All news by author: Poppy Kennedy

The cause of Jennifer Melvin's acute hydrocephalus - which caused a haemorrhagic cerebral infection - remains unclear despite an investigation by a neurology consultant pathologist

Marie Metcalfe is beginning a life sentence after she stabbed older sister Laura to death in a horrific attack outside her home in Hartlepool in a bitter, ongoing feud amongst siblings

Jack Newton was described as a "reckless" and "immature" young man who let his dog viciously bite a woman protecting her pet cats and assaulted a separate woman when she was driving, causing her to crash

At just 33 years old, super-fit Kristopher Hackett suddenly suffered a series of cardiac arrests, causing serious brain damage - now his mum Joan is celebrating his DNR order finally being lifted

A man and a woman have both tragically died in a horrific house fire that ripped through a house in Darlington in the early hours of Saturday morning leaving windows blown out

Danny Brogden is bedbound and unable to talk, walk or eat since suffering a heart attack at work back in 2021 which saw his brain starved of oxygen for about 15 minutes

Henry Rafferty, 22, was making his way home from a night out with his friends when he laid down on the driveway in Hartlepool

Kendra Gibson targeted four shops in less than a week and assaulted three members of staff in Middlesbrough. She threatened to a punch a shop assistant and stab another with a needle

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Hannah Beadnall is waiting to find out whether she'll need a skin graft after a sparkler incident on New Year's Eve left her with painful blistering skin

Cameron Johnson has been sentenced to three years behind bars for biting, punching and strangling his fiancée during two vicious attacks that left her fearing for her life