The Duke of Cambridge said suicide is a problem we "don't talk about" as he opened James' Place in Liverpool.

Blackpool sign goalkeeper Ryan Allsop from Bournemouth and Middlesbrough midfielder Callum Cooke on season-long loans.

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Staying mostly cloudy this evening and through tonight with spells of rain pushing in from the west, which could be heavy and persistent for a while. The rain is expected to fizzle out towards dawn.

Minimum Temperature: 9 to 12C (48 to 54F)

Early cloud and lingering overnight rain will clear away to the south-east through Wednesday morning to leave a drier and brighter afternoon with sunny spells, but also the risk of the odd shower.

Maximum Temperature: 14 to 17C (57 to 63F).

This photo was found rolled up and soaking wet and police are trying to find its owner.

The World War Two photograph is of a Lancaster bomber and its maintenance crew and is believed to be part of the 617 and 627 Dambusters sqaudron.

Northumbria Police say it was handed in at East Boldon Metro station last month.

The photo has been dried out and police want to return it to its owner.

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Local Democracy Reporter

It's been revealed that Newcastle City Council was forced to overspend on its child social care budget for 2017/18 by £5.66m in order to cope with demand.

At the end of March the authority were responsible for 558 children.

Now council chiefs are pledging to improve provision for the growing number of children in care by recruiting more foster families and creating residential homes.

Council leader Nick Forbes said that ongoing budget cuts to social care had put more families under severe strain and that improving support within Newcastle would mean more children will not be forced away from their schools and friends when they enter the care system.

A Teesside family barbers has won some top awards

Ultimate Grooming in Yarm took four titles at the the British Hair and Beauty Awards - including best new business and entrepreneur of the year.

Anthony Andrew (pictured) runs the business and employs his two brothers and his sister Olivia.

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Durham Constabulary recovered the snowboard and tools in Chester-le-Street and suspect they are stolen.

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Labour has tabled a no confidence motion in the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling (pictured).

The motion was led by Middlesbrough MP and Shadow Transport Secretary, Andy McDonald.

It comes after weeks of chaos following the introduction of new timetables on rail services operated by Northern and Govia Thameslink Railway.

Mr McDonald said he regretted having to table the motion, but felt he had "a duty to passengers to do so", he said:

"I'm afraid the breach of faith and trust is so great that the secretary of state's credibility will never recover," he said.

"There comes a point where the publicly accountable politician in charge of the railway should step up and shoulder the blame, it seems to me and I suspect to many rail users that we have more than reached that point."

Mr Grayling hit back, telling MPs that Labour's policy is "confused" and it's acting as a "mouthpiece for a trade union"

Fifty murals are being created for the Great Exhibition to celebrate everything "Northern".

Northumbria Police's very own super pup is undergoing some intense training today.

She's abseiling off buildings as part of victim recovery training.

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The former owner of Sunderland AFC has joined the race to take over over thousands of sites owned by Network Rail, according to reports., external

A survey has found that long-distance passengers travelling from the North East and Yorkshire to London are the most satisfied with the value for money of their ticket.

The line is covered by three train companies including Grand Central who were ranked top in the survey for satisfaction.

The National Rail Passenger Survey found that 95% of their customers were "'satisfied" or "very satisfied'' whereas the average for other companies sat at 81%

Grand Central Rail Tweeted to celebrate their success.

The use of cannabis for medicinal purposes is to be reviewed, which could lead to patients being prescribed drugs made from the plant, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said.

The decision was prompted by recent high-profile cases of children with severe epilepsy being denied access to cannabis oil to control seizures.

Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald whose teenage son died after an epileptic seizure has said he wonders "whether he would be with us now" if cannabis oil had been available to him.

He has called on the government to allow a blanket exemption on the use of cannabis oil to alleviate the illness.

People visiting this summer's Great Exhibition of the North will be able to do a musical sound walk along the River Tyne.

The music in Aeons: a sound journey for Newcastle will be from the Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North, composer and accordion player Martin Green of folk trio Lau and singer Becky Unthank.

A series of sensors along the riverside trigger each sound section

Martin Green said: "The river has been around for 30 million years one way or another and humans have moved in and around it.

"But that has made it slightly arrogant, but quite calm in its outlook to life. So it is quite dismissive of the pace of modern human life."

Gateshead sign former Blackburn midfielder Connor Thompson on a one-year deal.

Middlesbrough Council has been criticised for spending £36,000 on a mid-summer banquet at the newly reopened Town Hall.

It comes after residents of the town saw their council tax bill rise by 4.99% in March.

Councillor Chris Hobson, the Conservative councillor for Marton West Ward says she will boycott the event.

She said: "I have been invited but I won't be going, I will not spend council taxpayers' money on frivolous things and for me it is quite frivolous."

The Middlesbrough Mayor Dave Budd defended the decision to spend the money promoting the new town hall. He said it showed investors the town's ambition:

"Let's put it into context, we've spent many millions of pounds on renovating the town hall, which is still the best building in Middlesbrough's history.

"This banquet is part of a whole series of events to reopen the town hall in it's present guise so we shouldn't take it in isolation."

Jillian Grant, who was registered blind, was found dead on Christmas Day at a flat on Tyneside.

The opening ceremony for the Great Exhibtion of the North is on Friday night.

It will feature live music and a huge fountain display on the River Tyne.

Tickets for the event sold out quickly after going on sale.

Extra Metros will be running that night to help people get to and from it.

I'm sure many of you sat down to watch England defeat Tunisia last night.

But was your set up anywhere near as good as this guy's?