Ruby-Leigh Paxton is eight - and she was diagnosed with a shocking rare health condition just moments after she was born ...

South Tyneside has the worst rate of preventable deaths across the seven North East council areas, report finds. According to ...

The RSPB have been accused of disturbing protected birds in an SSSI on an island off the Northumberland Coast by landing a ...

Spennymoor RAF veteran and great-grandfather George Fawcett, 86, died after "serious failings" in NHS care when he had a ...

Labour councillor Milo Barnett has stepped down from his South Jesmond seat, in what comes as another blow to a party that ...

A man has been jailed after offering to pay the victim in his son's case hundreds of pounds to retract her statement to ...

A man who tried to escape from police officers shutdown a ward at Newcastle's RVI for almost an hour. Joe Mills, 27, was on ...

Newcastle United are not set for any June 30 fireworks - unlike last summer's difficult final day of the month at St James' ...

Former Newcastle, Nottingham Forest and Liverpool midfielder Jonjo Shelvey is due to link up with Hull City's squad this week ...

Candour Productions is working with the National Trust, Northumbria Police and the Northumberland National Park Authority ...

Two council areas have been identified as having the worst life expectancy rates for men and women respectively ...

One of the North East's most photographed churches continues to search for a vicar exactly one year after the previous ...