The station is located on an estate where the Meadow Well Riots took place in 1991, and although the area has significantly improved since then, the estate still suffers from crime and social problems and the station has often been the scene of a number of criminal acts.
Over the years the newspaper has reported some of the biggest stories to hit the north east including the Meadow Well Riots on September 9 1991, the decline of the ship yards on the Tyne, and the long-running police investigation into the Sara Cameron murder - the 21-year-old Finnish student found dead in Whitley Bay on April 28 2001.
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