GORDON Brown will snub the North East as he goes on a nationwide tour to see what help the Government can offer regions hit by the economic downturn.

Top Royal Navy officers will face a public inquiry in Wearside over a nuclear submarine accident.

Road safety campaigners are angry that a Newcastle player is allowed to drive after he was caught at 106mph.

Planning permission is granted for a£22m facility to replace ageing buildings at a Teesside College.

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A MAN has been charged with murder after a body was found at a Tyneside guesthouse, police said.

TOON ace Obafemi Martins landed in trouble with the law after doing 106mph in a 70mph zone.

A teenager accused of causing the death of a boy by dangerous driving was expected to appear at Teesside Crown Court today.

Hollywood rolled into Redcar today as filming got under way on a major movie blockbuster.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and Hamas studied a proposal by Egypt for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and Hamas studied a proposal by Egypt for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and Hamas studied a proposal by Egypt for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and Hamas studied a proposal by Egypt for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and Hamas studied a proposal by Egypt for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and Hamas studied a proposal by Egypt for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and Hamas studied a proposal by Egypt for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and Hamas studied a proposal by Egypt for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school.

Israel offers to open a humanitarian corridor into Gaza as the UN Security Council meets on the conflict.

The cold snap has triggered pay-outs to millions of eligible people, including Londoners for the first time in a decade.

Israel is under mounting international pressure to halt its offensive in Gaza after scores of Palestinians were killed in buildings sheltering civilians.

A number of children were among those who died in an Israeli strike that killed at least 40 people who had taken refuge inside a UN school in the Gaza Strip medics say.

Police and firefighters are reminding people of the dangers of swimming in rivers after a woman saved a teenager from drowning in Prudhoe.

PRUDHOE Traders? Association is calling for a public inquiry over the handling of the Duke of Northumberland?s plans to redevelop the town centre.