Northumbria Police

Four people have been taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary with multiple injuries after the crash in Ponteland. Two were transported by air, and two by road.

Drugs and weapons including knives and crossbows have been seized during a series of early morning raids in Birtley, Gateshead.

Diane Wright was part of a large-scale conspiracy which saw her husband and three grandsons arrested following a series of police raids in 2018.