Police have appealed for information after a disturbance in a street in Gateshead. Three men aged 20, 29 and 26 were arrested following the street altercation on Friday, April 15, but have since been released pending further enquiries. The incident occurred at around 10:30pm in the Old Fold area, near the […]
Police have appealed for information following an incident in South Shields last month. Between 9pm and 9:15pm on Tuesday, March 1, a man threatened another man and shouted offensive language at a woman outside the McDonalds on King Street. Officers are keen to trace a man who was in the […]
A man has died after falling from Wearmouth Bridge. Police were called at 3.30pm this afternoon after concern was raised for a man on Wearmouth Bridge in Sunderland. Officers attended and attempted to speak to the man. The man subsequently fell from the bridge and sadly died.
The candidate statements for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections have been published. By entering their postcode, electors can read and download the full political statements for the four Northumbria candidates. The deadline for candidate nominations closed on Thursday, April 7. This is the second time that voters in the […]
Two teenage girls have appeared in court charged with kidnapping a two-year-old with the intention of committing a sexual offence. The girls, aged 13 and 14 and from Tyneside, were also charged with shoplifting dummies, baby milk and a bottle. The little girl was taken from a Primark store in […]
A man from Newcastle is wanted by police after failing to appear at Crown Court. Thirty-five-year-old Stever Burr, from Wilbury Place, is wanted for on warrant after the Judge issued an order for his arrest. He was due to appear in relation to burglary offences. Police enquiries continue, and […]
Police are trying to locate a man from Newcastle who has been missing since January. Raymond French, 52, from Keith Close, has not been seen since January 2 when he left home, telling family he was going down south to see friends as he had done regularly in the past. […]
Police are appealing for information after several cars were damaged on the same street in Newcastle. The four vehicles were parked on Simonside Terrace, in the Heaton area of the city. All cars suffered damages totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds. The offender use a sharp object to scratch across the cars’ […]
Vandals have caused around £500 of damage to a community garden in west Newcastle. The ‘bike garden’, as it is known locally, was targeted last weekend. A polytunnel was destroyed among other damage at the site in Nuns Moor Park. The community project is run by charity The Time Exchange, which […]
Residents in Houghton are being urged to be on their guard to burglars and report any suspicious behaviour to police. In the past two weeks, there have been two burglaries in neighbouring streets. The first happened on Monday, March 28, in Outram Street, where a burglar smashed the back door […]