Four found dead at Newcastle home

Two adults and two children were found dead at a house in Newcastle upon Tyne today.

The grim discovery was made just before 9am.

Northumbria Police said they went to a house in Hawthorn Gardens, in the Kenton area of the city "acting on information received".

A spokesman said the two adults and two children were believed to be members of the same family. Their deaths are being treated as suspicious.

He said police were urgently trying to trace a man that visited the address where the bodies were found.