The victims, aged 13 to16 at the time of the offences (2014 - 2019) were sometimes plied with alcohol or cocaine before they ...

Codrin Dura, 26, Leonard Paun, 23, Bogdan Gugiuman, 44, Klaudio Aleksiu, 28 and Stefan Ciuraru, 22 were found guilty of ...

Newcastle Crown Court heard the victims, all girls aged between 13 and 15, were exploited in Gateshead by a gang of Romanian ...

Iuliana Toma, 35, woke up on the morning of Wednesday, December 12 to her car window smashed after the incident on Denton View in Blaydon ...

The network of men targeted schoolgirls in Saltwell Park in Gateshead and police fear there could be more North East victims ...

Five predators have been jailed after nearly 40 years of 'horrific' rape and sexual abuse on vulnerable girls.

Northumbria Police detective reveals how network of men who targeted girls in Gateshead's Saltwell Park were snared and ...

Two homes have been closed off and boarded up due to suspected links to drugs and violence. Police said that crimes, which ...

A major road bridge was closed in both directions due to an incident on the quayside, causing travel chaos this morning. The ...

Donors remembered the 14-year-old’s ‘beautiful smile’ and sent sympathies to his family. Floral tributes left by the gates of Fairfield Industrial Park in the Bill Quay area of Gateshead where a body ...

The death of a man in the North East could be linked to a dangerous drugs batch, police have warned. Northumbria Police have launched an investigation into the death of a man in his 40s, who was found ...