Eight neighbours in a block of flats are celebrating together after sharing a £1 million prize on People’s Postcode Lottery.

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He went on to work at Stargate Colliery, in Ryton-on-Tyne, County Durham ... received the Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977. He died at Blaydon, County Durham, on 25 October, 1987.

A GEORGE Cross awarded to a mineworker for his gallantry in rescuing a trapper miner is set to be sold for thousands of pounds.

New food hygiene ratings have been awarded to two of Gateshead’s takeaways, the Food Standards Agency’s website shows. Mama Rosa, at Mannering House, Smailes Lane, Rowlands Gill, Tyne And Wear ...

Slimming World members from Tyne Valley have raised more than £8,000 for Cancer ... The weight loss groups in Hexham, Haltwhistle, Corbridge, Prudhoe, and Blaydon collected a total of 324 bags. "When ...

A George Cross medal awarded to a mineworker who rescued a trapped worker at a Doncaster pit in 1940 is set to fetch £10,000 ...

Following demobilisation in 1945, he returned to his coal industry, and was employed on the surface as a banksman at Stargate Colliery, Ryton-on-Tyne ... He died at Blaydon, County Durham ...