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• Our shelves heave with food but not much of it contributes to the health of us or the planet

  27-12-2015 19:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Kate Thick on the welcome steps we are taking to tackle world hunger - but how we have got a long, long way to go
  
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• North Tyneside teenager winning awards for her volunteer work

  27-12-2015 18:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Schoolgirl won recognition for helping older people with learning difficulties at VODA awards
  
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• Newcastle nurse saving lives at the hospital where her own life was saved

  27-12-2015 18:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Heaton nurse hopes to work fulltime on the hospital ward where she recovered from operation to remove a tumour the size of a rugby ball
  
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• Newcastle homeless charity forced to close after finding itself without a home

  27-12-2015 18:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Included provided care on Saturdays for the homeless from Crisis' City Road headquarters in Newcastle
  
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• New Years Day special radio show remembers legendary Teesside nightclub

  27-12-2015 18:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Club Fiesta is to be remembered by a special radio show on New Years Day - just over fifty years since it first took off
  
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• Meet the Newcastle West End Women and Girls Centre staff ending relationship abuse in young couples

  27-12-2015 18:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The West End Women and Girls Centre is sending workers to schools after figures revealed girls as young as 13 are being abused by their boyfriends
  
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• How inventors from the North harnessed energy for mankind

  27-12-2015 18:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Christmas lectures at the Mining Institute in Newcastle are set to explore how our inventive region led the world
  
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• Slatyford blackmailer threatened to 'engrave man's face' over £10 debt

  27-12-2015 16:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Dean Wright has been jailed for more than three years after sending menacing messages to a man from Gateshead
  
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• New Cramlington hospital welcomes NUFC stars onto children's ward

  27-12-2015 16:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Christmas was made extra special for patients at a Northumberland hospital thanks to a visit by players from Newcastle United
  
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• Mercy container arrives in Zimbabwe from South Shields

  27-12-2015 16:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A classroom in a container has completed its 5,500 mile journey from South Tyneside College to Bulawayo
  
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• Lee Devlin killing: Twin sister wants to help others who have been through a trauma

  27-12-2015 16:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Claire Devlin, of Howdon, is studying counselling at North Tyneside College to help others after her twin brother was killed in a Whitley Bay attack
  
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• Corbridge victim of Storm Desmond survived re-flooding by the 'skin of my teeth'

  27-12-2015 16:26 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Massive clean up operation begins across the North of England following prolonged heavy rain which brought widespread disruption
  
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• LIVE Gateshead - Guiseley - Football Conference Football - 28 December 2015 - Eurosport.co.uk

  27-12-2015 16:13 via
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  Football Conference – Follow the Football match between Gateshead and Guiseley live with Eurosport. The match starts at 15:00 on 28 December 2015. Our live coverage lets you follow all the key moments as they happen. Have your say by voting on who ...and more »
  

• South Shields Boxing Day dip for Kian Musgrove raises over £16,000 for charity

  27-12-2015 14:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Dippers helped towards overseas treatment for the two-year-old Newcastle boy who has twice been diagnosed with neuroblastoma
  
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• Pavel Srnicek's brother thanks Toon Army for half time chant at St James' Park

  27-12-2015 14:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Milan Srnicek said the Newcastle United crowd singing for his stricken brother sent shivers down his spine
  
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• North East taxpayers have spent £2.6m on failed plan to regulate Tyne and Wear buses

  27-12-2015 14:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Legal advice cost £1.4m while £500,000 was spent on 'consultants' but Nexus says the Buses Bill offers a glimmer of hope
  
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• Intelligence, sensitivity and sense of humour key to 60 years of marriage for Northumberland couple

  27-12-2015 14:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  John and Betty Dougray of Longhoughton celebrated their Diamond Wedding anniversary with a card from the Queen
  
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• Community comes together to search for missing Darras Hall mum Sally Allan

  27-12-2015 14:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Former teaching assistant has not been seen since leaving her family home during the early hours of Boxing Day
  
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• The Twin Farms at Kenton Bank Foot is our pub of the year

  27-12-2015 12:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Eddy Eats has enjoyed a year of fine Sunday dinners and has named the Newcastle pub as his best of 2015
  
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• North East bulldog lovers come to the aid of pet owners in flood hit Cumbria

  27-12-2015 12:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Dog owners in the North East have donated hundreds of pounds worth of pet equipment to flood victims in the North West
  
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• Hartlepool College students do their bit to help Cumbria flood victims

  27-12-2015 12:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Hospitality and Catering students sent food hampers to families flooded out of their homes for the festive season
  
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• Did you know one of the most famous Christmas angels was born in Prudhoe?

  27-12-2015 12:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Hollywood's most famous angel is to be remembered in his hometown in Northumberland
  
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• Christmas hedgehog seeks divine intervention at Newcastle church

  27-12-2015 12:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Fred the baby hedgehog was discovered hiding in at the church and is now at the Northumbrian Hedgehog Rescue centre
  
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• Flood warnings: Environment Agency warnings still in place for Northumberland

  27-12-2015 12:15 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Police say drivers need to take care on many roads in the North East following torrential rain which brought flooding to parts of the region
  
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• Police end stand-off with man on top of Coast Road bus shelter

  27-12-2015 12:03 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The man who was wearing shorts and a tee shirt has been taken to hospital after incident near Walkergate
  
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• Police in stand-off with man on top of bus shelter on Coast Road near Walkergate

  27-12-2015 11:09 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Officers have surrounded the man who is wearing a T shirt and wearing shorts standing on top of bus shelter near Walkergate
  
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• From Redcar steelworks to the Yves St Laurent Exhibition - the Bishop of Durham reflects on 2015

  27-12-2015 09:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Bishop of Durham Paul Butler looks back at an eventful year in the North East and forward to 2016
  
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• More than 1,300 Tyneside bikes vanished without a trace after burglaries this year

  27-12-2015 07:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Northumbria Police are urging Tyneside residents to keep their new Christmas bicycles secure to avoid theft
  
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• How to pick up Christmas themed nappies in Newcastle for pennies

  27-12-2015 07:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Our Walkergate money saving expert Ashleigh Swan says the period after Christmas is one of the best times for bargains
  
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