North East leaders have backed plans to inject £70 million into innovative businesses across the region. Mayor Kim McGuinness and council leaders across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham ...

Police officers have vowed to make Durham City centre a safer place after new measures to crackdown on anti-social behaviour were approved.

Durham City Cricket Club have reflected on its sense of community and building for its future after winning the Durham North East Cricket League (DNECL) title for the first time in 37 years.

A teenager who kicked a door during efforts to storm a pub wrongly believed to contain English Defence League members has been handed a 20-month custodial term. Haris Ghaffar knew that others within a ...

A popular coffee shop in Darlington will be shut until October, as the owners have gone on their honeymoon. Echo 3, in Clarks Yard, Darlington, will be closed for more than two weeks, expected to ...

Irish national Thomas Kavanagh was about to face trial at the Old Bailey, but pleaded guilty to a string of charges at the 11th hour on Wednesday.

A hoard of coins that was unearthed by a metal detectorist who was inspired by Indiana Jones has been sold at auction for £132,865. The collection, found by George Ridgway in a recently harvested ...

The jury at his trial at St Albans Crown Court previously heard Cummings is accused of using phone apps called Life360 and Team Viewer to track the first complainant’s location, as well as creating ...

A delayed visa application meant Manchester City were without Khadija Shaw for Wednesday’s Champions League qualifier against Paris FC. The club’s record goalscorer was a notable and surprising ...

She said people were ‘being nasty about my confidence or nasty about my weight’ which had been ‘really painful’.

Darlington's MP Lola McEvoy has launched her Online Safety Forum campaign to keep young people safe online and on social media.

The police watchdog will assess a claim by Sex Education actor Reece Richards that he was sprayed with an incapacitating liquid during an “unlawful arrest” by the Metropolitan Police. The Independent ...