Two men have been jailed for rioting in a city centre during widespread disorder. Sunderland saw a night of violence on 2 ...

A sex predator is finally behind bars after he raped and abused a child. Paul Logan has been jailed for over 11 years. His ...

A man has been jailed after sexually assaulting a teenager as she slept. Stephen Scott abused the victim in South Tyneside.

Leah Casson, 18, died in the fire at a property on Vicarage Street, in North Shields, in the early hours of the morning on 16 ...

Kristopher Follos, of Morpeth, was arrested at his home where officers discovered three more improvised explosive devices ...

Kristopher Follos, 45, was handed an eight-year prison term for using home-made bombs – improvised explosive devices (IEDs) – ...

A sex attacker who left a teenager "absolutely broken" when he assaulted her while she was asleep at a house party has been ...

THIS is the moment a bumbling crook attempted to blow up a cash machine in a failed heist. Kristopher Follos, 45, was caught ...

The mother and brother of a teen who died in a house fire have appeared in court charged with manslaughter and abstracting ...

A paedophile is now paying for his predatory activities with a schoolgirl more than a decade ago, having been jailed after his conviction for ...

A victim has described the lifelong effects of the sexual abuse she suffered – as the man who raped her is jailed for almost ...

As autumn turned to winter and snow fell, The Northern Echo covered a number of stories from S&DR200 to Maya's Law.