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Breaking Port of Dover chaos: holidaymakers face 90 minute waits

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Photographer captures hovering ferry pictured off Sunderland coast

Sunderland Carers Centre staff member Jenna Green, left, is one of three people nationwide to receive a prize after returning to work early during the pandemic after giving birth. Pictured, right, is centre chief executive Amanda Brown.placeholder image

Sunderland mum wins 'everyday heroes' contest

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You could win free ferry trips to France, Belgium and the Netherlands

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Major rescue operation called off after passenger overboard alert declared a hoa...

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Acts announced for this year's North Sea Sounds music cruise with DFDS

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Acts announced for this year's North Sea Sounds music cruise with DFDS

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Acts announced for this year's North Sea Sounds music cruise with DFDS

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Smoove & Turrell announce North Sea Sounds music cruise

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Level 42, OMD and Smoove and Turrell announced for North Sea music cruise

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Guide to Holland's Keukenhof gardens + win a DFDS mini cruise worth £300

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Search for missing DFDS ferry passenger will not resume

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Hartlepool lifeboat joins search for missing ferry passenger

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Eight bargain ways to say I Love You this Valentine's Day

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Line-up announced for DFDS North Sea Sounds cruises

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Travel Review: Whale watching in the North Sea

'A humpback whale? In the North Sea?!' - it may sound fishy, but this majestic species is just one of the cetaceans spotted in waters off the North East coast.

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The people traffickers tried to smuggle 20 illegal immigrants into the UK on a lorry on board a DFDS ferry which arrived at the Port of Tyne.placeholder image

Jail for people traffickers who tried to smuggle 20 illegal immigrants through P...

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Newcastle to Amsterdam ferries looking shipshape after £4.5m makeover

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Smugglers hid Syrian and Albanian immigrants in back of lorry aboard ferry, cour...

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TRAVEL REVIEW: A guide on what to see, eat and drink in Bruges

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REVIEW: Frankie & the Heartstrings, DFDS ferry, somewhere in the North Sea

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Bag a bargain with 2-4-1 cruise offer for North East passengers

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Craig Charles to hit the high note on floating gig

Volunteers, left to right, Rachael Forster, Victoria Humble, Louise Hopkins and Abi Forster, take part in the beach clean at Whitburn Beach.placeholder image

Whitburn beach clean rubbish will become a work of art

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