Collections will be held after each performance of a new play in memory of a young South Tyneside couple who lost their lives in the Manchester Arena bombing.
A naming ceremony for a new inshore lifeboat had only just finished when it was called to rescue four people trapped by the incoming tide on a South Shields beach.
Charity champion Colin Burgin-Plews is today paying tribute to all 22 people killed in the Manchester Arena terror attack, including the teenage couple from South Shields who died in the horror incident.
Celebrities have given their support to Hartlepool's Michael Rice saying politics played a role in the successful singer being placed last in Eurovision last night.
