Tyne Tees Consumer

Businesses in Gateshead say they are keeping positive the small budget gains announced will help ease the cost of living pressures.

An 80-year-old man from Cramlington, Northumberland says he has been without heating and hot water for almost two weeks due to broken boiler.

Go North East said that rising prices for diesel, parts, tyres, energy bills at depots and drivers' pay meant that ticket fares have to be increased.