With a celebration of the region’s parks and green spaces about to begin, why not make the most of the summer holidays and enjoy the great outdoors with your family.
Environmentalists are urging litter louts and fly tippers to alter course after a clean-up of a Jarrow river netted everything but the kitchen sink.
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