ADULTS from the North-East and Scotland are the most likely to assume they are overweight rather than clinically obese and at risk of major health problems, according to a new survey.
STUDENTS at Teesside University have picked the teaching and support staff they feel have made the most exceptional contribution in 2014/15 at the second annual STAR Awards.
TONY Lewin has been appointed as new principal for Newcastle College, one of the largest further and higher education colleges in the UK.
A CHILDHOOD dream to write a book has finally become a reality for Teesside University academic Gabrielle Kent.
ON World No Tobacco Day new figures show that people in the North-East do not trust the tobacco industry.
Easington MP Grahame Morris, a long-serving member of the Health Select Committee in the last Parliament, is concerned about the future of GP services.
FOR the second day running a North-East mental health trust has admitted failings in the care of a patient who went on to kill.
A PIONEERING GP-run mental health project which prevented 16 suicides in its first year is being extended to another 15,000 patients across County Durham.
THE North-East is one of only nine centres in England selected to run a new masters degree in the futuristic discipline of genomic medicine.
DETAILS have been revealed of some of the concealed compartments that have been used to store illegal tobacco across the North-East.
