HIGHLIGHTS FROM The Chronicle

• Home Bargains to open massive Gateshead store with work getting underway READ
• Off-lead dog ban at popular Northumberland beach not supported by parish council READ
• 1,000 new homes to be built in the North East over five years with £150m investment READ
• Northumberland pervert asked schoolboy at bus station if he wanted to have sex with him READ
• Sycamore Gap tree sapling planted on Newcastle's Town Moor as 'symbol of resilience and hope' READ