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A child killer will be sentenced on Tuesday for murdering a seven-year-old girl 31 years ago. David Boyd, 55, was convicted earlier this month of murdering Nikki Allan in 1992 by luring her to a derelict warehouse in Sunderland’s East End, beating her with a brick and stabbing her 37 times in the chest. As part of the sentencing exercise, Newcastle Crown Court will hear victims’ statements from Nikki’s campaigning mother, Sharon Henderson, and George Heron, who was prosecuted for murder in 1993 and cleared.

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A NEW partnership has been forged aimed at helping to improve the health and wellbeing of older people on Teesside.

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A Teesside rapist who repeatedly attack his victim has been branded ‘dangerous’ after it was revealed he had a history of violence towards women.

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A man who fled on a mountain after allegedly torching a car is wanted by police.

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A man has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving following a crash near Hartlepool this morning.

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Adoption Tees Valley is celebrating its fifth birthday and families that have adopted children shared their experiences.

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Adoption Tees Valley (ATV) is celebrating its fifth birthday this month after revealing that it has found loving homes for almost 400 children since the service first launched.

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An adoption agency in the Tees Valley is marking its fifth birthday and families that have adopted children and welcomed them into their homes have shared their experience of Adoption Tees Valley.

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A fracture on the track led to travel misery for would-be passengers on the East Coast mainline today (Sunday May 21).

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RAF Thornaby is the forgotten airfield. Everyone knows about Leeming and Catterick; certainly everyone knows about Middleton St George, now Teesside airport, but if it wasn’t for the Spitfire on the roundabout leading to the Thornaby shopping centre that now covers its site, no one would know that it was once an airfield.

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