15 h. ago Woman sick of renting now lives in a van with her dog for £650 a month

Nicole Keefe shares a mobile home with her four-legged friend McCartney

Society

17 h. ago 'I live in a van with my dog and bills are just £650 a month'

Nicole says she would never have been able to afford a home on her 9-5 job

Economics

18 h. ago Woman escapes UK rental market to live in a van with her dog for just £650 a month

Nicole Keefe, 27, from Newcastle, spent years moving around as a child "due to situations out of (her) control" and later because of "things not going right" with partners

Economics

24 h. ago 'I was struggling to afford rent, now I pay just £650 a month after a major lifestyle change'

Nicole Keefe, 27, said she has escaped the UK rental market

Economics

3 d. ago Personal trainer on FIRST DATE put seven police officers in hospital in six

Mazyar Azarbonyad, 20, of Syliva Terrace, Stanley, County Durham, appeared at Newcastle Magistrates' Court to admit a series of driving offences after the horrific crash (pictured).

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9 d. ago Liverpool vs West Ham LIVE: Van Dijk rescues Reds after late Robertson own goal in Premier League

Liverpool 2-1 West Ham: The Reds now just need two more wins to lift the Premier League title

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9 d. ago Liverpool vs West Ham LIVE: Premier League result, latest updates and reaction after Virgil van Dijk winner

Reds take another step towards title after Arsenal slip-up

Politics

1 week ago She survived one of America's most notorious child abductions... but six years on she's thriving

For 88 days, Jayme Closs was trapped inside her kidnapper's home after he killed her parents and abducted her. Now, six years after her escape, the young woman can be seen smiling.

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2 w. ago Girl, 13, killed in Prescot house fire: Five other children, a woman and man make lucky escape unharmed

Firefighters were scrambled to a mid-terraced home in Kingsway, Prescot, yesterday at 11.42pm after receiving a 999 call.

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2 w. ago Woman ran into street in underwear to escape as partner bit and strangled her

The victim of Daniel Hale, 26, said she had been left scared in her own 'tainted' home because of the attack

Politics

3 w. ago Woman, 67, survives car crash...only to escape vehicle and die in horrific freak accident moments later

Shirley Obert, 67, went missing Saturday after a car crash. She appeared to try to get help, but was found dead the following day after a horrific freak accident.

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3 w. ago Grealish, Wilshere and Van Gaal’s ‘kiss’: Newcastle’s parade has a lot to live up to

Eddie Howe’s men will celebrate their Carabao Cup win on Saturday but there can be pitfalls along the wayWhen the celebration of Newcastle’s first trophy in decades became a point of heated civic discussion, it served as a reminder that party planning can be problematic.“Extensive work and long-term planning behind the scenes have continued with Newcastle City council, Northumbria police, Freemen of Newcastle, the North East Combined Authority, NE1, Nexus and the emergency services,” groaned a club statement this week, ending fevered speculation that Saturday’s ticketed, controlled event on the Town Moor would be the only place to see Eddie Howe, Dan Burn et al show off the Carabao Cup and/or thank Yasir al-Rumayyan for the Saudi Arabian riches that funded success. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Horror as woman is pushed under a train to her death by 'man who escaped from psychiatric unit' in France

The 31-year-old victim, who has not been named, was shoved onto the tracks at the busy Massy-Palaiseau station in Esonne, south of Paris.

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last month This book brings the grim horrors of London’s rental market to life

As Irish writer and journalist Róisín Lanigan publishes her debut novel about a young couple who move into a property too good to be true, Katie Rosseinsky looks into the recent rise of fiction unravelling the nightmarish realities of London’s housing market

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