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The latest North East news, sport, weather and events from The Journal, championing the North East since 1832.

 Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
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🧵📢 We’re thrilled to launch @TheJournalNews digital newsletter - an essential daily companion for everyone who lives in, works in, and cares as deeply about the North East as we do.
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We aim to bring you the very best in-depth journalism, regional affairs, business, politics, culture and sport across Tyneside, Wearside, County Durham and Northumberland six days a week, sharing with you the stories, insights and voices that matter most to the #NorthEast region.
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We hope it will deliver the trusted authority, sharp opinion, and sense of pride in place that our readers expect from us, and we'd love to hear what you think. Sign up here: thejournal.co.uk 🙏
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'I'll be honest, I've nicked the steaks' - thief confesses to £200 meat theft when the game was up chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

'I'll be honest, I've nicked the steaks' - thief confesses to £200 meat theft

John Muir stole nearly £500-worth of goods from M&S and Next within 24 hours

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Parents 'heartbroken' by proposal to close special education provisions in Gateshead primary school chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

Parents 'heartbroken' by proposal to close special education provisions

There is a proposal to close the three Additionally Resourced Mainstream School (ARMS) provisions at Bede Primary School

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Inside the Northumberland Coast holiday home near picturesque beach on the market for £595,000 chroniclelive.co.uk/news/pro…

Inside coastal holiday home near picturesque beach on the market for £595,000

The detached property has an asking price of more than half a million pounds

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Newcastle city centre gunman hunt sparked by 'incredibly stupid' man with lighter chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

City centre gunman hunt sparked by 'incredibly stupid' man with lighter

Joe Brown, of Hexham, left a woman terrified when she saw him with looked like a black gun in his pocket near the Centre For Life in Newcastle

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Closure of Gateshead primary school's special educational need provision proposed chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

Closure of primary school's special educational need provision proposed

A public consultation on the future of Bede Community Primary School's additional special education unit has been launched.

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North East tower blocks to get energy efficiency upgrades to make homes warmer and cheaper to heat chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

Tower blocks to get major energy efficiency upgrades to make homes warmer

Plans for a major upgrade of two Sunderland tower blocks have been approved in a move aimed at making residents' homes warmer and cheaper to heat.

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New padel complex approved in Washington as seven-court plan gets green light chroniclelive.co.uk/news/uk-…

New padel complex approved as seven-court plan gets green light

A planned padel complex in Washington, Sunderland has been given the go-ahead for a second time after developers scaled back the scheme from nine courts to seven following the discovery of existing...

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Married North East tattoo artists 'blown away' by response after opening new studio chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on…

Tattoo artist duo 'blown away' by response after opening Sunderland studio

Til Death Tattoo opened on August 8, and specialises in traditional, fine line, Japanese and illustrative tattoos.

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Drunk Bedlington yob threatened to 'smash up the estate' before hour-long rooftop stand-off chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

Drunk yob threatened to 'smash up the estate' before hour-long rooftop stand-off

Jason Wilshaw caused £1,000-worth of damage to roof tiles before making racial remarks to a police officer standing below

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Grieving Newcastle mum fights for answers over daughter's death after discharge from NHS hospital chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

Grieving mum fights for answers over daughter's death after hospital discharge

Sharon Jefferies wants to know what happened in daughter Chloe's final hours - and why she was allowed to leave an NHS mental health hospital.

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Police investigating after taping off large area surrounding pub buildings in Sunderland - key details chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

Police investigating after taping off large area surrounding pub - key details

Officers were seen going in and out of The Terminus pub on Sunday

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Hard work, lots of prep and 'secret' gravy - the story behind North East's best Sunday dinner chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on…

Hard work, lots of prep & secret gravy- story of North East's top Sunday dinner

Over 11,000 of you voted to crown the best Sunday dinner in the North East champion for 2026 and now we speak to the winner

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Gateshead teen kicked police officer in chest after house party descended into chaos chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

Teen kicked police officer in chest after house party descended into chaos

Ava Gribbin lashed out with her foot after she took exception to being lead away from the property by police

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Then and Now: The Gateshead department store that attracted generations of shoppers chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

The department store that attracted generations of shoppers - then and now

Littlewoods on the town’s High Street was a retail favourite between 1939 and 2005

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Midnight KFC licence approved despite public objections over crime and noise chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

Midnight KFC licence approved despite public objections over crime and noise

A Sunderland KFC has won a new licence allowing it to open until midnight seven-days-a-week, despite objections being lodged over noise, crime and disorder

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Proposed overhaul of North Tyneside education a year on - timeline of the biggest shake-up in decades chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

Timeline of the biggest Tyneside education shake-up in decades a year on

Last year saw council proposals for the biggest shake-up in local education in decades.

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Former Tyneside Wilko store to become new gym creating 14 jobs after plans approved chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…

Former Wilko store to become new gym creating 14 jobs after plans approved

South Tyneside Council's planning department has approved plans to transform the former Wilko store at Market Place, South Shields, bringing the building back into use and creating jobs in the town...

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