Gateshead news

• Weather maps show UK set for torrential rain over bank holiday - all affected areas

  20-05-2025 14:54 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  After a particularly dry May, all the rain is coming at once this weekend
  
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• AI and cataract surgery helps Durham pensioner get back to carving beautiful wooden animals

  20-05-2025 14:50 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Len Browne had been forced to put down his chisel and stop making beautiful wood carvings
  
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• Car park heart checks for hundreds in Newcastle were 'a way to reassure yourself that your ticker's working'

  20-05-2025 14:36 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The Your Heart Matters bus was in Newcastle last week - and helped give hundreds piece of mind by checking if they had signs of hidden heart disease
  
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• BMW driver on first date who caused A1 police chase crash in Newcastle has sentencing delayed

  20-05-2025 14:06 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Mazyar Azarbonyad caused a smash on the A1 which wrecked five police cars, hospitalised seven officers, and caused the A1 to be shut for 12 hours
  
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• NUFC boss Eddie Howe set to get Freedom of Newcastle in council vote next week

  20-05-2025 14:01 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  City council leader Karen Kilgour will praise Eddie Howe's achievements since taking charge as Newcastle United manager as "nothing short of extraordinary”
  
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• New UK driving law delayed by Labour until 2027 because Britain 'isn't ready'

  20-05-2025 13:42 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Self-driving vehicles have been delayed by the government until 2027 because the UK currently fails to have the "right conditions" for the revolutionary technology, it has been revealed
  
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• Elderly woman sustains serious injuries after being hit by car in Northumberland

  20-05-2025 13:26 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Northumberland Road in Berwick upon Tweed was closed for four-and-a-half hours after the incident which has seen a pensioner hospitalised
  
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• Greggs making major change across some stores in bid to stop shoplifting

  20-05-2025 13:25 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The popular bakery chain has faced a large uptick in shoplifting in recent years
  
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• North East mayor hawks £14bn of investment opportunities in region

  20-05-2025 13:17 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Kim McGuinness is leading a major delegation at the event in Leeds to encourage companies to invest and create jobs
  
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• 'I'm a biodiversity specialist and these are 10 garden plants bees love'

  20-05-2025 11:29 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  If we didn't have bees and the many other insect species that live in the UK, our ecosystem would soon face serious collapse
  
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• Four UK supermarkets join forces to introduce major checkout change

  20-05-2025 10:42 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The 'Let's make a meal of it' campaign will see shoppers being offered an additional payment option at the store checkout - with all money donated by shoppers at supermarket tills being donated to FareShare
  
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• DWP issues PIP '4 Points' update as nearly 400,000 could lose out on up to £608

  20-05-2025 10:07 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  The new Personal Independence Payments (PIP) system is set to be introduced in November 2026, and now the DWP has issued a new warning about the controversial changes
  
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• E-scooter rider punches car driver in face after row erupts on Gateshead street

  20-05-2025 09:55 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Police have launched a CCTV appeal following an attack which left a man in his 60s requiring hospital treatment
  
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• Tynemouth RNLI appoints first female lifeboat operations manager who can 'inspire next generation'

  20-05-2025 09:46 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Sheridan Bowler, who has been a member of the crew on inshore and all-weather lifeboats, says she is 'up for the challenge'
  
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• Residents urged to keep batteries out of household bins - Gateshead Council

  20-05-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  Residents urged to keep batteries out of household bins  Gateshead Council
  
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• Greggs' 'viral' mac and cheese helps sales increase at Newcastle bakery chain

  20-05-2025 08:40 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  In a trading update, Greggs has highlighted growing sales and an increase in the number of its stores so far this year
  
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• Chester-le-Street mum complaining of headache days after giving birth had suffered stroke

  20-05-2025 06:23 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Kat Dobie, 38, spent six months in hospital after suffering a stroke just days after giving birth to her son Teddy
  
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• Holystone man who suffered rare 'spinal stroke' told to 'find a local leisure centre' for a shower

  20-05-2025 02:28 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Peter Rolls needs to urgently adapt his home after being told there is little support available for when he is discharged from hospital
  
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• RSPCA inspectors smelt 'stench of death' after Northumberland woman left pet rats to starve

  20-05-2025 02:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Charlotte Gower, 33, was in breach of a previous 10-year ban on keeping animals
  
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• Pregnant County Durham fiancée's heartbreak as she organises partner's funeral days after planning dream wedding

  20-05-2025 02:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Richard Furneaux was looking forward to becoming a dad again and marrying his partner of eight years when he passed away suddenly
  
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• Fenham grandparents sold 'bulk deliveries' of cannabis with teenage grandson in 'sophisticated operation'

  20-05-2025 02:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Nicholas Harker, 18, James Charlton, 60, and Deborah Reed, 59, were sentenced for being concerned in the supply of cannabis
  
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