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The Tyne Bridge looking rusty. The photo is taken from one end of steel arch, looking along the road with cars travelling in both directions.

Final £6m for Tyne Bridge repairs confirmed

The government agrees the final £6.3m Tyne Bridge repair cash after putting it on hold last year.

Jessica Thorpe smiling at the camera. She had long blond hair and is wearing a burgundy dress, with matching burgundy painted nails. She is holding a wine glass.

Wrongly accused trainee nurse mourns loss of career

Jessica Thorpe on her five-year fight after a patient lied by claiming she was carrying his baby.

Jessica Thorpe is looking at the camera and smiling slightly. She has long blonde hair and blue eyes. She is wearing a blue dress and has a gold necklace.

Trainee nurse wins patient baby claim case

Jessica Thorpe, who won an employment tribunal, says the past four years had been "a torture".

Back of head of a boy at a table looking at a notebook. He is holding a pencil while sitting in a classroom. Other pupils sitting in the desks in front of the boy are out of focus.

Benefit cap punishing poor children, study says

Researches claim child poverty rates are "directly and strongly correlated" to benefit caps.

An artist's rendition of the what the old Cathedral Square offices on the Bigg Market would look like. A seven-storey white building is at one end of a plaza lined with restaurants, shops and venues.

Fears over short-stay flats plan in nightlife spot

A largely vacant office block in Newcastle's Bigg Market could be turned into short-term let flats.

Mazyar Azarbonyad leaves Newcastle Crown Court wearing a black, fitted long-sleeved top. He is holding a mobile phone to his ear as he looks ahead. He has black hair in tight curls on top of his head with a shorter crop to the sides and a neatly kept black beard and moustache.

Driver detained for police pile-up on first date

Mazyar Azarbonyad is detained for 14 months for causing the crash which injured seven officers.

A sign with NCAT in different school artwork-style colours. The A has been made into a person. Underneath it reads Newcastle Community Asset Trust. The last lines says The Blakelaw Centre and Library.

Insolvency-hit trust hands back community centres

NCAT says it could not reverse the "long-term decline" of its finances.

Martin Beal is looking at his house which is a Georgian stone built farmhouse with a white door and windows. He is a man, about 60 years of age, wearing a waist coat, white shirt and light coloured trousers.

Tyneside stories you may have missed this week

A sausage roll, a pit pony statue mystery and a car stranded near Holy Island make headlines.

A yellow and black new style metro train at an outdoor station, with passengers waiting on the platform. Around building sits on the central platform between the two rail lines.

Fresh pledge to improve Metro mobile signal

Nexus says it is still committed to improve connectivity, despite lack of progress on the project.