Overview

• A man in his 40s was arrested on suspicion of GBH with intent after a city‑centre attack behind a Scotswood Road premises, with the victim, also in his 40s, in a critical condition at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and a cordon and forensics tent set up on Westmorland Lane.
• Officers are investigating a separate suspected assault near the Powerhouse nightclub on Westmorland Road in which a teenage male suffered a serious head injury, and they have opened a major incident portal for witnesses and video submissions (ref: NP-20250913-0184).
• A man in his 20s remains in a critical but stable condition after being thrown from a Sur‑Ron off‑road motorcycle in a collision with a car in Jarrow, with police appealing for dashcam footage (ref: NP-20250913-0396).
• Road policing teams responded to a three‑vehicle crash on the A1 near Alnwick that sent three people to hospital and drew an air ambulance, and to an earlier A68 collision near Colwell in which a man in his 70s later died, with appeals for dashcam and CCTV continuing.
• A man in his 40s has been charged with drink‑driving after a Coast Road collision at the Corner House junction in Heaton, where a stationary car was rear‑ended and later caught fire and a woman in her 20s was treated for minor injuries and discharged.