Necropsies are being carried out on seabirds to find out the effects of microplastic pollutants.

Labour could pay price for disappearance of parks and playgrounds around Euston station

Unprecedented protests that began in low-income banlieue are turning ugly, with investigations under way into police brutality

Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

Bad business decisions have been blamed for the decision to shut entire departments — as academics protest it is students who suffer

Jarrow youngsters are set to benefit from £250,000-worth of funding over the course of the next ten years.

Today marks the 90th anniversary of 200 men setting off from Jarrow to London to highlight the impact of unemployment in the Tyneside town

Young people say getting work is a struggle nine decades after Jarrow crusaders marched for jobs.

Community-run information hub for volunteers responding to the Port of Tyne nurdle spill across the North East coast.

Bizarre graffiti about a range of celebrities has been daubed across the Newcastle suburb

Meadow Well is like no other estate I have known. By the 1980's, against Thatcher's claim of 'No such thing as society' , a core of residents, predominantly women, had other ideas. They had managed to...

A car, which had three teenagers inside, plunged into the water in Sunderland on Tuesday afternoon sparking a huge 999 response and River Wear search which ended in tragedy

Students at Edinburgh, Dundee and Nottingham face a term without any teaching as sector struggles with rising financial uncertainty

Temperatures are expected to rise well above the late September average on Tuesday with a very warm night to follow, as Simon King explains.