Gateshead news

• Police search teams comb area around Jarrow home where man's body was found

  31-03-2019 20:31 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Officers continue to question woman arrested after 45-year-old found dead at flat on Thames Avenue
  
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• How did April Fools start? There are a few theories on why we play tricks on April 1

  31-03-2019 18:33 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Calendar confusion, Roman mythology and fish have all been linked to the custom of April Fools tricks
  
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• The Likely Lads: The re-released feature film and why there was never a third series

  31-03-2019 17:53 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  As the Likely Lads feature film is re-released, one of the show's creators, Ian La Frenais, recalls its life and times
  
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• Audi driver was doing 130mph on the A1 while over the drink-drive limit, police claim

  31-03-2019 17:34 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  But Craig Hutchinson denied he was speeding and was only charged with drink-driving
  
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• Shutters battered at Sainsbury's shop in Peterlee during failed ram-raid

  31-03-2019 16:59 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The shop has been taped off after the shutters were damaged by a car which was repeatedly reversed into the shop entrance
  
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• Taxi driver on the run after smashing into Cleadon church hall

  31-03-2019 16:50 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The occupants of the taxi which crashed into the Old Schoolroom on Sunderland Road ran off before police arrived
  
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• Mother's Day babies: The bundles of joy that made the day extra special for these Newcastle families

  31-03-2019 16:34 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  It was a busy day on the delivery suite at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary
  
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• The Iceland shoplifter who would make prison staff 'gasp in horror' if she was jailed

  31-03-2019 16:14 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  For 25 years, Sarah Campbell has been breaking the law - and now she's struck again in Iceland in Wallsend
  
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• Boots wants shoplifters to pay its staff's wages - for investigating THEIR crimes

  31-03-2019 16:01 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A North Shields thief was slapped with the demand in the criminal - not civil - court
  
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• Wet 'n' Wild water park in North Shields reopening date revealed

  31-03-2019 15:50 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The popular North Shields leisure venue was closed to the public over the winter months while maintenance work was carried out but it will re-open soon
  
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• Inside the historic buildings in North Shields being turned into luxury apartments

  31-03-2019 15:42 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A total of 28 new homes are being created at Northumberland Square in North Shields as part of a multi-million pound regeneration scheme by North Tyneside Council
  
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• Boat towed back to shore after fishermen become stranded in the North Sea

  31-03-2019 15:26 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  The fishing vessel Moremma was towed back to North Shields after raising the alarm and sending out a distress signal
  
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• Alleged paedophiles stand side-by-side in court to face 11 charges

  31-03-2019 15:23 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The duo are accused of distributing and possessing indecent images as part of a raft of charges
  
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• Sunderland fans injured as Trafalgar Square is flooded with supporters and flares are set off

  31-03-2019 15:10 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  SAFC fans have made the most of the trip down to London and thousands of supporters flooded central London on Saturday
  
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• UK 'Porn Block' delayed beyond April 1 - but an announcement is expected soon

  31-03-2019 14:35 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The measure aims to stop children accessing porn, but a Sunderland University professor says 'we should all be worried' about the new law
  
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• Taxi crashes into Cleadon church hall leaving building 'unsafe' with gaping hole

  31-03-2019 13:53 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A taxi ploughed head first into the Old Schoolroom building in Cleadon in the early hours of Sunday but nobody was injured
  
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• Mum of boy with rare condition was 'overjoyed' to learn she had the key to saving his life

  31-03-2019 13:31 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Ben Cadwallader's parents watched their son waste away from a mystery illness - but when the diagnosis finally came it was even more serious than they had feared
  
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• Harry and Meghan's baby could share a birthday with the Queen

  31-03-2019 12:59 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Meghan has said her first child is due around the same time his or her great-grandmother will be turning 93
  
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• Man charged with murder of his brother Damien Banks after fatal stabbing in Durham

  31-03-2019 12:55 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  Damien Banks, 34, died after suffering stab wounds at a home in Durham city on Saturday and his brother has been charged with murder
  
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• Woman grows hedge 'to stop man looking in' as neighbour dispute turns ugly

  31-03-2019 12:51 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Nightmare neighbour Stephen Miller repeatedly flouted restraining orders - and left his victims spooked
  
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• BMW owner admits drink-driving for the second time after row with girlfriend

  31-03-2019 12:41 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Self-employed painter and decorator Jonathan Ayre was caught over the limit in Newcastle
  
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• Gangrene-plagued paedophile 'was such a risk he had to be kept on a chain'

  31-03-2019 12:35 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  OAP was serving a 16 year sentence in high risk prison which has housed a cannibal
  
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• Restoration of 14th century pele tower in Northumberland can now go ahead

  31-03-2019 12:25 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  Campaigners aiming to return Cresswell Pele Tower to its former glory agree deal with landowners, which will enable essential work to begin
  
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• Sunderland AFC flop Alfred N'Diaye declared bankrupt

  31-03-2019 12:19 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  It has emerged the Senegal international was declared bankrupt at the High Court
  
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• Geordie Shore star Chloe Ferry excitedly tells fans she's opening her first beauty salon

  31-03-2019 11:56 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  The MTV star took to social media to reveal she had been given the keys to her new shop and it would be opening in the next month
  
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• Woman arrested after man's body found in Jarrow home in early hours

  31-03-2019 11:36 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  Northumbria Police is investigating the circumstances surrounding the man's death after he was pronounced dead in the early hours of Sunday
  
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• What went wrong in Newbiggin Hall? Families tell of rapid decline of estate they were once proud to call home

  31-03-2019 10:57 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Drugs, anti-social behaviour and nothing to do - locals reveal what life is really like in their community
  
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