Gateshead news

• Mum and two children caught in rip current rescued off North Tyneside coast

  19-08-2024 21:31 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A mum and two children caught in a rip current and a woman suffering from a suspected heart attack each received vital support from Tynemouth Lifeguards at Longsands Beach
  
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• Two arrested after police pursuit ends outside Newcastle petrol station

  19-08-2024 21:10 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The car was brought to a stop outside the entrance to Sainsbury's petrol station in Heaton
  
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• Ten-man Cards fall to defeat at home to Gateshead - Woking News and Mail

  19-08-2024 21:01 via news.google.com
  Ten-man Cards fall to defeat at home to Gateshead  Woking News and Mail
  
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• Gateshead's Metrocentre to get £6m investment - BBC.com

  19-08-2024 20:56 via news.google.com
  Gateshead's Metrocentre to get £6m investment  BBC.com
  
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• Morrisons and Asda announce major change to self-checkout tills

  19-08-2024 20:33 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The supermarket giants are going to get more staff back behind the tills
  
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• Daughter of millionaire Mike Lynch missing after Sicily storm sinks Bayesian yacht

  19-08-2024 20:12 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Software tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter are both missing after the luxury yacht sank in Italy, authorities say
  
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• Set For Life results LIVE: Winning National Lottery numbers for Monday, August 19

  19-08-2024 20:04 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  We will be bringing live breaking updates and results from the National Lottery's Set For Life draw on Monday, August 19.
  
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• North East leaders back review to 'stamp out' misogyny and treat it as extremism

  19-08-2024 19:31 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The North East Mayor and the region's Police and Crime Commissioner have backed government plans to review its counter-extremism strategy to include misogyny
  
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• How new Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner wants to make people feel safe as well as be safe

  19-08-2024 19:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  After 100 days in office Susan Dungworth reveals her vision for safer communities in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland
  
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• Houghton-le-Spring pervert jailed for trying to target children online

  19-08-2024 18:49 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Christopher Harrison, of Fencehouses, thought he was having sexual chats with schoolgirls but he was talking to police officers running decoy profiles
  
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• New Berwick hospital reaches major construction milestone

  19-08-2024 18:22 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The new Berwick Community Hospital is set to open next year
  
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• Former Gateshead bank could be converted into restaurant and HMO lodge - Chronicle Live

  19-08-2024 17:34 via news.google.com
  Former Gateshead bank could be converted into restaurant and HMO lodge  Chronicle Live
  
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• Former Gateshead bank could be converted into restaurant and HMO lodge

  19-08-2024 17:34 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A vacant bank in Birtley town centre could become a new eatery and home of multiple occupancy, pending a council decision.
  
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• Disused Newcastle restaurant to be part-demolished as car dealer to take over former Japanese buffet

  19-08-2024 17:33 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The former Tenji buffet and Levant Toon Mediterranean restaurant, part of the historic Fenham Barracks site on Barrack Road, has lain empty for several years
  
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• Inspectors find illegal drugs trade 'thriving' at overcrowded HMP Durham

  19-08-2024 17:03 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A damning prison inspection report also found prisoners have to choose between showers, medication and fresh air
  
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• North East families encouraged to consider adoption after 'unprecedented decline in rates'

  19-08-2024 17:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  North East local authorities and charities have supported a national campaign as more children are in need than those coming forward to adopt
  
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• Sicily yacht sinking LIVE: Updates as Mike Lynch and 18-year-old daughter among Brits missing after vessel hit by a tornado

  19-08-2024 16:43 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The vessel capsized in a tornado near the fishing village of Porticello
  
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• Sicily yacht sinking LIVE: Updates as four Brits missing after vessel hit by a tornado

  19-08-2024 16:43 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Four British people are believed to be among seven who remain missing after a luxury yacht sunk off the coast of Palermo, southern Italy. An urgent search is ongoing after the yacht, which was carrying 22 people, capsized after it was hit by a tornado while sailing near Porticello, a fishing village in Sicily. It is reported that tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch is among the four Brits missing following the sinking of the vessel, named the Bajesian.A Canadian and two Americans are also said to be am
  
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• Sicily yacht sinking LIVE: Search continues for Mike Lynch and daughter after vessel hit by tornado

  19-08-2024 16:43 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The vessel capsized in a tornado near the fishing village of Porticello on Monday, with four of the missing passengers believed to be British
  
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• Sinitta reveals she was homeless after pop stardom during frank chat on ITV's Loose Women

  19-08-2024 16:08 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Sinitta was one of the hottest singers in the '80s and early '90s but the star has admitted she was too "embarrassed" to tell anyone when she was homeless and living in her car
  
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• Our predicted FC Halifax Town side for their home game against Gateshead - Halifax Courier

  19-08-2024 16:06 via news.google.com
  Our predicted FC Halifax Town side for their home game against Gateshead  Halifax Courier
  
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• DWP and HMRC August bank holiday benefit payment dates confirmed including Universal Credit and PIP

  19-08-2024 16:01 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  People who receive State Pension, Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Attendance Allowance or Jobseeker’s Allowance will receive their money early
  
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• British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch one of six people still missing after superyacht sinks off coast of Sicily

  19-08-2024 15:40 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Mike Lynch, co-founder of the Autonomy Corporation and founder of Invoke Capital, is understood to have gone missing after the Bayesian sunk following a tornado off the coast of Sicily
  
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• British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch one of six people still missing after superyacht sinks in Sicily

  19-08-2024 15:40 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Mike Lynch, co-founder of the Autonomy Corporation and founder of Invoke Capital, is understood to have gone missing after the Bayesian sunk following a tornado off the coast of Sicily
  
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• Coleen Nolan shares engagement joy with Loose Women co-stars after weekend of celebrations

  19-08-2024 15:10 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Coleen Nolan was on the Loose Women panel on Monday and was discussing a recent engagement party she had attended and hosted alongside her daughter Ciara Fensome
  
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• North East Business Awards shortlist is announced with area winners

  19-08-2024 14:44 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Winners have been announced in 10 categories in Northumberland and Tyneside; Sunderland, County Durham and South Tyneside; and Teesside
  
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• FIXTURE NEWS | Tickets for Gateshead trip on sale - Yeovil Town Football Club

  19-08-2024 14:42 via news.google.com
  
  FIXTURE NEWS | Tickets for Gateshead trip on sale  Yeovil Town Football Club
  
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• Northumbria Police uncover cannabis farm in Felling as three men are arrested

  19-08-2024 13:46 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  At around 2am on Friday, officers arrived in Felling to report of a disturbance and uncovered cannabis plants
  
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• Hooded rioter locked up after throwing brick at police officers during disorder in Sunderland

  19-08-2024 13:34 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Dean Groenewald has been sentenced to two years and two months in prison at Newcastle Crown Court
  
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• Next's 'gorgeous' perfumes smell like luxury brands Chanel, Dior and Mugler

  19-08-2024 13:33 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A range of budget-friendly perfumes from Next have been compared to high-end designer fragrances
  
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• Newcastle's political map set to be redrawn ahead of crucial 'all-out' city council election in 2026

  19-08-2024 13:23 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A new set of ward boundaries in Newcastle will come into force ahead of an 'all-out' city council election in May 2026, where all of the authority's 78 seats will be up for grabs
  
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• New restaurants to be created at Metrocentre in £6m investment plan

  19-08-2024 12:51 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Green Mall entrance is set for a major makeover as a new CGI has revealed
  
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• Greg Olley: Gateshead captain out for season after broken leg surgery - BBC.com

  19-08-2024 12:22 via news.google.com
  Greg Olley: Gateshead captain out for season after broken leg surgery  BBC.com
  
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• Over a million parents could have HMRC Child Benefit stopped if they don't take action by August 31

  19-08-2024 12:07 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Payments will automatically stop unless parents inform HMRC of an important change regarding their teenage child - here are more details
  
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• From a drizzly Gateshead in 2008 to Olympic medals at Paris 2024 - Athletics Weekly

  19-08-2024 11:47 via news.google.com
  From a drizzly Gateshead in 2008 to Olympic medals at Paris 2024  Athletics Weekly
  
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• Figures show 125,000 North East smokers have quit by using vapes instead in the last five years

  19-08-2024 11:44 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Vapes are "invaluable" when it comes to stopping smoking, public health experts said
  
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• Suspected cannabis farm found by police in Gateshead after report of criminal damage

  19-08-2024 11:27 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  At around 11am on Saturday, officers were called to a property on Strathmore Crescent in Byermoor.
  
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• Strong winds and rain to hit North East this week as remnants of Hurricane Ernesto batter UK

  19-08-2024 11:18 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Met Office forecasters say it will be wet and windy in the North East from Wednesday to Friday, with a risk of gales
  
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• UPDATE | Greg Olley - Gateshead FC

  19-08-2024 11:08 via news.google.com
  
  UPDATE | Greg Olley  Gateshead FC
  
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• Jay Slater's mum reveals chilling ransom message from troll after flying to Tenerife

  19-08-2024 11:02 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The family of missing Jay Slater received a number of abusive messages on social media, including one from Snapchat that read: "I'll give you one warning, your son won't be coming back"
  
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• Newcastle woman who lost husband to cancer says his 'blasé attitude' to symptoms cost him his life

  19-08-2024 10:46 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Rachael Smith, 36, looked into her husband’s eyes when he passed away at home on May 28, after battling cancer.
  
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• Rare blue supermoon to light up the sky tonight after eerie red sun phenomenon

  19-08-2024 10:34 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The blue supermoon is the result of two events in the moon's calendar occurring at once - something that will not happen again until 2037
  
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• Emergency plans to avoid prison overcrowding activated in North East as more rioters sentenced

  19-08-2024 10:13 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Operation Early Dawn, a measure that allows defendants to be held in police cells and not summoned to magistrates' court until a space in prison is available, has been activated
  
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• Energy warning for households as average bill set to rise by 9% in October

  19-08-2024 09:54 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Experts say the average energy bill will go up from £1,568 to £1,714 a year after the new price cap comes into effect
  
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• Gateshead: Match Preview - FC Halifax Town

  19-08-2024 09:52 via news.google.com
  
  Gateshead: Match Preview  FC Halifax Town
  
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• ITV The Chase's Bradley Walsh stuns fans as he makes surprise health confession

  19-08-2024 09:38 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Chase's Bradley Walsh left fans stunned as he made a surprise health revelation while hosting the popular ITV quiz show
  
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• Council tax bands could be scrapped in England for homes under £500k as economist says they're 'unfair'

  19-08-2024 09:16 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  A wealth tax on housing could be introduced if Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer becomes Prime Minister after an adviser called for council tax and stamp duty to be axed
  
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• When Hurricane Ernesto is set to hit UK as 83mph winds and storms predicted

  19-08-2024 09:11 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Hurricane Ernesto is currently heading for Bermuda and is due to move into the North Atlantic before impacting the UK weather by midweek
  
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• Drivers warned of delays on busiest August bank holiday weekend 'since 2015'

  19-08-2024 09:03 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Experts have predicted the worst times for congestion across the three-day weekend as millions hit the road for day trips, holidays and festivals
  
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• Jay Slater's mum speaks out after she was sent horrid photo of son by trolls after tragic Tenerife death

  19-08-2024 08:45 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Jay Slater went missing from the Rural Parc de Teno on June 17, after he travelled back to the remote village of Masca with two men following a night out with friends. The 16 year old's body was found last month
  
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