A Sunderland KFC has won a new licence allowing it to open until midnight seven-days-a-week, despite objections being lodged over noise, crime and disorder

Kudirat Yusuff, who admitted having no insurance or licence, was also allegedly unfit to drive because of consuming alcohol

Hayley Parkin, who lives with her two teenaged daughters, has described the conditions they are in as 'horrific'

South Tyneside Council's planning department has approved plans to transform the former Wilko store at Market Place, South Shields, bringing the building back into use and creating jobs in the town centre

Councillors will vote on plans to transform the Water's Edge pub site at Trow Lea, South Shields, into three dwellings plus a new-build detached bungalow

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has placed conditions on St Mary's Care Home in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, after a serious incident where a resident left the home unsupervised overnight, with the facility now barred from admitting people with a lear...

Household finances expert Martin Lewis is warning people to keep track of their subscription renewal dates after a listener to his BBC podcast was charged £229 — nearly three times the original £80 price — when their DNA family tracing website ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been granted new powers to directly obtain information from banks and building societies to carry out DWP bank account checks on Pension Credit claimants, with penalties issued for benefit fraud or incor...

Cooking bacon in a frying pan can be a messy business, but a Scottish butcher has shared a simple microwave bacon hack that delivers perfectly crispy rashers in under five minutes, with no greasy pans to wash up afterwards

He said there is a setting that you should definitely get checked on your boiler

Noah Burge was attacked on a Gateshead river bank almost three years ago and feels the justice system has failed them

Roads Minister Justin Madders said "the action we're taking is delivering results"

Littlewoods on the town’s High Street was a retail favourite between 1939 and 2005

Last year saw council proposals for the biggest shake-up in local education in decades.

Darren Danks and his accomplices were identified from CCTV and later arrested

Northumbria's Police and Crime Commissioner Susan Dungworth on why tackling this menace is a key priority after tragedies

Vile criminals targeted the elderly and vulnerable in lucrative 'courier fraud' operation

The detached property in Chathill, near Bamburgh, has nine bedrooms and five bathrooms

Another couple have left Strictly Come Dancing after Saturday night's Icons week special delighted fans

Organisers, including the CGT labour union and students’ organisations, said about 800,000 demonstrators took to the streets

BBC comedian Paul Whitehouse was the victim of a mugging attempt in Islington, London, while fetching medicine for his wife, Dr Mine Conkbayir, who had shared publicly that she had had a "bad reaction" to some treatment

Villa midfielder Johan Manzambi, who almost joined the Magpies in the summer, scored the only goal of the game

Strictly Come Dancing presenter Josh Widdicombe has come under fire from some fans after stumbling over his words within seconds of Icons Week starting on Saturday night.

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