotchbrooke, 52, were visiting Montego Bay during the storm
An electrician has warned that there are three household appliances that you should 'never' leave running when you're not at home, as they pose the biggest fire risks
We will be bringing you tonight's winning National Lottery Lotto and Thunderball results - live breaking updates below
David and Felix became the 3,000th and 3,001st moggies to be adopted from Cats' Protection's Tyneside Cat Centre when they were adopted by two families minutes apart from each other
The Toon Army have been caught up in the Microsoft outage which has had a knock on effect at St James' Park
The Reiver Trails vary in levels of distance and difficulty and are aimed at making rural areas of Northumberland accessible to all
Amazon and Microsoft are both experiencing outages, with the tech giants' cloud services down - here's a full list of every service affected by the internet chaos
