TWO men died and a woman was seriously injured when a suspected stolen car crashed into a Honda following a police chase. The deceased were in a Volkswagen Golf in Newcastle which did not stop when instructed to do so by officers, Northumbria Police said. In the vehicle there was also another man who was

A FORMER professional footballer who drunkenly killed his elderly dad on Christmas Eve has been jailed for 12 years. Ex-Sunderland AFC and Hartlepool United player Paul Conlon, 43, acted “like an animal” when he punched, throttled and hit Harry Conlon during the deadly attack last year. Newcastle Crown Court heard the “gentle, kind and forgiving”

BUNGLING security staff let a prisoner flee from a prison van in a police station. They were tricked when Robert Smith, 24, complained he felt unwell inside his cell in the GeoAmey van. A guard rolled a bottle of water under the cell door but Smith said he could not reach it. The guard opened

A “HORRIBLE” Border Collie who mauled a social worker’s face leaving her permanently scarred will be put to sleep on a court’s order while its owner was spared jail. Charlotte Orr, 21, was banned from keeping dogs for 10 years and handed a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to having a dog dangerously out

AN ASDA worker has been slapped with a “ridiculous” £70 fine for parking in a Sainsbury’s car park for two minutes. Stephen Brayford, 54, was stunned to receive the penalty after pulling into the store in Newcastle-under-Lyme to drop his son off for college. The car park’s ANPR cameras captured him entering the at 8.30am