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Minimum Temperature: 10C (50F)

Simon Gompertz
Personal finance correspondent, BBC News

The experience of former Darlington mayor Joe Anderson has highlighted the risks posed by phone fraudsters.

Scammers scared him into believing his bank account was under threat and that he should move his cash into a safe account, which was, in fact, bogus.

There will be more on this on Look North on BBC One at 18:30.

Len Smith, from Warkworth, sent in this atmospheric photo taken at sunrise over Church Hill in Alnmouth.

Image source, Len Smith

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Phil Mawson
BBC News

More than 3,000 households in Sunderland are to be asked for their views on the city's transport services.

Image source, Sunderland Council

Sunderland City Council, external is one of 86 local authorities signed up to the survey.

The survey, which is being run for the eighth year, is one of the largest collaborations of its type between local authorities in England.

Richard Moss
Political editor, North East & Cumbria

Middlesbrough's MP Andy McDonald has called for Parliament to move out of London and Westminster permanently.

He says if government is to move out of Westminster for six years to finish the restoration works needed, it begs the question why should it go back?

But where in the North East? Suggestions sane and not so sane please on Twitter using #MoveParliamentNorth

Here are today's top stories on Local Live

• Rail freight company DB Schenker has announced plans to cut 234 jobs, mainly across the north of England.

• Organisers of the famous Great North Run have admitted being "a little over the top" in a trademark dispute involving a charity race staged in a small Welsh village.

• A great-grandfather from Sunderland, thought to be Europe's oldest man, dies at the age of 111.

BBC Sport

Hartlepool have confirmed recruitment company JPNG Global has completed its takeover of the club.

Previous majority shareholders Increased Oil Recovery, who took control in 1997, announced on Friday that it had sold Hartlepool and chairman Ken Hodcroft had stepped down with immediate effect.

Gary Coxall has been named as the new chairman. "It's a deal that we have been working on for the past three months," he said. "We're really pleased that it is completed and we can start to implement our plans."

Sunderland Echo

Determined residents have told council chiefs that they won't allow them to close a busy Wearside road junction without a fight., external

Image source, Sunderland Echo

BBC Travel

One lane is closed on the A19 southbound in Thornaby-on-Tees between the A1130 Levick Crescent junction and the A174 junction, because of a multi-vehicle accident.

More details on the BBC Travel website for Tees.

Cleveland Police tweets, external: Dorothy Hatfield has now been found safe and well. Thank you to everyone for sharing!

Rebecca O'Neill
BBC Newcastle

Harvinder Singh, the grandson of Nazar Singh, who has died and was thought to be Europe's oldest man, said: "He was an incredible chap. He has lived a very happy and fulfilling life.

"For the past few weeks he has been suffering with a few illnesses. He has had pneumonia but he was a fighter.

"Unfortunately, his time has passed. It was early hours on Saturday, just before Fathers' Day."

Mr Gill said his grandfather, who had 34 grandchildren and 63 great grandchildren, was always surrounded by family.

Rebecca O'Neill
BBC Newcastle

A great-grandfather from Sunderland, thought to be Europe's oldest man, has died at the age of 111 while visiting family in India.

Nazar Singh (pictured centre) was born in Punjab in 1904 and lived in England for 50 years, moving in 1989 to the North East to live with one of his nine children.

He died in the early hours of Saturday in India having travelled over to spend time with family, his grandson Harvinder Gill, 31, from Ashbrooke, Sunderland said.

Phil Mawson
BBC News

Police on Teesside are searching for a "vulnerable" 83-year-old woman who went missing while on a shopping trip with her family.

Image source, Dorothy Hatfield

Dorothy Hatfield's family left her in their red Ford Focus in the car park of Tesco, in Ingleby Barwick, as it was raining as they went to do their shopping. However on their return she was not in the vehicle.

Dorothy is white, 5ft 2ins tall and of medium build. She has brown/grey short straight fine hair and was wearing a pink t-shirt, brown cardigan, blue anorak, dark green trousers and navy shoes.

The Gazette

A ward at Teesside's biggest hospital was closed after legionella bacteria was found in the water supply., external

Eleven patients at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough had to be moved from Ward 33, after the bug was discovered in its water supply.

Here are today's top stories on Local Live:

• More than 200 jobs are going across the North East as the UK's largest rail logistics company makes efficiency savings.

• A man is arrested after police say a Sunderland woman was bundled into a car.

• Organisers of the famous Great North Run have admitted being "a little over the top" in a trademark dispute involving a charity race staged in a small Welsh village.

Catherine Lee
BBC News

A multi-million pound investment is being made to modernise the Tyne and Wear Metro over the next year.

The owner, Nexus, is spending £40m on train refurbishment and track replacement as part of a £398m Government-funded plan.

Northern Echo

A North East police officer has been dismissed for watching pornography at work., external

Since 2012, at least 69 officers from across the region have been investigated for breaking rules around computer use, according to figures detailed in a Freedom of Information request.

Phil Mawson
BBC News

Rail union leader Mick Cash is to tell a conference in Newcastle that there is a "massive threat" to jobs and union rights from the newly-elected Conservative government.

Mick Cash, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, is telling the opening day of the union's annual conference in Newcastle that public services will be "decimated" because of cuts over the next year.

The union is involved in a number of industrial disputes across a wide range of sectors including London Underground and Northern and Trans Pennine Express.

BBC Sport

Teesside's Olympic rowing champion Kat Copeland has got off to a medal winning start with new sculls partner Charlotte Taylor.

The pair claimed gold in the lightweight double skulls at the World Cup in Varese, Italy on Sunday.

Copeland, from Ingleby Barwick, said: "I am really proud of us. It's great to have Charlie behind me. She is so strong and I feel like she is almost pushing me along at times."