Our live coverage across the daypublished at 18:01 Greenwich Mean Time 15 February 2016
Updates for the North East have now finished for the day - thank you for joining us.
It has been a very say day wiih the death of our friend and colleague Ali Brownlee. Tonight Middlesbrough fans are planning to pay their respects to him as Middlebrough take on Leeds United - you can follow the updates here.
We'll be back with more news, sport, weather and travel updates from 08:00 tomorrow - including the Boro fans' tributes to Ali - and hope you can join us then.