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POLICE investigating a suspected murder at a Seaham petrol station are searching for 19-year-old Ashton Anderson. Officers from Durham Constabulary have released details and a picture of Mr Anderson, who is wanted in connection with the incident which...
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‘Radiant light’ Aimee’s legacy of love and joy
THE funeral of a 16-year-old girl who died after a medical episode at school will take place later this month. Aimee Wood passed away after an emergency at St Wilfrid’s RC College in South Shields, South Tyneside, last month. Police and paramedics, as...
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Man stole 34 iphones worth £50k and sold them for £100 each
A COURIER sold iphones worth more than £50,000 which he was being paid to deliver to customers. DHL received complaints that 34 iphone 16 pro max handsets had not been received by people who ordered them. Newcastle Crown Court heard investigations...
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Takeaway worker’s ear bitten after thug demanded free food
A THUG bit the top off a takeaway worker’s ear when he refused to hand over food for free. Wayne Kilty went into the Chinese restaurant in Sunderland on October 10 and demanded a meal for nothing, Newcastle Crown Court heard. A member of staff...
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Murderer’s daughter hid bloody clothing after dad killed man
A MURDERER’S daughter and two other people have avoided prison for hiding clothing she was wearing while her dad brutally killed a man. Mya Mouter was in a flat while her father, Wayne Froud, 36 and Steven Milroy, 48, savagely killed Sean Mason in...
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Tributes to woman who tackled taboos around cancer
LOVED ones have paid tribute to a Tyneside woman who “never faltered” despite developing terminal bowel cancer – and who even helped thousands on social media by raising awareness. Zoe Harrison, 33, died last month, three years on from her cancer...
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SEX CHATS CHURCH WORKER SNARED BY DAUGHTER
A CHURCH treasurer was caught trying to communicate sexually with a child in a sting by his daughter and her friend. To the outside world, Stephen Lo was a family man and churchgoer who was trusted to look after the finances of a North East...
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Attempted murder probe launched after two seriously injured
A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder as a woman fights for her life in hospital. The North East Ambulance Service attended a property on Durham Street in Elswick, Newcastle, at 6.38pm on Friday evening. They raised a report of...
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Man beat ex-partner and left her by road
A DOMESTIC abuser subjected his then-partner to a terrifying attack before leaving her injured and bloodied on a dual carriageway. Michael Cogdon launched an attack on the woman while she was driving back from Roker Beach in Sunderland, grabbing the...
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£12k raised for charities after Halloween arson
MORE than £12,500 has been raised after a famous Tyneside Halloween display was burned to the ground in a suspected arson attack. Stan Yannetta had been putting on the popular attraction outside his home in South Shields for 19 years but it was set...
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Mum’s breast cancer alcohol link warning
A MUM only learned about the connection between booze and breast cancer when she was diagnosed herself – and now she is urging others to cut down on alcohol like her. Sheridan Dixon, 63, was diagnosed with breast cancer last August, and went under the...
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Woman subjected to lengthy violent attack
A VULNERABLE woman was subjected to a violent ordeal spanning several hours in which she was beaten with her own walking stick and repeatedly knocked unconscious. The woman was at home on April 19 when James Reed turned up demanding the payment of a...
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POISON PLOT GP‘COULD HAVE KILLED MY FAMILY’
A DAD-OF-FOUR who fell victim to poison plot Sunderland GP Thomas Kwan has told how he feared for his life after drinking vodka laced with the poison thallium. Torquil Gundlach has told how he fell ill after drinking the Smirnoff Red Label laced with...
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Rapist who attacked three women jailed
A MAN who raped three women has been jailed. Christopher Bell subjected his victims to rapes, sexual assaults and strangled them until they struggled to breathe. Bell, of Sedgefield, appeared at Durham Crown Court on Friday, September 26, where he...
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Enter the dragons!
NEWCASTLE Quayside was transformed into a festival of colour yesterday as the Dragon Boat race returned to the River Tyne. Spectators of all ages came to see the action for a fifth year as racers took to the water between the Tyne and Millennium...
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Man shouted racist abuse at neighbour
A MAN shouted vile racist abuse at his neighbour after he asked him to turn down his music. Johnny Smith was inside his home with a friend when the victim called around and asked him to keep the noise down. However, rather than politely comply, the...
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GOVERNMENT HAS NO PLANS FOR PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO ALLEGED AMBULANCE SERVICE ‘COVER-UPS’
NORTH East Families who have long raised concerns that the deaths of their loved ones were “covered up” by the ambulance service are angry and frustrated that the Government has no plans to hold a public inquiry. The families are affected by a scandal...
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Couple left terrified after attack on home
A VULNERABLE elderly couple were left petrified in their home after it came under attack when they provided refuge for their pregnant neighbour as she tried to hide from her violent partner. The woman had been in a “troubled” relationship with Lewis...
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TRIBUTES PAID TO ‘DUNSTON’S ONLY MACKEM’ LIAM, 27
DEVOTED Sunderland fan Liam Smith became known as his community’s ‘only Mackem.’ Growing up in Dunston, Gateshead, the painter and decorator spent his life surrounded by black and white, but remained fiercely loyal to his beloved Black Cats. And now,...
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Protest in city over asylum seeker hotels
PROTESTERS took to Newcastle city centre demonstrating against UK asylum policy again yesterday, while counter-protesters shared the message that refugees are welcome in the city. A substantial police presence was on the scene with officers keeping...
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Protesters clash over asylum seeker hotels
DEMONSTRATORS in Newcastle angry about the use of hotels to house people seeking asylum took to the streets in the city centre yesterday afternoon. They were met by a counterprotest called by groups including Stand up to Racism and Newcastle...
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IS HERE! 19-YEAR-OLD DIES IN ELECTRIC MOTORBIKE ACCIDENT
AN investigation has been launched following a fatal crash in Bedlington. Shortly before 3pm on Friday, a 19-year-old man sustained serious injuries in a collision involving an electric motorcycle. The teen sadly died a short time later.
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Scientist’s joy at helping families in IVF programme
A LEADING NHS scientist has celebrated playing a vital part in a pioneering IVF programme which has seen eight children born without inheriting a potentially life-threatening genetic disease. Dr Louise Hyslop is a consultant embyrologist working on...
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Man attacked police officer after arrest
A THUG broke a police officer’s jaw in an unprovoked attack after believing he was the victim of a “police conspiracy”. Connor Fraser was suffering an “exasperation in his paranoid schizophrenia” when he punched the officer to the floor after being...
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Head teacher who bit, slapped and scratched child avoids ban
A DEPUTY head who bit, slapped and scratched a child while teaching at a school in County Durham has been spared a ban from teaching. Claire Herbert worked at the Red Rose Primary School in Chester-le-street when she got into an argument with a girl...
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PROBE INTO 28 CASES OF SUSPECTED BOTULISM
THERE have been 28 suspected cases of botulism in the North East linked to cosmetic procedures in recent weeks, the UK Health Security Agency has confirmed. The cases are thought to be related to cosmetic injections involving the use of botulinum...
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Colin going ‘Whole Hogg’ to raise £11k for charities
A WASHINGTON man is set to complete an epic ‘Whole Hogg’ challenge as he nears the end of his charity walk from Washington to Keswick. Colin Hoggarth has been walking in memory of four incredible people close to his heart from Washington. Each who...
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Victim stabbed after grappling bike thief
A TEENAGER who stabbed a dad in the middle of the street after trying to steal his bike has been jailed. Jake Milner, 19, inflicted four stab wounds on his victim after he was caught stealing the bike. Newcastle Crown Court heard the victim was at...
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35,000 Black Cats fans
SUNDERLAND have secured a place in the Premier League after beating Sheffield United in a thrilling English Football League Championship play-off final at Wembley. More than 40,000 fans are expected to have headed to the capital to support the Black...
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Cabbie terrified by attack with sledgehammer
A DRUNKEN thug left a taxi driver terrified after pulling a sledgehammer out of his pants and attacking his car while demanding the keys. The victim was working as a taxi driver, based in Newcastle, when, just after 5am one morning in June 2023, he...
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Safety concerns for staff and patients
PATIENTS with learning disabilities and autism suffered a “significant number of injuries” on some North East NHS wards, health inspectors have found. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) visited three wards run by the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and...
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Co-accused says it was his friend who cut down the tree
ONE of the men accused of felling the Sycamore Gap blamed his co-accused for the crime in an anonymous call to police, a court heard. Prosecutors claim groundworker Daniel Graham, 39, and mechanic Adam Carruthers, 32, drove around for 40 minutes from...
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Quick-thinking cop helps save man’s life
A POLICE officer acted quickly to help save the life of a 75-year-old who suffered a stroke. During a patrol in his Framwellgate Moor patch on Saturday, PC Mikei Hubbard spotted an elderly gentleman who appeared to be struggling, and was rightly...
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Attacker found man inside ex’s wardrobe
A MAN repeatedly stabbed his former partner’s friend after finding him hiding in her wardrobe. The jealous thug had warned his ex he would do harm to any new man in her life and started stalking her. On his birthday last October, Hinsley forced entry...
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Man ‘hit by vehicle and slashed with a weapon’
A MAN has been taken to hospital after being hit by a vehicle and slashed with a weapon during a disturbance in Billingham. Emergency services were called shortly before 4.45pm to Station Road, near the junction with Allendale Road, on...
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Family’s petrol station raid saw them all in court
A FAMILY raided a petrol station shop pocketing vapes, hotdogs, crisps and drinks. Daniel Dumitru, Florica Cristea, Monica Cristea and Radu Cristea stole goods worth £349 from Wolviston services – but say the theft wasn’t pre-planned. Dumitru, 34,...
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Jail for stalker who threatened to kill ex partner
AN obsessive stalker who threatened to kill his ex-partner and set fire to her friends’ and family’s homes has been jailed. Jason Howe was arrested after a tracker was placed on his former partner’s car while she was at work in May last year. The...
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Woman jailed after sexually abusing boy
A MANIPULATIVE sex offender who groomed and sexually abused a young boy has been jailed for four years. Caitlin Hutchinson groomed the boy over several months, sending him sexually explicit text messages and making him carry out sex acts on her. Her...
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Jail for predator bus driver who groomed girl, 13
A ‘PREDATORY’ bus driver who met and kissed a child after grooming her has been jailed. Daniel Annis contacted the youngster on Snapchat out of the blue on the day she turned 13. Having wished her a happy birthday and been told her age, he embarked on...
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Treasure
A METAL detectorist who found a hoard of silver sixpence coins dating back to the 16th century said he is “over the moon” after learning they are classed as treasure and will be kept in a museum. John Ord Renshaw, 44, was out in County Durham when he...
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Running seven
A MARATHON runner from the North East is taking on the most challenging feat of his life by running over 26 miles every day on different continents for a week. Sunderland-born Paul Holborn is taking on the World Marathon Challenge, which started in...
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WHEN I LOOK BACK NOW I THINK ‘JESUS, THE SIGNS WERE THERE FROM DAY ONE’
■ Anita Harvey has courageously relived her ordeal with partner John Stone in a bid to warn other women not to ignore the ‘red flags’ when starting a new
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Thug beat up man in busy city centre
A CITY centre thug engaged in “grotesque violence” in front of children and elderly people in the middle of the afternoon. It was around 3.40pm on May 28 last year that CCTV operators saw a fight taking place on Blackett Street, in Newcastle. The...
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Man rode horse and carriage while drunk
A MAN has been fined for riding his horse and carriage down a Northumberland road while drunk. Garry Addison was causing an obstruction to other road users as he travelled through Prudhoe on his horse and cart. The 42-year-old was reported to police...
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Jailed after £1k of booze taken from strip club
A BURGLAR who broke into a city centre strip club and stole more than £1,000-worth of booze has been locked up. Martin Hart forced his way into Blue Velvet, on Dean Street, in Newcastle, via a fire exit door, before jumping over the bar and putting...
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Stricken kitten saved by emergency surgery
A SIX-MONTH-OLD kitten would have died without surgery after eating netting from the Christmas roast beef, causing his insides to ‘concertina’ up together. The incident took place last Boxing Day at his owner Joshua Simpson’s home in Darlington. When...
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Love and support key to long life, says Lillie
SPRIGHTLY Lillie Ridley is celebrating turning 103 – and has revealed her secret to a long and happy life. Lillie, who has lived in the North East for all of her 103 years, marked the special milestone on Friday. She said the love and support of her...
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Flyover closed due to structural damage
THE Gateshead Highway flyover has been closed to all traffic with immediate effect after a risk to safety was identified by structural engineers. Inspections and monitoring over recent years on the flyover’s condition have indicated that while the...
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Pervert sent ‘teen’ films of animal abuse
A PERVERT sent horrific videos of animals being sexually abused to a “teenage girl” he was chatting to online. Kevin Clark, 63, sent the videos of a woman having sex with a horse and a dog, after the online user said she “liked animals.” Clark used...
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Ant and Dec’s T-shirts will help buy gifts for children
I’M A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! presenters Ant Mcpartlin and Declan Donnelly have launched a limited edition T-shirt to raise funds to buy Christmas presents for children living in poverty. The Geordie duo, who are currently in Australia...
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‘Ihopethatican finallyhave timeto grieve
Samantha Morris waited two years to find out answers on how her husband Aaron died after a collision, despite having a high chance of survival – now she is hoping to have closure and time to grieve and focus on her children after the inquest into his...
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Double ban as drug driver caught again
A FORMER site manager at a housing development failed to learn his lesson after he was caught drug-driving on the same stretch of road twice in less than three months. Undeterred from his first arrest, James Matheson once again got behind the wheel...
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MAN ADMITS BEATING HIS EX TO DEATH
■ Melissa Eastick suffered more than 100 injuries, including cigarette burns, after being subjected to a series of savage attacks by Stephen Todd
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Lone arm-wrestling club is going from strength to strength
THE only arm-wrestling club in the North East is celebrating recent wins in regional competitions, and is looking forward to nationals next month. Newcastle Arm-wrestling Club, based in Alpha Gym, Benton, was founded by Dave Curry with the help of two...
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‘WE NEED TO DO MORE TO KEEP YOUNG SAFE’
MORE needs to be done to help young people cope with the breakdown of relationships without turning to stalking and violence – that’s the view of Sue Hills, whose daughter Alice Ruggles was murdered by her obsessive ex, Trimaan Dhillon, after hearing...
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