Gateshead news

• Why it is important you support the Cash for Connectivity campaign

  27-01-2021 23:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The campaign aims to support disadvantaged families who do not have access to the internet
  
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• Mum praises school for giving her laptop after losing job and contracting Covid

  27-01-2021 23:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Family received support from West Rainton Primary School to help get six-year-old Amelia completing online work from home
  
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• Headteacher says Cash for Connectivity campaign is 'lifeline' for families

  27-01-2021 23:30 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Teacher Jane Davis is supporting the Cash for Connectivity campaign which is aiming to get thousands of disadvantaged families online during lockdown
  
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• Help children learn by supporting Cash for Connectivity

  27-01-2021 23:29 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The campaign aims to support disadvantaged families who do not have access to the internet
  
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• How many episodes of The Bay series 2 are there?

  27-01-2021 21:14 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Bay's second series continues on ITV on Wednesday night after millions tuned in to see its return
  
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• All we know about lockdown rules being eased, Covid-19 jabs and schools opening

  27-01-2021 21:06 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson announced that lockdown measures won't be eased any time soon, with schools not set to return until at least March
  
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• The 30 high-risk countries that will require UK quarantine hotel stays

  27-01-2021 20:38 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Travellers arriving into the UK from countries deemed high-risk will need to spend their isolation in ‘quarantine hotels’
  
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• Professional film crew's stolen kit worth £43,000 was sold for just £2,000

  27-01-2021 20:12 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Claire MacClean, of County Durham, admitted handling stolen goods after selling the high quality gear for a fraction of its value
  
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• Lotto results: Winning Lottery numbers for Wednesday January 27

  27-01-2021 19:53 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The National Lottery draw and Thunderball numbers for Wednesday January 27 - live breaking updates and results below
  
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• North East parents and teachers react after Boris Johnson delays school return

  27-01-2021 19:42 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The PM announced on Wednesday that schools would not fully reopen until March at the earliest
  
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• Vandal's solicitor brands him 'winner of the most stupid offence of the week'

  27-01-2021 19:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Paul Cockburn smashed a window at a police station after arguing with his mother - then rang police to confess
  
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• Motor neurone disease battler Mark Taylor recovers from Covid

  27-01-2021 19:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The former football hero, from Whitley Bay, contracted the potentially deadly virus despite shielding since start of pandemic
  
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• 'Mad' elections 'could attract Covid conspiracy candidates'

  27-01-2021 19:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Councillors have raised a series of major worries about the prospect of local elections across the North East going ahead in May despite the ongoing pandemic crisis
  
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• Duke's plans to open £7.9m hotel in Alnwick will 'benefit town'

  27-01-2021 19:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Northumberland Estates has been given the go-ahead to develop the hotel on the site of the former Duchess High School on Bailiffgate
  
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• People trying to leave the UK will need to declare they have valid reason

  27-01-2021 17:19 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Priti Patel announced the crackdown today as she hit out at the minority of Brits who are continuing to go on holiday during lockdown
  
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• Work begins on £1.4m Durham University workspace

  27-01-2021 17:05 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Orbit will be based within one of the University’s research institutes at the North East Technology Park
  
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• Sunderland MP alerts Boris Johnson to cruel 'NHS' scammers

  27-01-2021 17:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Sunderland Central MP Julie Elliott highlighted the problem of online fraud
  
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• Retired newsagent's bid to raise £10,000 for NHS heroes

  27-01-2021 17:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Jagesh Chadda is asking people to make a small donation to the NHS after discovering that the cost of each Oxford/AstraZeneca jab less than what you might spend on a cup of coffee
  
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• Great North Run organisers still planning to go ahead in September

  27-01-2021 17:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Organisers have confirmed that the event is still scheduled to take place on September 12, but that they are 'closely monitoring” the situation'
  
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• Baby-faced brute beat and raped teenager in shocking park attack

  27-01-2021 17:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Kenneth Gent, of Swalwell, was just 16 when he subjected a young woman to a terrifying ordeal
  
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• Baby-faced brute beat and raped teenager in Gateshead park attack - ChronicleLive

  27-01-2021 17:00
  
  Baby-faced brute beat and raped teenager in Gateshead park attack  ChronicleLive
  
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• 100,000 Covid death toll 'sobering reminder' for North East

  27-01-2021 16:22 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The death toll of 100,162 is the highest in Europe and almost 5,000 of those deaths have come in the North East
  
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• 100,00 Covid death toll 'sobering reminder' for North East

  27-01-2021 16:22 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The death toll of 100,162 is the highest in Europe and almost 5,000 of those deaths have come in the North East
  
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• Cherry trees and defibrillator targeted by vandals in County Durham park

  27-01-2021 15:56 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Officers are asking for anyone with information that may lead to identifying the vandals to get in touch
  
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• How 100,000 deaths were recorded, are they 'with Covid-19 or from 'Covid-19'?

  27-01-2021 15:40 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A leading statistician says it's reasonable to state that 100,000 people have died directly from Covid-19 - and the real figure could be even higher
  
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• Labour calls for teachers to be vaccinated faster

  27-01-2021 15:08 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Labour wants key workers, and particularly school staff, to be vaccinated faster - but it would mean some other people over 50 have to wait longer
  
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• Schools won't begin reopening until at least March 8

  27-01-2021 15:04 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister said it wasn't possible to reopen schools immediately after the February half term
  
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• Vandal fined after smashing police station door

  27-01-2021 14:50 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Police received a call from 36-year-old Paul Corburn who said he had carried out the damage and challenged them to “come and get is”
  
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• Hundreds of new homes could be coming to Gateshead if housing proposals are approved - Chronicle Live

  27-01-2021 14:17
  
  Hundreds of new homes could be coming to Gateshead if housing proposals are approved  Chronicle Live
  
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• Hundreds of new homes could be coming to Gateshead

  27-01-2021 14:17 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  An empty building will be pulled down to make way for the homes
  
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• Hour by hour forecast as yellow weather warning predicts snow for Thursday

  27-01-2021 13:55 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The warning is set to last from the early hours of Thursday right through to the afternoon
  
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• Police appeal after stranger grabs woman's bottom at a bus stop

  27-01-2021 13:51 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The incident took place on Prince Edward Road, in South Shields, on the same side of the road as the Rose & Crown pub - now officers are urging any witnesses to come forward
  
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• The River Tyne at Wallsend and Hebburn in the 1960s - how does it look today?

  27-01-2021 13:31 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Swan Hunter in Wallsend and Hawthorn Leslie in Hebburn are two famous shipyards both consigned to history - the view here is very different five and a half decades on
  
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• The last coal to leave Newcastle will be shipped next month

  27-01-2021 13:07 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Hargreaves Services is making its last shipment of coal next month
  
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• Café urges people 'to be kind' after staff sworn at and verbally abused

  27-01-2021 13:04 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Staff at Love Lily Tearoom have faced a barrage of verbal abuse over lockdown from some customers
  
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• Newcastle man fell down crevasse in French Alps after losing friend in forest

  27-01-2021 13:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Corey Watson, from Westerhope, had been working near the famous ski resort of Meribel when he was reported missing on January 23 last year
  
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• Council tax bills in South Tyneside set to rise by almost 4%

  27-01-2021 13:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The council says it has been able to balance this year’s budget despite the cost of the pandemic response and a shortfall in central Government funding
  
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• Police force says they are ready to act and fines are now a promise

  27-01-2021 12:59 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  'Regulation has been in place long enough and we are now at the enforcement stage'
  
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• Benefits change comes into force today and triggers warning for disabled people

  27-01-2021 12:59 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A two-year ban on severely disabled benefit claimants being moved to Universal Credit has been lifted from Wednesday - here is how it could affect people
  
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• 15 'mistakes' and U-turns made in handling coronavirus pandemic

  27-01-2021 11:58 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister says the Government has done 'everything' they could have done to tackle the crisis as the UK's death toll passed 100,000
  
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• CEO of a multi-billion company who grew up on a Sunderland council estate

  27-01-2021 11:27 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Chris Ashton went on to become the new CEO of Worley, a global company headquartered in Australia
  
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• Boris Johnson begins work on 'roadmap' out of lockdown as cases fall

  27-01-2021 10:20 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister made the announcement as he claimed he had done “everything we could” to prevent 100,000 deaths
  
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• Met Office issues weather warning with more snow to hit North East

  27-01-2021 09:52 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  "Heavy snowfall may occur across the hills in this region and bring significant disruption to travel."
  
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• Draeger opens PPE manufacturing facility in Gateshead - Med-Tech Innovation

  27-01-2021 09:21
  
  Draeger opens PPE manufacturing facility in Gateshead  Med-Tech Innovation
  
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• Union demands Metro bailout and warns of 'spiral of decline'

  27-01-2021 09:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The RMT union has joined calls for transport secretary Grant Shapps to pledge a long-term bailout for the struggling rail network
  
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• Tent full of cannabis plants found in mum's home

  27-01-2021 09:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Kerry Waggot had been looking after the drugs in exchange for money but was arrested after police raided her property
  
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• UK could see another 50,000 Covid-19 deaths, SAGE scientist warns

  27-01-2021 08:49 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The stark warning has come as it was reported that there were now more than 100,000 recorded deaths from coronavirus
  
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• Yorkshire Ripper's secret funeral cost the taxpayer thousands

  27-01-2021 07:51 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Peter Sutcliffe died in the University Hospital North Durham in November and the Prisons Service has confirmed thousands of pounds of public money was used to give him a funeral in secret
  
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• Holocaust survivor's son shares father's story of escaping on Kindertransport

  27-01-2021 07:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Holocaust Memorial Day remembers the six million innocent Jews who were tragically murdered
  
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• Extraordinary Northumberland council meeting demanded over bombshell report

  27-01-2021 07:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Labour and Independent councillors join forces to demand the meeting within days following story concerning Chief Executive
  
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