The Latest Breaking News from Newcastle

Your lunchtime briefing on all the latest from across the North East

The Master Chef of Great Britain is the new head chef at Leila Lily's in Newcastle

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? was first broadcast during 1973 and 1974 and featured locations filmed around Tyneside - including this one for a well-known episode called The Great Race

Olivia Volley is one of 20 people to be suffering from SIFD worldwide, as her family are raising money so they can stay in Newcastle while the tot undergoes a new stem cell transplant operation

Emergency crews attended the scene on the A1 southbound before Junction 79 near Seaton Burn following reports of a multi-vehicle collision

Gamers can put their skills to the test when a new tournament launches at a Newcastle arcade bar

James Newark, of Gateshead, was caught with high purity and high value drugs at his home and has now been jailed

The agents' website also lists a call for expressions of interest in the sale of the Lambton Park Hotel in Newcastle.

A man has pleaded guilty over his part in a string of break-ins across Port Stephens and Newcastle.

It's hard to believe: there is not a Newcastle beer on the current GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beers list. But that could all change this year. Jaz Wearin, founder of Modus Operandi Brewing, is on a mission to get the brewer's Cerveza beer voted on to the annual 2022 GABS…

WAS it balmy or barmy? Adam Newling's Cambridge Hotel show last Friday for his latest single Barmy, was a whole lot of both. This was one of those old-fashioned rock shows where it's so humid there's actual condensation forming on the walls and post-show your damp with sweat, and it's…