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Military air crews train in military exercise
by Claire Montgomery
Military aircrew from as far afield as Australia and the Czech Republic are in North Yorkshire for an exercise.
Read the full storyCare worker stole from great-grandfather
by Frances Reed
A woman from Teesside has been banned from working in care homes after stealing money from a great-grandfather she was looking after.
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The North East footballers remembered in East London
The story of three North East footballers who played for Orient - and who died in the First World War - still remembered 100 years on
Read the full storyDrinkhall into Men's Doubles Semi Finals
Teesside's Paul Drinkhall has earned his second Semi-Final spot in a matter of hours after progressing in the Table Tennis Men's Doubles.
The 24-year-old, from Loftus, and his partner Liam Pitchford overcame Nigeria 3-2 in the Quarter-Finals. It came less an hour after Drinkhall and his wife Joanna qualified for the Semi-Finals of the Mixed Doubles event.
However, Northallerton's Daniel Reed is out of the Men's Doubles after he and Sam Walker were beaten 3-1 by India in the Quarter-Finals.
Durham bus crash families take legal action
The families of school children who were on-board two buses which crashed head-on in County Durham are taking legal action as they seek to find out exactly what went wrong.
28 children and two bus drivers were taken to hospital after the crash on June 3. The pupils, aged 11-18, were from St Bede's Catholic School, Lanchester, and Tanfield School.
Lawyers at Irwin Mitchell, which has an office in Newcastle, have so far been instructed to represent 15 children injured in the crash in Stanley when a double-decker and a single-decker bus collided.
Missing Portuguese teen
Police are appealing for help to find a missing teenager in Sunderland.
14-year-old Claudia Fernandes, who is originally from Portugal, is staying with family in the Grindon area.
She left her home at around 3pm yesterday and her family have not heard from her since.
Claudia is around five feet four, of medium build and has brown eyes. She is believed to be wearing bright blue leggings, a black jacket and black and pink Vans trainers.
She doesn't speak very good English, and officers are carrying out enquiries to try to find her.
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Reed through to Mixed Doubles Semi Finals
Northallerton's Daniel Reed has progressed into the Semi-Finals of the Table Tennis Mixed Doubles.
The 24-year-old, from Northallerton, and his partner Kelly Sibley overcome India 3-2 in the Quarter-Finals.
The Mixed Doubles Semi-Finals gets underway on Friday.
Drinkhall's beat Singapore to make semis
Teesside's Paul Drinkhall and his wife Joanna have beaten number ones seeds Singapore in the Table Tennis Mixed Doubles quarter finals in Glasgow.
The couple won 3-1 at the Scotstoun Sports Campus to go through to the semi finals tomorrow.
Top Gun style military exercise comes to region
Squadron Leader Mike Gallagher from RAF Benson is leading the exercise.
He says the three week course helps equip some of the country's best helicopter pilots with advanced skills in warfare.
Mr and Mrs Drinkhall take to the table
MIddlesbrough's Paul Drinkhall is currently competing in the Commonwealth Games table tennis mixed doubles with his wife Joanna.
They are leading 1-0 against world number ones Singapore in their quarter-final match at Scotstoun Sports Campus in Glasgow.
