Newburn families can return home
Owners of properties at Spencer Court in Newburn can return to their homes following flooding in 2012.
Families can now move back to flooded Tyneside estate
Owners of properties on a Tyneside housing estate that were wrecked by floods in September 2012 are starting to move back in.
Heavy rain washed away the land and foundations under part of Spencer Court in Newburn.
The families living there had to be evacuated.
Some of the houses had to be demolished but some of the owners of houses still standing can now return.
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