Samantha Jagger
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Sunderland College 'deeply saddened' as three pupils die in River Wear (opens the original)
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A college has described the loss of three students who died when the car they were in ended up in a river as "heartbreaking". Northumbria Police said a black Audi A3 with four people came off the road at Panns Bank near Wearmouth Bridge, Sunderland, and went into the River Wear just before 13:30 BST on Tuesday. The bodies of two teenage boys and a teenage girl were recovered from the water the same day. A boy, 17, who managed to reach safety, has been released from hospital and arrested on suspi
Bomb team detonates artillery shell on Maryport beach (opens the original)
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A bomb disposal team has carried out an explosion of an artillery shell found on a beach. Maryport and Whitehaven Coastguard Rescue teams were called to help the explosive ordnance unit dispose of the shell that was found on Maryport's South Shore on Sunday. A safety cordon was put in place ahead of the detonation of the device in a controlled explosion on Monday. Several shells and other ordnance have been discovered over the past year on Cumbria's west coast, including eight suspected explosiv
Durham councillors who left Reform accused of 'betrayal' (opens the original)
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Three councillors who have resigned from Reform UK have "conned " voters and "betrayed" those who helped get them elected, the party has said. Lyndsey Fox, Nicole Brown and Paul Sexton have had their party affiliation changed to independent on the Durham County Council website, external, although none has given precise reasons for their shift. It leaves Reform with a small majority, with 51 councillors, on an authority the party emphatically won control of when grabbing 65 seats at last year's e
Have I Got News For You Middlesbrough X post over tourism tax 'offensive' (opens the original)
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Politicians have hit out at a TV show's "offensive" social media post which mocked a town over the government's "tourist tax" plans. The BBC's Have I Got News For You (HIGNFY) X account made reference to Middlesbrough after regional mayors were given powers to introduce an overnight levy. "Because who hasn't been to Middlesborough [sic] and thought 'I should have paid more money to be here,'" it read, also misspelling its name. Conservative Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen described it as a "typica
Hunting, hooting and swooping owls as autumn closes in (opens the original)
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Local photographers have shared their images of hooting, hunting and swooping owls, as autumn closes in. Meteorological autumn began on Tuesday, while astronomical autumn starts with the autumn equinox on 23 September. Dan Watson said spotting three short-eared owls hunting on moorland near Middleton-in-Teesdale was "one of his most memorable encounters". While Ashley Johnson, from Middlesbrough, described an "amazing, surreal experience" sharing an evening with a barn owl at Low Barns Nature Re
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