Come Dine with Me is coming to the North East looking for couples to take part in their new season. Couples from Sunderland, Durham, Hartlepool, Newcastle, Middlesbrough and the surrounding areas can apply to show off their cookery talent and help the programme “create the recipe for success”. The programme […]
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird has written a guest blog for a website aimed at tackling Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). 28 Too Many is a values based charity working to end FGM. The primary focus is on research and enabling initiatives in the North East to end FGM […]
Police are renewing their appeal for witnesses as an investigation into the death of a Gateshead man earlier this month continues. Forty-two-year-old Ali Mazin Mahmod, also known as Mohamed Rashwan, of Newbolt Court, in Felling, was assaulted during an incident on Sunderland Road near the junction with Wordsworth Street, Gateshead, […]
A man has admitted murdering a woman during a row at his home. Michelle Gray, 42, was found dead in a house in Gateshead on December 19 last year. At Newcastle Crown Court yesterday (April 21) Carl Anderson, 41, of Highfield Street in the Bensham area of the town pleaded guilty to her murder. […]
The man who targeted disabled pensioner Alan Barnes in a cowardly attack that shocked the nation and inspired a huge fundraising campaign has been jailed for four years. In a bid to feed his addiction to legal highs Richard Gatiss left the frail 67-year-old, who had been taking out his […]
Enquiries are being carried out after a 17-year-old girl was reportedly raped in Gateshead this morning (March 19). The incident look place at 3:15am today (March 19) in Watergate Park, Sunniside. She was believed to have been in Collingwood Street earlier last night. The police force is carrying out enquiries and […]
Students from Gateshead College have volunteered to take part in a community safety project in Blaydon. The volunteers are going to be working with Gateshead Housing Company, Gateshead Council and the Neighbourhood Policing Team, looking at the crime and anti-social behaviour experiences of people who live in that area to […]
A Gateshead family have been left in distress after two of their birds were killed during a break-in. Between 4pm on Monday and 6.30am on Tuesday, police were informed a shed at an allotment had been broken into in Blaydon Bank, Winlaton, where the two ducks were killed and two […]
Police investigating a shop theft in Gateshead have released CCTV of a man they need to speak to. The incident took place at 8.05pm on Tuesday, December 23, when a North Face jacket was stolen from Snow and Rock at Gibside Way at the Metrocentre. Police investigating have released a […]
Newcastle and Gateshead areas have been targeted by bogus callers since December. There have been three reports of a man asking to be invited in with the intent to take something from inside the property. In all the cases the residents have been elderly and have invited him in. On one occasion, the bogus caller […]