Houghton-le-Spring

Kaylee Davidson-Olley, from Houghton-le-Spring, who had transplant surgery at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital in 1987, said lives were continuing to be lost.

Staged at the Sunderland Live Arena, in Houghton-le-Spring, tickets for the trail cost £22 per child and £11 per adult, the women told the BBC.

Another man died after being attacked by a suspected bully XL in October near Houghton-le-Spring, a day after a toddler was taken to hospital in London after being bitten by a dog thought to be the same breed.

Ian Langley originally from Liverpool was fatally wounded in Maple Terrace in Shiney Row, near Houghton-le-Spring, on Tuesday.

Officers received a report that a dog had injured a 54-year-old in Maple Terrace in Shiney Row, near Houghton-le-Spring, at 19:00 BST on Tuesday.