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REVELLERS at a music festival were left frustrated after being evacuated from the site due to concerns over lightning. Those attending Party in the Park in Morpeth were told to leave the event on Sunday evening due to a thunderstorm. They...
A SON allegedly bit his mother’s nose for “several minutes” whilst growling in her face. Robert Mckegney is accused of pinning his mum against a board, which was covering up a smashed window at her home, before assaulting her. A court heard...
A double decker bus and DJ decks are just some of the bespoke gravestones produced by a family firm on Tyneside. Joe Richmond, 38, runs Joseph Richmond & Sons Memorials with his mother Pauline, 74, and his brother Simon, 52. The business,...
A POLICE officer has been sacked after throwing punches at a grandad and pushing his wife in the face. PC Jonathan Pattison, of Northumbria Police, attended the scene of a collision between his wife and another driver in Birtley,...
A DAD delivered his own children in two surprise home births four years apart. Adele Crisp, 34, woke up experiencing severe cramps on August 14 while she was 36 weeks and two days’ pregnant with her second child. She was advised by the...
THE Sex Pistols are set to play in Newcastle for the first time, with new tour dates being announced for December. It has been a 50-year wait for local fans of the group, who kickstarted the punk movement in the UK, after a scheduled show was...