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

LNER says the timetable will mean quicker journeys, but opponents say smaller stations will miss out.

One person is taken to hospital and police are asking drivers to find alternative routes.

William Wake, a medical orderly on D-Day, was "courteous and grateful to the end", his family say.

Organisers say there is a "lack of short-term care options" for injured seals in Northumberland.

The transport secretary decides "not to progress with unfunded and unaffordable road schemes".

Kayleigh Avery, from Sunderland, says she was "lucky" to get a bed at a unit in the North East.

Waiting lists in the North East and North Cumbria are at their highest in five years, data shows.