A five-storey student accommodation block was evacuated after a flat set ablaze. Emergency services were called to The Glassworks student accommodation on Coquet Street, in Newcastle, on Sunday ...

Plans to build a house in a Darlington village have been submitted to the council. The proposal, submitted by Jonathan Saddington of Saddington Taylor Planning on behalf of Dr A and Mrs C Marshall, ...

A violent Middlesbrough bully who was caught on camera repeatedly punching his wife after he chased her out of the house while he was naked has ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has been elected as Germany’s chancellor — hours after he failed to win the first round in parliament in a historic defeat. Mr Merz, 69, who succeeds Olaf Scholz, ...