HIGHLIGHTS FROM The Chronicle

  • Hopes for thousands of jobs in Northumberland as major industrial development plans approved
  • Gateshead Flyover demolition update as gap emerges where contractors have broken through
  • Newcastle charity left 'devastated' after over £4,000-worth of tools stolen by thieves
  • Northumberland car sales manager got customers to pay £33,000 into his own bank account
  • Newcastle thug on 'cocaine bender' attacked his own mum saying 'you made me like this'