Police Hunt Pair Over Cadet Beheading Threat

Police are searching for two men after female army cadets reported they were threatened with beheading outside an Army Reserve centre. The occupants of the car are thought to have asked the two teenagers "Are you in the Army?", before shouting threats as they drove past in Alexandra Road. The alleged reference to beheading has chilling echoes of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby who was attacked in Woolwich, London, in May 2013. Northumbria Police have stepped up patrols in the area, f