Hundreds of dead and dying birds have fallen from the sky across Newcastle. The EPA is investigating, collecting samples, and testing to rule out bird flu. In distressing scenes, hundreds of ...

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They were the so-called 'supertankers' - improbably large oil-carrying vessels that came to dominate the River Tyne landscape during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Thousands of skilled men worked ...