South Shields

Two men are jailed for running over and killing a dog in South Shields after an argument escalated.

One billion plastic pellets have polluted the north-east England coastline, estimates suggest.

Philip Watson, 60, is jailed for offences in the Northumberland and Sunderland areas.

Plastic nurdles are washing up on beaches more than 30 miles south of the Port of Tyne spill site.

Three people were rescued off the coast of South Shields on Saturday, the coastguard say.

Metro tracks are added to a South Shields memorial to prisoners of war who built the Burma railway.

Reid, who played for Sir Bobby's England team in the mid-1980s, will join runners in September.