Tyne and Wear

American  

[weer] / wɪər /

noun

1. a metropolitan county in N England.

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Tyne and Wear British  

noun

1. a metropolitan county of NE England, administered since 1986 by the unitary authorities of Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Gateshead, South Tyneside, and Sunderland. Area: 540 sq km (208 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

A Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said it also sent crews to help at the scene.

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After Samantha Madgin was murdered in Tyne and Wear in 2007, her sister Carly Barrett and mother Alison Magdin set up Samantha's Legacy to educate young people about the dangers of carrying knives.

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Jessica Thorpe, from Newcastle, was working as a nurse for the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust when she was suspended after a patient claimed she was pregnant with his child.

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The BBC gained rare access to BAE Systems' artillery factory in Washington Tyne and Wear, where it makes thousands of the 155 millimetre shells that have been in such high demand and short supply in Ukraine's resistance to Russia's invasion.

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"As a result of the fire, sadly a person we believe to be 14-year-old Layton Carr was found deceased by our firefighters," a spokesperson for Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service said.

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