If you’ve tried to buy a house in Saltwell or Bensham over the past few years, you may have been intimidated by protest posters in windows and talk of banks refusing to give mortgages on properties.
Stone the crows. And everybody else too, probably.
Just a fortnight after a cannabis farm was found growing in a second floor flat in Gateshead, police have now discovered an entire house filled with plants and equipment.
Today’s Chronicle reports that a cannibis farm worth tens of thousands of pounds has been found in Gateshead.
- A Bensham sex offender who wanted to open a lingerie shop has been banned by Gateshead Magistrates.
- Northern Rock have announced that they plan to make 1300 staff redundant after their recent troubles; 800 will be compulsory while its hoped other 500 will be voluntary.
- A car is stolen with a baby in the back seat in Ashington.
- One of the country’s most wanted men is on the loose and has been sighted in Gateshead. Twice.