A BLIND cricketer is campaigning to raise the profile of the sport and encourage other partially-sighted people to try it for themselves. Adele Waterfall-Brown, from Darlington, can only see three metres in front of her and is registered blind.
Laura Robson's brilliant US Open run came to an end in the fourth round tonight, despite the teenager saving eight match points against defending champion Sam Stosur. The 18-year-old Londoner had stunned Kim Clijsters and Li Na to reach the last 16,
A POIGNANT memorial took place on a Scottish mountainside yesterday, more than 60 years after a North Yorkshire pilot crashed there. John Brian Lightfoot was 22 when he died when his Gloster Meteor Jet came down in a blizzard in the Bennachie Hills
A TEENAGER was lifted to safety by an RAF search and rescue winchman after he broke his arm in a fall near a North-East viaduct. Emergency services called in a team from RAF Boulmer, Northumberland , on Saturday when the youth became trapped in
A PENSIONER has died after his mobility scooter was involved in a crash with a car. The 81-year-old suffered fatal injuries in the accident in Bedale , North Yorkshire at around 6.20pm this evening. Police say the victim had been travelling
POLICE have recaptured a prisoner who absconded while carrying out community work. Bernard Lee Sharkey, 34, was jailed in 2006 after he was convicted of being part of a gang armed with a baseball bat and samurai sword who laid seige to a home
A NORTH-EAST MP has been branded a "red-neck" after he was mistaken for a controversial Australian political figure with the same name. Grahame Morris, MP for Easington , County Durham, received a barrage of outraged messages on Twitter from Australian
THE North-East is set to become the world leader in developing new cancer drugs, thanks to a donation from the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, it was revealed last night. Scientists at Newcastle University said the £625,000 donation from the North-East
MORE than 23,000 homes and businesses across County Durham will soon benefit from faster broadband thanks to a new programme of improvements. Households in Frosterley, Trimdon, Shildon , Seaham and Beamish are the latest in the county to benefit
A FRIENDSHIP between museums in Britain and Africa is to be celebrated with a new display for rail fans in County Durham. Staff at Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon are set to hold a Sierra Leone Festival. The exhibition is to
FITNESS fans can train outdoors all year round as gym equipment is fitted in to a park thanks to a Big Lottery Fund donation. Ferryhill Town Council has worked with the Friends of Surtees Doorstep Green to secure £10,000 from the Big Lottery Fund
A FUNDRAISING runner is to take part in the Great North Run to boost the work of a charity which helps the world’s poorest people. Ian Hoult, 41, of Crook, is to run the half marathon in aid of Mercy Ships which provides free medical care and humanitarian
A NEW doorstep shopping delivery service is targeting the elderly to help take the hassle out of grocery buying. Durham County Council has worked with Crook-based Dale Care to create the Home Shopping by Dale Care service. The scheme aims to allow
AN invasion of scarecrows took over a County Durham village as it hosted its first scarecrow festival over the weekend. The streets of Sedgefield were dotted with a variety of scarecrows and maps were on hand to guide visitors round the displays.
Sunderland's unbeaten start to the season continued at the Liberty Stadium with a hard-earned point and the Black Cats are now 11/1 to top the division without the big six with Everton 6/4 and Newcastle 9/4 and Fulham and West Brom 12s. Martin O'Neill's
Newcastle United 1 Aston Villa 1 HATEM Ben Arfa came to Newcastle's rescue as they came from behind to salvage a point against Aston Villa. Ben Arfa's sensational second-half strike cancelled out Ciaran Clark's first-half header for a Villa
NEWCASTLE have named an unchanged Premier League line-up for this afternoon's home game with Aston Villa. With Cheik Tiote still nursing a knee injury, Magpies manager Alan Pardew has named the same side that started last weekend's 2-0 defeat at
Bishop Auckland manager Colin Myers admitted that his team’s 1-0 win at South Shields was “scrappy and dirty”. Bishops are in the thick of the title race in fifth place with this win, but Myers said: “It was a scrappy win, and we didn’t play
Esh Winning succeeded where other EBAC Northern League clubs have failed when they beat Tadcaster Albion 3-2 in the first qualifying round of the FA Carlsberg Vase at Waterhouses on Saturday. Esh weren’t fancied beforehand against a team from a
IN THE glorious sunshine, at Darlington Railway Athletic Club, two opposing teams battle it out to win a game of cricket. The players are blind and partially sighted! Lancashire Lions compete with Durham Visually Impaired Cricket Club, to
