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• Thieves who stole gas canisters from Durham hospitals during lockdown face jail

  29-04-2020 20:43 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Norfolk-based gang targeted hospitals in County Durham, Stockport and Manchester between March 21 and 23.
  
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• Seven arrested after man is airlifted to hospital following assault in Blyth

  29-04-2020 20:11 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The 35-year-old was flown to hospital with life-threatening injuries on Wednesday afternoon
  
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• Sunderland monuments to be lit up in rainbow colours for key workers

  29-04-2020 19:44 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Northern Spire Bridge and the National Trust's Penshaw Monument will be lit up for key workers
  
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• New displays supporting key workers brighten up roadsides across County Durham

  29-04-2020 19:28 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Teams from Durham County Council placed new installation across the county with some in Bishop Auckland, Chester-le-Street, Newton Aycliffe, Seaham and Consett
  
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• Why we still don't know exactly how many people are dying in coronavirus crisis

  29-04-2020 19:02 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Senior Government scientist says it will take some time before we know the full death toll
  
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• Covid-19 death toll in North East climbs by 26, NHS England confirms

  29-04-2020 19:01 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Updated figures show the death toll in the region has continued to climb as national figures passes 26,000
  
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• The doorstep photo shoots that capture unique view of lockdown life

  29-04-2020 19:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  One North East photographer is capturing a unique moment in history with photos of family life during lockdown
  
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• Man 'critical after falling from a window' in Benwell

  29-04-2020 18:09 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A Northumbria Police investigation was launched following the incident on Condercum Road
  
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• MP writes to government over the future of Durham football clubs

  29-04-2020 18:08 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Richard Holden, MP for North West Durham, has written to a government minister to raise issues at the following clubs; Tow Law Football Club, Consett Football Club and Crook Town Football Club
  
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• Met Office warns the North East is set for a week of 'unsettled weather'

  29-04-2020 17:29 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  After weeks of sunshine, lockdown life is about to get easier as Met Office forecasters say that a 'marked change' has arrived, with lower temperatures and rain due
  
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• Bridge lights go green for social care - Gateshead Council

  29-04-2020 17:16 via gateshead.gov.uk
  
  Bridge lights go green for social care  Gateshead Council
  
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• North East 'short-changed' by latest Covid-19 cash support

  29-04-2020 17:02 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Every council in the region will be getting less money from the government's second round of £1.6bn support than in the first, it has been confirmed
  
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• Mum's terror after four-year-old son falls from tractor and fractures skull

  29-04-2020 17:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Daniel Aynsley fell from the vehicle while helping on his family's farm in Northumberland and was flown to hospital in an air ambulance for treatment
  
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• Daughter of businessman who died of covid-19 helps her dad's memory live on

  29-04-2020 17:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  John Shallcross, founder of Wallsend metal suppliers, Patterson Ryan, died just one day after he tested positive for coronavirus. Now his daughter, Joanna Shallcross, is raising money in his memory for NE Youth, the charity he passionately supported for 40 years
  
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• Eight scenarios of how coronavirus lockdown could be eased

  29-04-2020 16:56 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The latest on schools, construction, offices, social gatherings, hospitality, retail, sport and travel
  
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• Sunderland post office worker 'thought he was going to be stabbed' by raider

  29-04-2020 16:48 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Keaton Cooper, 21, from Ryhope, left staff terrified when he tried to rob a post office in Grangetown, Sunderland, and a shop with a machete.
  
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• Thousands of calls have been taken

  29-04-2020 16:41 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  So far North Tyneside Council has fielded more than 3,200 calls from the public
  
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• Fans react to Steph McGovern's decision to cancel lockdown show

  29-04-2020 16:11 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The North East favourite ends her home-based show as she 'never expected lockdown to go on this long'
  
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• Pensioner injured in Wallsend crash recovering in hospital

  29-04-2020 16:04 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Police are appealing for witnesses to the collision, on Churchill Street, which left 73-year-old man seriously injured
  
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• Housing group Gentoo has made 800 domestic abuse calls since lockdown

  29-04-2020 16:04 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The housing provider's victim support team is currently dealing with 69 cases of domestic abuse in the city
  
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• Martin Lewis issues Ryanair refund update after customers sent vouchers

  29-04-2020 15:48 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The budget airline has axed a large number of flights due to the coronavirus andemic, and under EU law, it’s obliged to give anyone who has a flight cancelled the option of a refund
  
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• Coronavirus: South Tyneside update on garden waste collection

  29-04-2020 15:40 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Collections have resumed in Sunderland and Durham - but South Tyneside is yet to take action
  
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• Billy Charlton illegal images trial will not take place until July 2021

  29-04-2020 15:38 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  William Bernard Charlton, known as Billy, of Seaham, faces four allegations relating to indecent and extreme images
  
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• University chief urges government to protect training of future key workers

  29-04-2020 15:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Sunderland University Vice Chancellor Sir David Bell is backing a national campaign after coronavirus highlighted the importance of the nation's key workers
  
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• TUI advises when holidays are likely to restart as more flights are cancelled

  29-04-2020 15:25 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  TUI has pushed its holiday restart dates further back as the coronavirus pandemic continues and has given information for travellers regarding refunds
  
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• Disney's most popular villain revealed and result may surprise you

  29-04-2020 15:17 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A survey has revealed the most popular Disney villain based on Google searches since the launch of Disney+
  
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• Bradley Walsh shocked as contestant reveals what she'd use money for

  29-04-2020 15:14 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Beat The Chasers contestant Sarah-Jane leaves Bradley Walsh in shock after telling him what she'd do with prize money
  
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• Newcastle funerals to be shown online during lockdown

  29-04-2020 14:50 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The number of mourners attending funerals in the city has been limited to just 20 because of social distancing rules to slow the spread of Covid-19
  
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• The strict new rules as Northumberland is set to reopen tips

  29-04-2020 14:14 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Council leader Peter Jackson wrote to provider Suez asking for Household Waste Recovery Centres in the county to reopen and agreement has now been reached
  
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• Man found on building roof in Chester-le-Street due in court

  29-04-2020 14:13 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  David Gray, 38, of no fixed address, has been charged with five offences and is due to appear at Magistrates' Court
  
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• The Chase's Paul Sinha storms off show after humiliating error

  29-04-2020 14:02 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Chaser Paul 'The Sinnerman' Sinha was left angry after getting a question wrong on Tuesday night's episode of The Chase
  
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• North East's Nightingale Hospital days from completion and is set launch

  29-04-2020 13:48 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The facility Sunderland is due to be completed by the end of April and will be launched next week
  
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• New tea room to open at family-run County Durham boutique

  29-04-2020 13:25 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The owners of Pears Boutique, which is currently closed, have three years to implement the changes
  
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• Man attacked partner with rolling pin, racially abused cop and defecated in cell

  29-04-2020 13:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  David Turner assaulted his partner then tried to bite a police officer and defecated in his cell after being arrested
  
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• Coronation Street legend 'confirmed' for I'm A Celebrity

  29-04-2020 12:56 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Coronation Street star Beverley Callard is being hotly tipped for the new series of I'm A Celebrity
  
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• Labour's Chi Onwurah tries to block increase in mobile phone bills

  29-04-2020 12:50 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Bills are set to rise by 2.7% at a time when many people depend on their phones even more than usual
  
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• Child's sweet poem for key workers is sure to put a smile on your face

  29-04-2020 12:50 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  This poem, praising frontline workers during the coronavirus lockdown, was written by a seven-year-old girl, from Wallsend, and was sent to North Tyneside Council
  
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• Bookies reveal surprise favourite for Boris Johnson's baby name

  29-04-2020 12:15 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Bookmakers have released the odds for what Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds will call their baby boy
  
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• Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds' baby born after Prime Minister returns to work

  29-04-2020 11:53 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The couple's baby boy was born on Wednesday and both mother and baby are described as 'doing very well'
  
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• Cheryl's show The Greatest Dancer axed by BBC

  29-04-2020 11:52 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Greatest Dancer has been axed by the BBC after its second series failed to pull in huge audiences
  
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• Man's body found inside burning car in Sunderland street

  29-04-2020 11:33 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Police officers remain on the scene in Chatsworth Street as they investigate the death which is not currently being treated as suspicious
  
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• Chaser Jenny Ryan denies accusation that Beat The Chasers is fixed

  29-04-2020 11:14 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Jenny 'The Vixen' Ryan responded to a viewer's accusation that Beat The Chasers is fixed in favour of the Chasers
  
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• British tourists may need a 'coronavirus-free' certificate to holiday in Turkey

  29-04-2020 10:48 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Turkey's Culture and Tourism Minister announced the plans in a bid to salvage the tourism economy
  
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• Piers & Susanna have viewers in tears with heartbreaking NHS tribute

  29-04-2020 10:46 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Good Morning Britain hosts had viewers at home in tears with a tribute to NHS works who've died from coronavirus
  
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• Everything we know about the second phase of coronavirus lockdown

  29-04-2020 10:23 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  There has been talk about a "phase two" of the lockdown but what does it mean and what does the Government have to say about it? - here are more details
  
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• Dr Hilary reveals how long coronavirus symptoms can actually last

  29-04-2020 10:22 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Speaking on Wednesday's Good Morning Britain, Dr Hilary Jones revealed how long coronavirus symptoms can last
  
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• See the hundreds of scarecrows in the North East showing support for key workers

  29-04-2020 09:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Robbie Ternent and Elle Whalley set up a group on Facebook, Stay Home Scarecrows, and now over 700 scarecrows have appeared to show support for people who are working on the frontline.
  
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• Paedophile tried to delete cartoon-prohibited images of kids when police arrived

  29-04-2020 09:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  William Carmody, of Sunderland, who has a long history of sex offences, said he thought cartoon images of children being abused was less serious that images of real youngsters
  
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• Multi-language Coronavirus advice videos for Gateshead communities - Gateshead Council - Gateshead Council

  29-04-2020 09:00 via gateshead.gov.uk
  
  Multi-language Coronavirus advice videos for Gateshead communities - Gateshead Council  Gateshead Council
  
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• Bridge lights go green for social care - Gateshead Council - Gateshead Council

  29-04-2020 09:00 via gateshead.gov.uk
  
  Bridge lights go green for social care - Gateshead Council  Gateshead Council
  
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