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Anti-Semitic and hate crimes rising in the North-East according to latest figures

Recently released figures have shown almost 100 anti-semitic hate crimes were reported in the Northumbria Police area in the past 12 months. Hate crime is...

Zeera in South Shields is voted Best Indian Restaurant in prestigious awards ceremony.

A South Tyneside restaurant is adding to the growing list of awards winners here in the North-East. Award-winning Zeera offers the finest gourmet Indian food...

Gang flooding drugs onto the streets of Newcastle facing lengthy sentences

Baber Azim has been convicted along with seven others at Newcastle Crown Court for his part in a high value drugs plot in the...

Starmer leads Nick Forbes tributes

Sir Keir Starmer has paid tribute to Newcastle’s outgoing council leader, after Nick Forbes revealed that he will stand down in May. After 11 years...

Teesside ready to celebrate the UK’s biggest state-of-the-art Poundland store

Teesside will soon be able to boast the UK’s biggest and best Poundland store set to open at the end of this month. On Saturday...

Couple Locked in lighthouse visitor attraction for more than six hours after staff went home

Barry and Vera Singh from Whickham spent six hours locked inside St Marys lighthouse close to Whitley Bay when doors were closed on the...

An experienced Safeguarding detective has been appointed as the new Assistant Chief Constable of Durham.

Tonya Antonis, currently serving as a Chief Superintendent with Suffolk Constabulary, will take up her post at the end of February. Although she has held...

Farooq Hakim takes up vital role at the University of Sunderland

A former student and successful North-East businessman is set to take up a new role as Chair of the Board of Governors at the...

Covid vaccines to be offered to children aged five to 11 from April

Children aged five to 11 in England with no underlying health conditions are to be offered covid jabs from April. No definite timeframe has...

Free covid tests could be scrapped as part of the Government’s learning to live with covid strategy.

Asian Standard has learned free covid testing could be dropped as early as next week as part of the government’s ‘living with covid’ strategy....

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