More guidance on which industries can apply for their workers not to isolate following contact with Covid-19 on Thursday

Taylor Rowland appeared before South Tyneside Magistrates' Court charged with five charges of raping a woman aged 16 or over, and three of raping a female aged under 16

Schofe, who hosts Dancing On Ice and This Morning on the channel, has seen his show Five Gold Rings cancelled

New funding will allow academics to work on new methods for detecting Covid-19 variants of concern

Lorraine Pattie, who has four past convictions for breaching a restraining order, also sent a package containing pills to the victim's new partner

It comes after M&S also warned of potential staff shortages with an increase in people being pinged by the track and trace app

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning across much of England and Wales on Saturday and Sunday

Sam York, who has a history of attacking the victim, had been banned from contacting her but flouted the court order for the second time

A judge told Shaun Dixon that he 'didn't buy' his excuse for having four cannisters of the noxious substance in his Blaydon home

11 primary schools in the city could see cars banned outside their gates at peak times in an effort to reduce pollution and make streets safer for children

Sarah Bradshaw, 23, from Newcastle, suffered a series of strokes as she battled sepsis

The authority has received five objections to the scheme

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It's Boris Johnson's flagship policy, but MPs say it's still unclear what levelling up really means

The future king appears somewhere very close to his great-grandfather's heart

Formal identification has not yet taken place after the body was found on Wednesday afternoon

The National Lottery Lotto draw and Thunderball numbers for Wednesday, June 21 - full results and the winning ticket here

Daniel Harrison died earlier this month and an investigation is currently under way

The rise comes after the Government originally offered NHS staff only 1%

Martin Harper brandished an axe and hammer towards a neighbour who made so much noise he took to sleeping in a bus stop in Gateshead

Opponents of the scheme say they are eager to work with the council to stop it being used as an immigration detention centre

Dawn Mulherron showed a 'lack of competence' with repeated mistakes at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead, a disciplinary panel has found

Fears the scrapping of coronavirus restrictions may cause a spike in a abuse directed at NHS workers has prompted bosses to promise 'zero tolerance' of any issues

Temperatures have soared in Britain - and come cats may be suffering in silence

The RNLI Sandhaven team was monitoring the beach when the emergencies happened