Overview
- Family and friends marked the anniversary with a public tribute for the seven-year-old, reflecting ongoing community support and grief.
- Northumbria Police report 11 cannabis shatter labs dismantled since the explosion, compared with six in 2023 and one in 2022.
- The council will help create Archie’s Nature Trail at Parish Ponds in Woolsington, which the family hopes to have ready by May.
- A council–Safe Newcastle training resource in development will share the York family’s account to raise national awareness of butane-extraction dangers.
- The 2024 blast, caused by shatter production below the family’s home, killed Archie and Jason Laws, displaced 142 people from 51 homes, and resulted in a 14-year sentence for Reece Galbraith.