The RSPCA says anyone with information about the "very upsetting incident" should contact them.

The local authority says it currently spends about £500,000 a year transporting 105 pupils.

Hampshire go top of the women's One-Day Cup table beating Lancashire while Surrey beat Durham and The Blaze win away to Warwickshire.

Mark Wood is irritated by an external "golf, golf, golf" narrative around the England team, but admits they do not help themselves.

Chris Weatherspoon assesses Sunderland's business model with praise for their youth focus.

The victim was stabbed three times in the smoking area of the pub, Teesside Crown Court heard.

A problem with the doors of the Swiss-built trains saw them taken out of action nine days ago.

Two men deny felling the much-loved tree which had stood on Hadrian's Wall for more than 100 years.

Marco Gabbiadini reflects on the "hard watch" of Sunderland's 2-0 defeat by Oxford United in the Championship.

A police officer says there were already multiple people at the site when he arrived.

Police say two males, aged 17 and 18, are arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

It took six hours to put out the fire at Easington Colliery Nature Reserve, the fire service says.

Beatrix's family say they are "gobsmacked" by the response, after she appeared on BBC show Casualty.

Police say motorcyclist Dave Hall struck a parked car on a Middlesbrough street on Sunday.

Police say Robert Scott Clive was assaulted in North Tyneside on the night he disappeared in 2002.

Prosecutors say two men deliberately felled the iconic and much-loved tree on Hadrian's Wall.

Firefighters say they are spotting birds nests while tackling deliberate fires.

A passenger photographs the door failure shortly before new Metro trains were pulled from service.

A silver Peugeot 5008 is found abandoned shortly after the crash in Blakelaw in Newcastle.

A jury is selected in the trial of two men who deny chopping down the tree on Hadrian's Wall.