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North East & Cumbria
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The co-founder and chairman of the company aiming to build the UK's first electric car battery "gigaplant" has quit after it emerged he was convicted for tax fraud in Sweden bbc.in/3qWf6Iu
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Sunderland boss Lee Johnson feels "let down" by the English Football League for not providing "clarity" on whether Tuesday's game with Wimbledon should go ahead following a Covid-19 outbreak bbc.in/2WhzrKg
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Patients at a surgery in Maryport will have to wait longer for coronavirus vaccinations after almost 1,000 doses failed to arrive bbc.in/3897I3Z
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We can't wait for Cherry Valentine to spill the tea 💃
The Darlington drag queen is one of the contestants on series two of RuPaul's Drag Race UK bbc.in/3r3Gu7q 👏
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A depleted Sunderland drew against Wimbledon after Covid-19 caused problems at the Stadium of Light bbc.in/3r3nZ2Y
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A GP and medical director whose father died with coronavirus says the vaccine roll-out feels "bittersweet" because it has come too late for many people bbc.in/3gVc2rI
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Surgeon Barney Green describes himself as a plumber, fixing the pipes that carry blood around the human body bbc.in/37skYSl
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Clinical trials have started for a coronavirus vaccine to be initially tested on 150 volunteers at sites in Newcastle, Birmingham, Bristol and Southampton bbc.in/37lwzCj
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Hexham's East Woodburn Bridge and the Lake District's Graythwaite Hall gardens feature for the North East and Cumbria bbc.in/3nszOxI
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“It is a bittersweet moment”
Says the doctor in charge of the vaccine rollout in Sunderland..
“My father passed away with Covid, and I wish he was alive to be offered the vaccine”
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North West Durham MP Richard Holden's proposals to outlaw "medieval" virginity testing have passed their first parliamentary stage bbc.in/2WhPl7p
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A man who beat his girlfriend's uncle to death and took a "trophy photograph" has been jailed bbc.in/2IQgdZ4
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Newcastle boss Steve Bruce said two of his players are "not well at all" after contracting coronavirus bbc.in/3aadaWZ
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A speeding driver who killed a 13-year-old girl and seriously injured her sister and mother has been jailed for four-and-a-half years bbc.in/3qWibZ3
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"It's brought the whole community together. I'm blown away"
A woman has delivered hundreds of Christmas gifts to victims of domestic abuse and their families after an appeal on Facebook for donations bbc.in/2JXOVRj 🎁🎄👏
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This is Carlisle GP, Andrew Edgar who gave the first #CovidVaccine to a patient in a city surgery today. Thousands of people over 80 will be the first to receive inoculations this way. 'An historic moment.'
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The government's National Infrastructure Commission says the North would benefit more economically from investment in rail links between cities within the North than from an extension of HS2 to Leeds. In a report today they've looked at costs and benefits.
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Almost 350,000 young women are claiming unemployment benefits amid the pandemic bbc.in/2KvEq7G
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Little Mix's Jesy Nelson has left the group, saying being part of it had "taken a toll on my mental health" bbc.in/3a9Ffxz