Ann Macfarlane News Today

What should members of a public body do when it comes time to vote to approve minutes of a meeting that they were not present at?

Our reporters have been sitting in courtrooms across the north and north-east this week and covered a wide variety of cases.

THE class of 2020 finally got to don their caps and gowns when New Collage held a graduation ceremony for two year groups.

THE class of 2020 finally got to don their caps and gowns when New Collage held a graduation ceremony for two year groups.

A disabled pensioner has detailed the shocking medical treatments she underwent as a child, including having her legs repeatedly broken at the age of four.  Ann Macfarlane was born in Norfolk in 1939 and at a young age developed a rare form of inflammatory arthritis called Stills disease, which causes her joints to swell and stiffen.  The daughter of a company director and a hardworking housewife, Ann was hospitalised for the first time at the age of four before being readmitted at the age of...