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I live on UK’s ‘worst high street’ – junkies brawl in broad daylight, pickpockets rob grans & locals are scared to visit

DRAGGING her shopping bag up the almost-deserted high street, an elderly woman stops to kick an empty can of lager out of her way. It’s just a stone’s throw from a plaza known as ‘Suicide Square’ on Shields Road, in Byker, Newcastle, where drug addicts and alcoholics waste away the hours. The two-mile-long stretch of […] The Sun Newcastle upon Tyne …


Hilarious funeral tribute to UK’s toughest mum who threatened locals with shovel and attacked neighbour’s front door

BRITAIN’S most formidable mum was remembered by her kids in a hilarious funeral notice praising her battleaxe qualities. The obituary for tough Geordie Joan Parkin included her family revealing she once “chopped lumps out of a neighbour’s front door”. Anyone posing a risk to her brood was threatened with having their head “cut off with […] The Sun Newcastle upon Tyne …