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Newcastle court convicts 15-year-old who armed himself before stabbing strangerA 15-year-old boy who went out with a knife “hoping” to stab someone has been found guilty of murdering another schoolboy in Gateshead.A jury at Newcastle crown court on Mon…
Exclusive: Several MPs who had shock wins in 2019 will be able to run in other seats after being designated ‘displaced’UK politics live – latest updatesConservative MPs with wafer-thin margins who pulled off shock victories in the 2019 election will be…
More than 50 early years staff without work after Merseyside service closed days after one-day strikeA group of early years workers who lost their jobs without warning days after a one-day strike have called on others in the sector to “stand up and be …
Once-extinct, bitterns make booming ‘foghorn’ noise to attract mates with 228 calling males counted in last breeding periodThe UK’s loudest bird has had a bumper breeding year after previously being driven to extinction in the country.Bitterns became l…
In city where they make up 14.8% of the population, Black people occupy just 4.6% of top public positions, analysis finds‘You get frustrated’: three Black leaders on Manchester’s diversity problemJust 4.6% of people in prominent public positions in Man…
Theatres such as now-closed Oldham Coliseum vital for northern working-class people, says actorChristopher Eccleston has said it would be impossible for him to become an actor in today’s world, in an impassioned interview after the closure of Oldham’s …
Venue that helped launch careers of many actors forced to close after losing £1.8m Arts Council England grantOne of Britain’s oldest theatres, the Oldham Coliseum, will close “on its own terms” on Friday night, its artistic director has said, with a st…
Jodey Whiting of Stockton-on-Tees died in 2017 about two weeks after her disability benefit was stopped The mother of Jodey Whiting, a housebound disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were cut, has won an appeal for a fresh inquest.Whiti…
The 138-year-old theatre helped launch careers of many northern English actorsArts bodies have decried the “devastating” news that one of Britain’s oldest theatres, the Oldham Coliseum, will close in two weeks after being stripped of its government fun…
Psychiatrist speculated she had PTSD from childhood trauma but trial offered few other cluesEleanor Williams jailed for eight and a half years after rape and trafficking liesIt took a jury just three and a half hours to find Eleanor Williams unanimousl…