An emergency call-out prompted by a red flare being spotted above the mouth of the River Tyne turned out to be a pyrotechnic ...

Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade was called out to the party over reports of a red smoke flare - but it turned out the flare ...

A gender reveal party sparked a rescue operation on Saturday after a pink flare was mistaken for a distress signal. Tynemouth ...

Rescue crews were paged to a boat after a ‘red smoke flare’ was set off - but it was actually just parents-to-be having a ...

An emergency call-out prompted by a red flare being spotted above the mouth of the River Tyne turned out to be a pyrotechnic that had been let off at a "gender reveal" party. Tynemouth Volunteer ...

A pink flare was fired from the boat to reveal the gender of the baby, but was mistaken for a distress signal, sparking a ...

emergency services discovered the situation was far less serious than first feared. A spokesperson for the brigade said: “The team found that the ‘red’ flare was in fact ‘pink’, and the ...

The boat, which HM Coastguard had been told appeared "out of control" and had fired a flare - but it was in fact carrying out ...