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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....

Urgent action is needed to solve problems of ethnic inequality in the NHS according to a damning report.

A damning report commissioned by the NHS Race and Health Observatory has cited radical action is needed urgently to tackle “overwhelming” minority ethnic health...

Northumbria students set to benefit from business-funded scholarships

A North-East university is lighting the way for under-represented groups including ethnic minorities to find a personal pathway to success. Working with CBRE, Enterprise Rent-A-Car...

Tragic death of a deeply loved Middlesbrough teenager deemed an accident by a Teesside coroner

The tragic passing of a much-loved teenager who suffered blunt force trauma in a car crash was deemed to be an accident according to...

Boastful North Shields drug dealer Ismail Ahmed received a three-year sentence at Newcastle Crown Court.

A North Shields drug dealer who boasted he could drop off a cocktail of narcotics anywhere in the region has been locked up for...

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