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A selection of tributes to people from around the North East who have passed away in the past few weeks

What did Hunter families call their new arrivals last year?

‘We tried so hard to make it work’

The first pages of Gail Jones’ beautiful new novel, Salonika Burning, offer a vision. The image is of a city on fire, watched by soldiers at a distance who despite, or perhaps because of, their familiarity with devastation, are transfixed “with indecent pleasure” by the sight.

Cocker spaniel Olive was left hanging off a cliff edge after falling while on a walk in Chopwell Woods

Writer and broadcaster who lent his fishing expertise to TV and radio shows and co-authored The River Cottage Fish Book

A dad has admitted he isn't a fan of the name he and his wife chose for their 13-month-old daughter - even though he already went through the process of changing it

"I want my sister to be able to do everything I can do"

Ange, who says she's always been a bigger size, was appalled when doctors asked if she 'wanted to terminate one or two of her babies' over concerns for her health due to her BMI