MP Lola McEvoy completed a tour of the town's primary schools, personally handing out Golden Tickets to every child.

A County Durham sex offender who threatened his victim and other witnesses with violence has been jailed for 13 years.

THERE'S little left of Leasingthorne these days. Its colliery's heyday was in the 1930s, when it employed more than 1,500 men and boys, but when ...

Yvette Cooper said the new tools will enable the criminal justice system to “close the gap” between terror suspects, who can be jailed for life for planning attacks, and individuals not driven by a ...

The British and Irish Lions beat Australia 27-19 in Brisbane on the first step to a first series win since 2013.

BUILT in early Georgian times, Newton House, in Gainford, certainly earns the right to be described as magical – in more ways than one.

The Ketton Ox in Yarm, near Stockton, has bagged hundreds of top reviews on TripAdvisor and been praised for its 'amazing' food.

FROM noisy neighbours to shop lifting and off-road bikes, anti-social behaviour (ASB) continues to be a scourge on our communities. As the MP ...

ROB Edwards insists Hayden Hackney is "fully committed" to Middlesbrough amid strong transfer interest and uncertainty over the midfielder's future. Hackney played 45 minutes at Mansfield on Saturday ...

Councillor Angus Ferguson, Mayor of Ferryhill, has provided an update on his weight loss journey launched on June 18 to raise funds for his ...

Olli Spiller, a 15-year-old from Billingham undergoing treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia at The Great North Children’s Hospital in ...

"Kind and loving" Abbi Armstrong from Shildon has left doctors bewildered for two decades as her family say believe she's "one in ...