Leigh Taylor spent weeks in a coma at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary after an explosion at work in Cumbria ...

The potentially record-breaking rat- said to measure approximately 22 inches long from nose to tail - was discovered recently ...

Protesters angry at the housing of people seeking asylum in hotels have been met by counter-demonstrators in Newcastle city ...

It was the epitome of chic. The Waterline bar on Newcastle Quayside was once the place to be, especially on a summer's day when lads and lasses, dressed up to the nines, spilled out into the sunshine ...