- North Tyneside councillors reject recommended allowances increase
While allowances will stay as they are, calls to reduce them were voted down.
- EuroMillions results LIVE: Winning Lottery numbers for Friday, September 25
The winning National Lottery numbers for tonight's EuroMillions and Thunderball draws
- Sunderland handed second injury blow 24 hours after Brian Brobbey hamstring issue
Brian Brobbey was forced off the pitch with a hamstring issue during the Netherlands' Nations League clash with Germany on Friday, with Sunderland injury news going from bad to worse just 24 hours later
- Girl, 11, who suffered persistent vomiting rushed to Freeman Hospital and put on 'super urgent' heart transplant list
11-year-old Scarlett Icke fell ill suddenly. She had a lethal heart condition that had been previously undetected.
- 'I thought I was about to die' - North East couple postpone wedding after 'terrifying' crash
Andrew Calder and Alixandra Cadden-Young were involved in the collision in the van he uses for his business, while driving home from a food festival
- North East woman 'utterly convinced she was going to die' in terrifying three hour ordeal
Craig Merrigan, of Sunderland, subjected the woman to a shocking attack which has left her traumatised
- Footage shows another driver going the wrong way on A1 at notorious Northumberland junction
It happened at the same junction where a motorhome was forced to carry out a u-turn after making the same mistake
- The five big talking points of Matthias Jaissle's 50 days in charge at Newcastle United
From brutal Nick Woltemade decision to giving £55m man a second chance on Tyneside
- Pregnant mum is killed in ‘one of worst cases of domestic violence’
Zak Hughes, 29, beat 27-year-old Sarah Montgomery to death at her home
- Five people missing after huge explosion causes building to collapse in Athens
A huge explosion has caused a two-storey building to collapse close to the Acropolis in Athens, with five people missing and two women rescued from the rubble
