Fiona is a member of the live reporting team covering the Sunderland Echo, Shields Gazette, Hartlepool Mail and Northumberland Gazette areas.
A diner which relaunched after an arson attack has made a promise to return once again after another fire broke out at its new premises.
Every council area in the North East has signed up to a mass testing programme for the coronavirus.
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