Seven people, including two police officers, died in the wrong-way crash near Middlesbrough.
Hues of amber, indigo and orange lit up the skies over the North East this morning.
The RSPB said 155 pairs of roseate terns nested on Coquet Island in the most recent breeding season.
One billion plastic pellets have polluted the north-east England coastline, estimates suggest.
Co-founder Rebecca Earle says this year's North East Dog Festival has been the biggest yet.
Plans to create eight flats on the site of a vacant store in Redcar town centre are refused.
The Commercial on Middlesbrough Road, South Bank, will be opposite the Teesside Freeport.
The mountain bike trail in Hamsterley Forest is to shut when mass tree felling begins in 2028.
The group, who are on holiday from Ireland, are given a notice to leave the field in Redcar.
