- The QE2 is returning to the River Tyne next week before departing on her final ocean cruise. First launched by the Queen in 1967, the famous vessel will be visiting the Port of Tyne next Wednesday.
- Fourteen people escaped a fire at a three-storey house in Elswick this morning. Fire crews were called to the blaze, which broke out in a ground floor bedroom, in Linwood Avenue in the early hours.
- Law enforcement in South Tyneside could be overseen by a US-style sheriff if controversial Home Office plans go ahead, according to councillors.
A woman from South Shields has died after falling from an apartment balcony while on holiday in Ibiza.
-A web designer turned ufologist from Sunniside has written a book about how Governments are trying to keep secret the existence of aliens.
- A man from Jarrow is due to appear in court today charged with drug smuggling offences after cocaine with a street value of more than £5m was seized off the British coast.
- A man had his car stolen after being threatened at knifepoint outside Temple Park centre car park in South Shields early yesterday morning.
- Two masked men fled empty-handed early this morning after attempting a raid on the petrol station on Derwenthaugh Road in Blaydon.