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We’re no longer updating this account, but you can find our stories and the latest news on the @BBCNEandCumbria feed. See you there!
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From 23 December, we’re no longer updating this account, but you can see Look North weeknights at 18:30 on BBC One and you’ll find our stories and the latest news on the @BBCNEandCumbria feed. See you there!
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From 23 December, we’re no longer updating this account, but you can see Look North weeknights at 18:30 on BBC One and you’ll find our stories and the latest news on the @BBCNEandCumbria feed. See you there!
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Not a good start - thanks to those who spotted my mistake - the new place to go to find our stories and the latest news should of course be the @BBCNEandCumbria feed.
From 23 December, we’re no longer updating this account, but you can see Look North weeknights at 18:30 on BBC One and you’ll find our stories and the latest news on the @BBNEandCumbria feed. See you there!
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From 23 December, we’re no longer updating this account, but you can see Look North weeknights at 18:30 on BBC One and you’ll find our stories and the latest news on the @BBNEandCumbria feed. See you there!
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The co-founder and chairman of the company aiming to build the UK's first electric car battery "gigaplant" has quit after it emerged he was convicted for tax fraud in Sweden bbc.in/3qWf6Iu

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Sunderland boss Lee Johnson feels "let down" by the English Football League for not providing "clarity" on whether Tuesday's game with Wimbledon should go ahead following a Covid-19 outbreak bbc.in/2WhzrKg

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Patients at a surgery in Maryport will have to wait longer for coronavirus vaccinations after almost 1,000 doses failed to arrive bbc.in/3897I3Z
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We can't wait for Cherry Valentine to spill the tea 💃 The Darlington drag queen is one of the contestants on series two of RuPaul's Drag Race UK bbc.in/3r3Gu7q 👏

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A depleted Sunderland drew against Wimbledon after Covid-19 caused problems at the Stadium of Light bbc.in/3r3nZ2Y

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A GP and medical director whose father died with coronavirus says the vaccine roll-out feels "bittersweet" because it has come too late for many people bbc.in/3gVc2rI

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Surgeon Barney Green describes himself as a plumber, fixing the pipes that carry blood around the human body bbc.in/37skYSl

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Clinical trials have started for a coronavirus vaccine to be initially tested on 150 volunteers at sites in Newcastle, Birmingham, Bristol and Southampton bbc.in/37lwzCj
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Hexham's East Woodburn Bridge and the Lake District's Graythwaite Hall gardens feature for the North East and Cumbria bbc.in/3nszOxI

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“It is a bittersweet moment” Says the doctor in charge of the vaccine rollout in Sunderland.. “My father passed away with Covid, and I wish he was alive to be offered the vaccine”
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North West Durham MP Richard Holden's proposals to outlaw "medieval" virginity testing have passed their first parliamentary stage bbc.in/2WhPl7p

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A man who beat his girlfriend's uncle to death and took a "trophy photograph" has been jailed bbc.in/2IQgdZ4

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Newcastle boss Steve Bruce said two of his players are "not well at all" after contracting coronavirus bbc.in/3aadaWZ

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Filming the community rollout of the #CovidVaccine in Sunderland today
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A speeding driver who killed a 13-year-old girl and seriously injured her sister and mother has been jailed for four-and-a-half years bbc.in/3qWibZ3
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