The Latest Breaking News from South Tyneside

Dog dies after being struck by Metro train in Hebburn area of South Tyneside

Metro services between Hebburn and South Shields were halted following the incident on Monday morning

Chronicle Live · Mar 6, 2023

'We are getting no help at all': South Tyneside taxi drivers' anger over Newcastle Clean Air Zone

Taxi drivers outside of Newcastle, Gateshead, and North Tyneside are not eligible for support to help with the cost of Clean Air Zone tolls or to upgrade to cleaner vehicles

Chronicle Live · Mar 4, 2023

Firm told to pay almost £26,000 after releasing 'unregulated and smelly gases' into the air in South Tyneside

BioConstruct New Energy Limited has been told to pay a substantial fine for breaching its environmental permit

Chronicle Live · Mar 2, 2023

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust 'requires improvement': Regulator highlights maternity and mental health among issues

The South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust is now rated 'requires improvement'

Chronicle Live · Feb 3, 2023

Top doctor welcomes new £3m ICU facilities to South Tyneside that are 'some of the best in the world'

Patients are now being cared for in a new £3m South Tyneside District Hospital critical care unit

Chronicle Live · Feb 2, 2023

Bully jailed for unprovoked attacks on boys aged 14 and 17 near South Tyneside Metro station

Buzz Smith, of Sunderland, was high on drugs when he attacked the youths and stole a phone from one of them

Chronicle Live · Jan 31, 2023

Eight gun plot thugs guilty of UK-wide conspiracy which saw firearm blasted at South Shields home

Paul Momat and right-hand man Joseph Millward, of South Tyneside, initiated the plot to lay down a warning to a rival

Chronicle Live · Jan 25, 2023

Mum took on British Coal and WON in battle over choking fumes and poisonous puddles

Jennie Shearan, a housewife who moved to South Tyneside with her young family in 1953, devoted incalculable hours campaigning for her local British Coal plant to stop polluting the area with emissions such as sulphur dioxide

Daily Mirror · Jan 19, 2023

85-year-old man dies after firefighters rescue him from blaze at his South Shields bungalow

The 85-year-old resident passed away at South Tyneside District Hospital on Sunday

Chronicle Live · Jan 19, 2023

Amazon to close South Tyneside depot amid major UK network shake-up

The global online retailer is closing a number of UK delivery depots but says staff will move to other sites

Chronicle Live · Jan 11, 2023