Drag performer George Ward, known by his stage name Cherry Valentine, has died at the age of 28, his family have announced.

The study is published in the journal Psychological Science.

Five teenagers who beat a father to death after joking he looked like Ant or Dec have been sentenced.

Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens has appeared in court to face two allegations of flashing.

Actor Stephen Tompkinson will appear at Newcastle Crown Court charged with a single count of inflicting grievous bodily harm, the Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed.

The families of five children waiting for a heart transplant have joined together to ask people to consider becoming organ donors.

Either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will become the next British prime minister after Tory MPs put them into the final round of the Conservative leadership election.

A “supermoon” is expected to appear bigger and brighter to stargazers in the UK on Wednesday night. July’s full moon is known as the Buck Moon because male deer shed and regrow their antlers around this time of year.

Johnny Depp was pictured greeting fans and relaxing with Sam Fender at a pub in Newcastle just moments after a jury returned a favourable verdict in his multimillion-dollar US lawsuit.

Labour leader says he is 'absolutely clear' no laws were broken in curry and beer gathering in Durham last year

Police have made an arrest after video circulated online of a man urinating on a memorial to hero manager Bob Stokoe outside Sunderland’s Stadium of Light.

Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens has chosen a trial in front of a jury in the Crown Court to face four charges of indecent exposure. The alleged flashing incidents are said to have taken place in Swanley, Kent, in January and February last year.

The frog, named Minty, is being cared for by RSPCA inspector Lucy Green, who has tried to establish what species he is.

A Middlesbrough supporter has been arrested after leaving his 11-year-old son at a hotel while celebrating his side’s FA Cup victory against Manchester United.

Olivia Colman has told schoolchildren it is “vital that we look after our own mental wellbeing” as part of a series of virtual assemblies recorded for Children’s Mental Health Week.

A football team’s doctor has helped to save a second fan’s life after they fell ill while watching a match.

The otter, named Eve, was suffering with hypothermia when it was discovered in a bin by a member of the public

Boris Johnson recognised the “terrible toll” of coronavirus on the UK after official figures showed more than 150,000 people have now died

The UK Met Office issued a status yellow wind warning for the North which is in place until 6pm this evening

Amazon’s largest UK warehouse is being blockaded by climate activists targeting the global retail giant’s busiest day of the year.

The UK Court of Appeal has declined to increase the sentence of a man jailed for four years and eight months after choking his lover to death during consensual sex.

During the visit, pictures showed him going about the hospital without a face covering – while wearing a mask at other times

The UK is Norway’s top trading partner outside the EU, and in terms of their overall trade volumes, this agreement is more significant for Norway and Iceland than it is for London.

A teenager who sent an “outrageously disgusting” racist message to an Irish Aston Villa footballer via Instagram has been sentenced to a referral order – and told that any breach will result in him being locked up.

The inquest will be held by Assistant Senior Coroner for County Durham Crispin Oliver at Crook Civic Centre

There is an 'absolute urgency' to secure extra funding for addiction support network in the North East according to Bishop Michael Router

The men, whose ages range from 24 to 49, were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and remain in custody awaiting interviews

Author of drug and gang crisis report would be 'very disappointed' if 'very impressive' FASN group was forced to close

Dr Polvikoski said the clinical evidence 'strongly supports the idea that it was, indeed, vaccine-induced'

The body of British hiker Esther Dingley, who went missing in the Pyrenees, has been found by her partner close to where a bone was discovered two weeks ago.

A Santa impersonator who sexually assaulted two women while he was working has avoided jail. Raymond Finn, 71, preyed on his adult victims while he was dressed as Father Christmas in December 2018, Northumbria Police said.

Three other under-18s were seriously injured in the crash

Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi is refusing to co-operate with a prison deradicalisation programme, it has been reported.

UK Industry leaders have spoken out over possible compromises on food standards, while farmers fear they could be undercut by cut-price imports.

Photos taken from a night shoot of the new Indiana Jones movie show a dramatic fire staged at a historic coastal castle.

Harrison Ford told a young fan he is Indiana Jones’s stunt double when the star was spotted on location in North Yorkshire, the boy’s mother has revealed.

British chancellor Rishi Sunak was willing to accept a short delay to Step 4 of the road map to ending the lockdown amid a rise in cases, it is understood.

The 35-year-old man died following reports of an assault in a small town near Newcastle 

Boris Johnson has warned that plans to end lockdown restrictions next month are in jeopardy as scientists feared the Indian coronavirus variant could be 50% more transmissible than the Kent strain.

Debenhams is to shut its doors for the final time in its 243-year history.

Former Debenhams workers in Ireland have been calling for a greater redundancy settlement from the retail giant's joint liquidator, KPMG, and have been demonstrating since April 9 of last year.

Jeremy Corbyn has said it is a “bit rich” to blame him for Labour’s poor election performance as four of Keir Starmer’s predecessors weighed in on the party’s woes.

The SNP has stormed ahead in the Scottish Parliament election, sparking demands for a second independence referendum and creating a constitutional clash with the Prime Minister.

Keir Starmer has come under fire from all sides after Labour suffered a crushing defeat in the Hartlepool by-election.