REVIEW OF THE YEAR: 2015 IN NEWS

It's a time of year when traditionally we reflect on the last 12 months.

Frances Read looks back at January to April when a dog was making the headlines:

Here's the stories that made the news from May to August. One half of Ant and Dec got married - but it was also a very memorable journey for the father of MH17 victim Liam Sweeney, as he travelled to Holland with our correspondent Frances Read:

This report remembers September to December when the long awaited rugby world cup finally came to the region.

There was also disaster on Teesside with the sudden end of more than a century of steelmaking, as Frances Read reports: