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Newcastle Restaurant Week is back at the start of August with one bar offering a United themed menu to diners
Isabelle Welsh suffered 21 broken bones in the weeks before she collapsed with a fractured skull at her North East home
All the latest Newcastle United transfer news and gossip as the Magpies want more signings in the summer window
The essential equipment are at sites stretching from St Peter’s Basin to the Redheugh Bridge, and can make a real different in life-threatening situations
Two teenagers have been arrested after armed police descended on Newcastle city centre
Andrew Pickering was almost three times the legal alcohol limit when he ploughed his car into the garden of his ex-partner's home on Valentine's Day, before crashing into two taxis and reversing into a tree
A new round of reports that Newcastle are in "advanced talks" with Arsenal on the sale of Bruno Guimaraes erupted just after lunchtime on Tuesday
The upcoming eclipse should be the most impressive since 1999
Northumbria Police officers also seized weapons, cash, two motorbikes and suspected class A drugs from a home in South Tyneside
Wayne Taylor and Ian Pascoe lost their lives after entering the water to rescue a child swept out to sea at Seaton Carew beach. An inquest has opened at Teesside Coroner's Court into their deaths.

