A woman left her partner with deep knife wounds to his hands with a bread knife during a row over a TV news story.
Angela Wight and the victim had been drinking when an argument blew up over the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. A court heard the man went to bed to get away from Wight but then went back downstairs and the argument resumed and Wight ended up damaging a TV by kicking the stand.
Emma Dowling, prosecuting, told Newcastle Crown Court : "He became angry and ordered her out of the address and told her to get her stuff. He threw various items out of the front door.
