Hartlepool

Plastic nurdles are washing up on beaches more than 30 miles south of the Port of Tyne spill site.

Co-founder Rebecca Earle says this year's North East Dog Festival has been the biggest yet.

Weather Watches snap the thirsty landscapes of the North East and Cumbria as temperatures cool.

Joanne Mulholland, 56, says she re-sat her exams 40 years ago and failed three times.

The site, which makes titanium dioxide pigment, stopped production last year.

Babies, birds and Sir Bobby. Try your hand at our quiz of this week's North East and Cumbria news.

Students across the North East receive their A-level, T-level and BTech results.