A playwright who spent 10 days watching the trial of two men who felled a landmark British tree is to write a play about the ...

Adam Carruthers, right, arrives at Newcastle Crown Court where he is accused of criminal damage after the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree - valued at £622,000 and £1,114 damage to Hadrian's ...

HERE's a round-up of some of the local court cases we've covered from around the Tyne Valley in 2025 so far. A paedophile who befriended a family so he could get close to a young child has been put ...