Wearside

Erik Engblom, and his friend Peter Karlsson, from the City of Ludvika in Sweden, came a long way to walk across the Wearmouth Bridge to the Stadium of Light.

The 19-year-old's worried family called police after they received messages from him and were unable to gain entry to his address.

A singer-songwriter from Sunderland has flown to the US for treatment for a rare brain tumour.