A seven-year-old boy who died in an explosion in a residential street in Newcastle has been named locally, as his aunt described him as a “beautiful, funny and caring little boy”. Northumbria Police confirmed that a young child had died at the scene of the horrific blast in the Benwell area of the city in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Boy killed in Newcastle house explosion named in reports as second body found - Six people, five adults and a child, were taken to hospital following the incident and a man in his 30s remains in a critical but stable condition.

A seven-year-old boy who was killed in a house explosion in Newcastle has been named and pictured for the first time. Archie York has been described as a "lovely lad", having lost his life in the tragic explosion in Violet Close, Benwell, on Wednesday morning.