What a state of affairs: Here's the worst areas in the North East for cheating

Newcastle has been named and shamed as one of the North East’s most popular areas for having an affair.

The city has 19,254 people who are cheating on their partners, claims the website Illicit Encounters.

It has compiled the Infidelity Index 2018, which lists the UK’s most adulterous towns and cities.

It says 6.52 percent of Newcastle’s population is carrying on behind their partner’s backs.

And it’s even worse in Durham where just 5,152 people are having an affair - but it’s more than 8 per-cent of the population.

The statistics place Newcastle as the 10th most cheating city in the whole country on the site’s infidelity index.