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• Geordie Shore: New boy Marty makes memorable first impression

  19-04-2016 23:50 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Newcastle lad Marty McKenna sent hearts aflutter and punches flying as he made his Geordie Shore entrance on Tuesday night as series 12 continued
  
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• Which North East landmarks would Tim Peake be able to spot from space?

  19-04-2016 22:27 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The astronaut shared a snap of the North East from the International Space Station - we take a look at which landmarks he could see
  
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• What would you ask David Cameron about the North East and the EU referendum?

  19-04-2016 21:27 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Snap poll reveals 70% of ChronicleLive readers want to leave the EU as we ask for your questions to David Cameron
  
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• Tragic death of Blyth dinner lady sparks calls for urgent shake-up of mental health services

  19-04-2016 21:22 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  North East health bosses are carrying out a homicide review after Susan Mitchelson was stabbed more than 50 times at her home in Blyth
  
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• Is this Tyneside's most annoying bottleneck junction? See for yourself

  19-04-2016 21:15 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  In our latest series on confusing road layouts we look at the annoying traffic lights off the Gateshead A167 flyover
  
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• Colin Gregg trial: Ex pupil says he wants justice not compensation for alleged sex attacks

  19-04-2016 21:08 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The man told jurors he was subjected to repeated sex attacks as a boy by teacher Colin Gregg in his study and car at prestigious Durham School
  
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• Durham Chorister School receives royal visit to mark 600th anniversary

  19-04-2016 21:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Durham school celebrated 600 years with a specially-commissioned art installation and an elaborate cake
  
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• See the little-known site of a 1950s Cold War plane crash on Northumberland fell

  19-04-2016 19:49 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Chroniclelive photographer Tim McGuinness found the crash site in the North Pennines
  
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• Alan Shearer names his favourite managers, dream six-a-side team and the best pub for a pint

  19-04-2016 19:45 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Shearer's favourite manager is not a huge surprise while his six-a-side team would not be short of a goal or two
  
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• North East experts reveal women at higher risk of developing dementia

  19-04-2016 19:40 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Newcastle University researchers contribute to study which details how two thirds of new dementia cases are expected to be women
  
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• Man dies after falling from the Wearmouth Bridge in Sunderland

  19-04-2016 19:37 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Northumbria Police attempted to talk the man down before he fell from the Wearmouth Bridge on Tuesday afternoon
  
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• Sunderland burglar traced by DNA on glove left at scene of the crime

  19-04-2016 19:35 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Jason Taylor, who wrestled with a Sunderland taxi driver after being caught raiding his home, was snared by the DNA on glove
  
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• West Denton lad Bobby Suttle faces weeks in a wheelchair after allegedly being struck by taxi

  19-04-2016 19:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Cabbie 'helping police with enquiries' after six-year-old seriously injured outside his West Denton home
  
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• Uber in Newcastle sees taxi driver numbers increase from handful to more than 300

  19-04-2016 19:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Taxi app firm says after successful first year in Newcastle its ambition is to offer a full-service in other parts of the region
  
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• River Tyne cast as symbol of hope in fight against cancer

  19-04-2016 19:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A 135-mile walk from sources of the Tyne to the sea launched by Daft as a Brush cancer charity and dedicated to sufferers and their families
  
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• South Tyneside newsagent fined for selling cigarettes to children

  19-04-2016 19:01 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Monir Hussein, of Chichester News in Stanhope Street, South Shields, admitted selling tabs to a 16-year-old
  
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• Nice one Tim! North East delight at astronaut's snap of Newcastle from space

  19-04-2016 18:54 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Image of the North East taken by Tim Peake from International Space Station is unique and 'lucky', says expert
  
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• Watch the moment Charlotte Crosby reveals on This Morning that she wants to leave Geordie Shore

  19-04-2016 18:40 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  She told Holly Willoughby and Phil Schofield that she thinks she needs to leave the show to get on with her love life
  
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• First Drive: 2016 Porsche 911 Turbo

  19-04-2016 18:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Range-topping sports car is more outrageous than ever.
  
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• Watch footage of the film Payroll which was shot in Newcastle 55 years ago

  19-04-2016 16:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Tyneside-set film Payroll came before Get Carter and Stormy Monday and was premiered on this day in 1961
  
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• Police and Crime Commissioner vote 2016: Who are our candidates and what are they promising

  19-04-2016 16:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  We take a look at the profiles and pledges of the people hoping to lead Northumbria Police and Durham Constabulary after elections on May 5
  
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• Blazing the way: Newcastle helps celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday

  19-04-2016 16:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Thursday's ceremony will see beacon lit in city centre as part of a UK-wide trail to mark landmark day
  
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• Tyneside team climbs equivalent of world's tallest building in aid of Kian Musgrove

  19-04-2016 15:26 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Gym members beat Dubai rivals and hit the heights in scaling 830 metres in rope climbs for brave cancer sufferer Kian Musgrove
  
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• Boys aged 12 and 13 arrested after indecent images of children circulate at South Tyneside schools

  19-04-2016 15:02 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Police arrange "special lessons" with South Tyneside pupils amid concerns after the arrest of two boys for possessing indecent images of a child
  
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• Watch hedgehog with head stuck in crisp packet rescued by caring cabbie

  19-04-2016 14:56 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Taxi driver Dean Matthews found the hapless creature crossing a road in Sunderland after dropping off late night fare
  
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• Busy Newcastle City Centre junction gets new countdown timers to help prevent accidents

  19-04-2016 14:48 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The indicators at the Grainger Street and Bigg Market junction show pedestrians how much time they have left to safely cross the road
  
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• Newcastle's Discovery Museum closes car park to make way for outdoor plaza

  19-04-2016 14:37 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The development will have the Challenger 2 battle tank as its focal point and be finished by late summer
  
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• Police warning after telephone scammer conned Cramlington pensioner

  19-04-2016 14:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  An elderly Cramlington woman fell victim to a telephone scammer who claimed she had won a cash prize and then stole from her account
  
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• Falklands war hero Simon Weston's praise for Newcastle care company

  19-04-2016 14:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Falklands War veteran arrived in Newcastle as part of his role as ambassador for North East care company
  
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• Geordie Shore 5th birthday photo quiz: Can you guess who the cute kids are?

  19-04-2016 14:04 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Geordie Shore will soon celebrate its fifth birthday and to mark the occasion we have some pictures of its cast as five year olds
  
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• Durham Police make 'fowl' discovery in car after arresting burglary suspect

  19-04-2016 13:45 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Durham Police officers find hens and power tools crammed into the back of a car after pursuit in Peterlee
  
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• If North Tyneside mayor voted out who or what would replace it?

  19-04-2016 13:42 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  We answer your questions about the May referendum which could see the North Tyneside mayor booted out
  
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• Motorists warned to drive safely on country roads

  19-04-2016 13:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  This warning comes after GEM Motoring Assist found nearly 60% of all fatalities take place on rural roads.
  
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• West End shop could lose licence over legal highs, black market booze, and illegal tobacco

  19-04-2016 13:14 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Best on the West had promised to stop selling legal highs while hundreds of untaxed bottles of spirits were found by Trading Standards
  
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• Rolls-Royce launches Nautical Wraith

  19-04-2016 13:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Custom-built car is homage to superyachts.
  
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• Garden events in the North East for May: Plan a visit and tell us about your events too

  19-04-2016 12:48 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  This diary of garden and floral events will help you find inspiration for your own garden across Tyneside, Northumberland, County Durham and Wearside as well as being a pleasant outing in its own right
  
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• North Tyneside Mayor - the case for and against keeping the position

  19-04-2016 12:40 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Ahead of May 5 referendum about keeping the elected mayor we look at both sides of the argument in North Tyneside
  
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• Gregory Porter, Roberto Fonseca and Ibrahim Maalouf go down a Gateshead storm - Jazzwise magazine

  19-04-2016 12:40 via jazzwisemagazine.com
  Gregory Porter, Roberto Fonseca and Ibrahim Maalouf go down a Gateshead storm
  Jazzwise magazine
  Held in one building across one weekend, Gateshead International Jazz Festival is small by UK standards, but it's always so impressively comprehensive. Wandering between the Sage's two concert halls, the jazz lounge and the free stage on the concourse, ...
  
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• 'Fuming isn't the word' and other things parents said on finding out their child's school placings

  19-04-2016 12:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  There was celebration and frustration as North East families found out whether they had got their first choice school
  
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• Man arrested in connection with video footage of alleged Metro headbutt

  19-04-2016 12:26 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Teenager due at court in Newcastle after mobile phone footage appears to capture man punching and headbutting Metro
  
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• Watch 'lost' film footage of a 1960s drive across the Tyne Bridge into Gateshead

  19-04-2016 12:24 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Recovered film footage shows a car drive across the Tyne Bridge and on to Gateshead High Street in 1967
  
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• First Drive: 2016 Audi RS

  19-04-2016 11:10 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  What did the uber-powerful RS Q3 need? As it turns out, more power…
  
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• This is the sickening moment a reveller is knocked out cold with a single blow in Durham

  19-04-2016 11:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The victim had been enjoying a night out in Durham when he was attacked on Silver Street, leaving him with hearing loss
  
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• Astronaut Tim Peake shares stunning picture of Newcastle from space

  19-04-2016 10:05 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Tim Peake shared a picture of the city admiring the 'good weather over the Toon' from the International Space Station
  
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• Taliban fighters attack Afghan security agency injuring 200 people

  19-04-2016 09:44 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The attack, including a suicide car bombing, appears to have targeted an agency similar to the US Secret Service, providing personal protection for high-ranking government officials.
  
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• Gran reunited with Metro worker who saved her dog's life when he fell between the train and platform

  19-04-2016 09:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Maria Murphy, 50, was with seven-year-old granddaughter, Alisha, when Sonny the Staffie slipped down the gap
  
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• New history walk in the city will reveal Newcastle's Irish heritage links

  19-04-2016 09:22 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Former Newcastle city council leader Tony Flynn creates heritage tour on centenary of Dublin rebellion
  
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• Time running out to find Ecuador quake survivors

  19-04-2016 09:05 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Teams from Ecuador and neighbouring countries fanned out across the country's Pacific coastline to look for the dozens of people still missing.
  
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• The morning news headlines: Pro-EU lobby treating voters like children - Michael Gove; MPs to investigate 'profound impact' of sexual violence in schools

  19-04-2016 08:31 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  PRO-EU LOBBY TREATING VOTERS LIKE CHILDREN - MICHAEL GOVE
  
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• Strawberry Place development could scupper West Newcastle Metro expansion

  19-04-2016 07:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Nexus said it could not extend the Metro west if plans to build high rise flats and offices outside St James' Park are approved
  
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