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About 20 children of all ages are playing darts. They are in groups of three or four in front of seven darts boards

Youth darts academy feels Luke Littler effect

Darts Academy North East is now full, with a waiting list, and says it hopes to expand.

Exterior of the club. It is a two-storey brown brick building and has large windows and solar panels on the roof. There are wooden tables and chairs on a grassed area in front of the club alongside a brick path.

Man ordered to pay £4.8k to ankle snap victim

Jammie Kerry attacked a man in a social club after watching an England football match.

A man, dressed as a viking, leads a procession of people carrying a barrel on their heads. Flames rise out of the barrels.

Your pictures: Christmas and New Year

You have been sharing your photos of Christmas and the New Year in the North East and Cumbria.

A woman with blonde hair wearing a wide-brimmed blue hat with white feathers and a blue jacket with a large white lace ruffle

North East quiz: A look at 2024's quirkier stories

A chance to see how much your remember of the more unusual stories we wrote about this year.

A man is wearing a knitted Viking hat and is bare chested. He has tattoos on both arms and is smiling broadly. He is standing next to a woman who is wearing a black bathing suit and Santa hat with her thumbs up. There are dippers in the waves behind them.

Swimmers brave cold North Sea for Boxing Day dips

Many dippers are raising money for charities, with lifeguards on hand to keep them safe.

Close up of two sets of arms and hands (one pair in red gloves and another in green ones) throwing snowballs

Bus driver chased snowball youths with knife

Preston Lodowica, from Blyth, said he only wanted to scare the children after they pelted him.

A two carriage train crosses a railway viaduct with a river below. IT's an aerial shot with a town behind

Start date for 'groundbreaking' railway announced

Ashington and Seaton Delaval stations are finished, but four more will not open until 2025.

Nick Tait, standing in the corridor of his house, with bare plaster on the walls and what looks like an unfinished light socket on the wall. He has short hair and is wearing a white T-shirt and a black hoodie.

Flooded homeowners face 'quadrupled' insurance bills

Northumbrian Water apologises for the damage to people's homes and installs flood protection kit.

A large station carpark with lots of lights and a sign saying Ashington station.

Railway line to open with only two stations ready

Trains will begin running "before Christmas" but with only two stations completed.