HIGHLIGHTS FROM The Chronicle

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