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A small sticker placed on a parking meter can now provide criminals with everything they need to target an unsuspecting driver. Fake QR code parking scams, commonly known as “quishing”, have alrea...
The market stall selling perfume at a fifth of the shop price, the social media account offering des...
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A man has been sentenced after admitting outraging public decency following an incident inside Burge...
As asylum seekers in Newcastle and across Britain are given new government guidance explaining UK la...
Britain has some of the tightest firearms controls anywhere in the world, and yet there are thousand...
A licensed venue in Newcastle can be trading normally on a Friday and closed by the following month....
Getting into a stranger's car late at night is an act of trust that most people perform without a se...
There is no statute of limitations on murder in England and Wales. A killing that took place forty y...
Few pieces of animal legislation have provoked as much argument as the addition of the XL bully to t...
Copying somebody else's work and presenting it as your own can have serious consequences, but could ...
Three different levels of criminal record check exist in England and Wales, and knowing which one an employer can lawfully request matters a great deal.
Passengers travelling through Monument Metro Station in Newcastle city centre were met by metal dete...
They are such a familiar sight on British roads that it is easy to assume a speed camera is little m...
The officer who stops to speak to you on Northumberland Street on a Saturday afternoon may not be pa...
The Tyne looks placid from the Quayside on a summer evening, which is a large part of the problem. I...
For most people who follow Newcastle United, the football banning order is something that happens to...
A vape company was ordered to pay more than £1,000 after banned disposable vapes were discovered fo...
A jury summons landing on the doormat causes more anxiety than almost any other official letter, though the reality is more ordinary than most people expect.
