Gateshead News from the Evening Chronicle

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The Evening Chronicle is the daily, evening newspaper produced in Newcastle upon Tyne, covering Tyne and Wear, southern Northumberland and Northern County Durham. It was founded in 1885 by Joseph Cowen.

BEHIND this front door lurks tragedy after two young lives were claimed in just two years. Once more this ordinary looking flat is at the centre of a riddle after a woman's death.

TRAGIC student Joseph Cook was killed for just £10. The popular, talented, 20-year-old, from Newcastle, was knifed 15 times by drug-crazed Gareth Brear, when he disturbed him breaking into his student digs in Leeds.

FROM shadowy figures to grisly goings-on - Newcastle's darkest secrets are set to be revealed by a team of professional ghost hunters.

MORE than £80m will transform run-down schools in Gateshead. Five senior schools will share the cash to complete rebuilds and refurbishments.

A MAN arrested in connection with a murder which happened more than 20 years ago has declared his innocence.

HIS was the ultimate sacrifice. But young soldier David Watson's bravery will never be forgotten, and now in a lasting tribute his name has been added to his local war memorial in Whickham, Gateshead.

A DRUG supply network operating in a corner of Tyneside has been smashed. Police gathered intelligence about substances being supplied from a house in Newcastle’s West End.

IT WAS once the scene of welding and sandblasting as ships set sail out of the River Tyne. But now cameras have started rolling as films are being made at the Swan Hunter shipyard.

COLLEGES across the North East will have to cope with multi-million pound spending cuts.

A RAIDER’S wasted life of crime has left him a stranger to his own children, a judge warned.