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Respected Northumberland welding inspector headbutted and punched his blind girlfriend

Drunk Paul Hunter also held up a TV remote and said 'I could cave your head in with this' during the assault in their home

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Man accused of stealing phone from woman's coat pocket inside popular Byker pub

Ian Irwin was allegedly caught on CCTV helping himself to the mobile last month

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Gateshead carer receives £150 for delay in assessment and start of housework support

Gateshead Council was found to be at fault for delaying a carer's support

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Newcastle burglar crept into sleeping man's bedroom then told him 'I'm off'

Steven Riach, of Heaton, left the victim feeling very unnerved after he woke to find him in his home in the dead of night

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Heart attack survivor who was told he 'may never run again' defies odds to take on Blaydon Race

Mike Atkinson will be running for the Red Sky Foundation on what would have been his dad's 100th birthday

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Plans lodged to convert North Shields office into block of flats

A former accountancy firm building could be given a lease of life as a block of flats

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Blyth teen sheds 17st after college bullies said it was his own fault clothes didn't fit him

Kaden Pleban, from Blyth, said he wanted to prove the bullies wrong and show them he could lose weight

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Drink-driver crashed into railings on Byker road after socialising in pub

Neil Searle, who earns £4,000 a month working in the education sector, was more than two times over the limit

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Girl, 4, diagnosed with painful lifelong condition after waking up with pain in her knee

Charlotte and Paddy Cumiskey will take on an Ultra Challenge to raise awareness of juvenile arthritis

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Hundreds gather for packed out service at Durham Cathedral as new bishop is installed

Bishop Rick, who previously was Archdeacon of Auckland, was announced as the next Bishop of Durham in February

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Keir Starmer backs 'pavement pints' for World Cup to boost England pubs

Keir Starmer has backed pubs being allowed to serve 'pavement pints' during the World Cup

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Funeral notices in the Chronicle this week including tributes to an adored soulmate

A selection of tributes to people who have passed away around the North East

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Northumberland couple 'left numb' after wife's slurring was first sign of Motor Neurone Disease

Natalie Lynn, 64, was diagnosed with MND in 2024 but she and husband David still feel luckier than most

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NHS nurse struck off register after £19,500 fraud for shifts she did not work

Faith Chareka, an emergency department nurse at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey, has been struck off the nursing register after being convicted of fraud by abuse of position for adding 50 shifts she did not work to her roster

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HMS Ark Royal - another great ship that was built at Swan Hunter on the River Tyne

Forty‐five years ago, in June 1981, the mighty aircraft carrier was launched at the Wallsend yard

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Banned Newcastle driver on licence from prison got behind wheel while high on cocaine

Peter Rodden was disqualified from driving for four years in 2021 and was required to sit an extended test before he got his licence back, which he never did

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Pride volunteers subjected to 'disgraceful' abuse after banners torn down in Tyneside street

Banners promoting Hebburn Pride have been left hanging from railings after being torn down less than 24 hours after being put up

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Two teenage boys fighting for life after horror crash with six people taken to hospital

Two air ambulances landed at the scene of the serious two-vehicle collision between Saltburn and Skelton with the road being shut for hours

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DWP rule change means State Pensioners with these birthdays will lose £3,136

As the State Pension age is rising to 67, people turning 66 in the transitionary period face a longer wait before they are eligible to claim

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£100 bonus for over four million people banking with Nationwide from Wednesday

Eligible members will get their £100 payment between June 10 and 30 this year - here's everything you need to know