Northumbria Police and Mountain Rescue teams are urging people to only travel if necessary.

Police find hundreds of plants in a former pub and arrest two Albanian men on the roof.

The man is in hospital after being hit by a car shortly after midnight.

Police say the driver of a BMW remained at the scene after the man in his 90s was injured.

A man in his 40s is in hospital with serious injuries from the fire in Sunderland, police say.

PC Mark Roberts was driving a police vehicle in Gateshead in 2022 when it collided with a motorbike.

Motorists in Newcastle are being breathalysed to stop them driving after drinking on planes.

The family of Matthew Newton pays tribute to the 28-year-old killed in a car crash last month.