The list celebrates the "diversity of England's shared heritage" which has been protected in 2021.

Prof Eugene Milne says Omicron has not resulted in an overall increase in case numbers in Newcastle.

A performance at Middlesbrough Town Hall is cancelled and gates locked to stop anyone entering.

The Football News Show discusses where Newcastle need to strengthen and how problematic recruitment could be in January.

Claire Hughes slipped and broke her ankle while on a remote, snow-covered hill after Storm Arwen.

Jimmy Robson, who has died at the age of 82, scored the 100th goal in an FA Cup final in 1962.

Newcastle's Centre for Life Covid vaccination centre says it can cope with government plans to offer boosters to over-18s before the end of the month.

The government says every adult can expect to be offered a chance to get boosted by the end of December - a month sooner than previously planned, to try to slow the spread of the Omicron variant.

Allison Heathcote, a matron at the vaccination hub, said: "It's always something we've expected, change has become the norm, so it is something we're always pre-empting.

"We need to be prepared and we have several centres and we all work well with pre-planning and trying to predict what's next."

Newcastle United will be allowed sponsorship deals with Saudi Arabian companies as long as the Premier League considers them "fair market value".

Paula Tiffin died when a car being driven by Bradley Webb hit a wall while trying to evade officers.

Councillors complain vandals have left the 170-year-old High Level Bridge in an "unsightly" state.

The centre, due to open towards the end of 2022, will replace mobile scanning vans currently in use.

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The number of daily Covid vaccinations in the North East will need to double if all adults are to be offered a booster by the end of the month.

More than 130,000 jabs will need to be given out daily, up from 61,000 at the moment.

People faced long waits for appointments on Monday, prompting health bosses to warn people not to turn up to walk-in clinics but to arrange appointments in advance.

Volunteers who helped with previous vaccine rollouts are being approached again while it is understood the Army will also be used.

Opening hours for vaccine centres will be extended and pop-up clinics will also be set up in order to boost capacity by 50% this week and by 100% soon after.

Dr George Rae, a North Tyneside GP and the British Medical Association’s regional chairman, urged everyone to get a booster to help fight off the Omicron variant.

Wire cutters are used to free the "greedy" grey squirrel which became wedged inside a bird feeder.

A North East Labour MP says she will join a Conservative rebellion in a House of Commons vote later on a set of measures for England aimed at slowing the spread of the Omicron variant.

While an estimated 70 Tory MPs are expected to vote against the government on the planned introduction of mandatory Covid passes, the measures are expected to pass with Labour’s backing.

But Emma Lewell-Buck, Labour MP for South Shields, said she would not be among the opposition MPs voting with the government.

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“We are slowly sliding here into a dictatorship,” she told BBC Radio Newcastle.

“I will always do the right thing by my constituents and I don’t think voting for these passports is the right thing to do for my constituency.

“I think this is just the thin end of the wedge. If we let them start to impose things like this, where does it stop?”

There will also be a vote to replace self-isolation with daily tests for double-jabbed contacts of positive cases and a retrospective vote on mandatory mask-wearing in many indoor settings.