THEY might not admit it now, but when Adama Traore and Albert Adomah swapped clubs in August 2016, there were plenty of Middlesbrough fans who felt their club had got the worst side of the deal. Report: Boro lose 1-0 on aggregate at Villa
IT is Championship football again for Middlesbrough next season after a hugely frustrating night when Tony Pulis’ team failed to live up to the occasion at Villa Park. Aston Villa, ahead courtesy of Mile Jedinak’s poorly conceded header in the
LOOKING for a day out and love nature? The Himalayan Gardens and Sculpture Park at Grewelthorpe, near Ripon, North Yorkshire, are well worth a visit. Stunningly beautiful and peaceful - don't think I've ever seen such an array of vivid colours
Chief Sports Writer Scott Wilson reports live from Villa Park as Middlesbrough take on Aston Villa. Kick-off: 7.45pm Tweets by Scottwilsonecho
TONY PULIS has given 20-year-old defender Dael Fry the nod to start for Middlesbrough in tonight’s Championship play-off semi-final decider at Aston Villa. Boro are looking to overturn Villa’s slender one goal advantage at Villa Park in the absence
Newcastle captain Mark Wilson has warned reigning champions Exeter to beware the "unknown quantity" as they prepare for Saturday's Aviva Premiership semi-final showdown.The sides will meet for the fourth time this season at Sandy Park with
A COMMUNITY group for men is looking to welcome new members.Delves Lane Village Hall, near Consett, hosts sessions on Thursdays, from 1.30pm-3pm.The group started when five local men approached the Wellbeing for Life service for support to set up a regular
A GOAT which got its head stuck between a metal fence had a lucky escape. The goat became stuck on Saturday, May 12, at about 5pm in Norton, near Stockton, when a member of the public called the RSPCA. The goats were kept in an enclosure but
A BOY accused of planning to carry out a mass atrocity at his school had “viable” recipes for explosives and incendiary devices – including napalm – written into his diary, a court heard. The jury at Leeds Crown Court heard from expert witnesses
A CELEBRATED swimmer is devastated after callous thieves reportedly stole her prosthetic leg ‘Pogo’ from a riverbank on Monday. Kate Sunley will have to wait at least six weeks to have a new leg created after her made to measure limb was taken
AN MP has secured a meeting with a Government minister to discuss concerns about a school in her constituency.Bishop Auckland MP Helen Goodman raised the problem of Whitworth Park School, in Spennymoor, closing its sixth form in the House of Commons on
A BROKEN down train stuck on tracks in Darlington caused lengthy delays for rail passengers. Fewer trains were able to run on some lines and services through Darlington Railway Station were subject to disruption on all routes. The train broke
LAST week we featured Joyce Malcolm’s picture of a Walters & Johnson bus parked in Old Elvet in Durham City – at the far right of the picture is “the hanging balcony” which was put up to capitalise on the lucrative entertainment occasioned by public
A MAN was taken to hospital after his car broke through a barrier and plunged down an embankment becoming lodged on a flight of steps. A Northumbria Police spokesperson said: “We received a report of a one-vehicle collision just off the Coast Road
POLICE have named a woman murdered in her own home. She is 34-year-old Jessica Patel. Ms Patel was found with significant injuries in a house on The Avenue in Middlesbrough last night and was pronounced dead at the scene. Neighbours
POLICE have released an image of a woman they want to speak to after a hate crime in Newcastle. The incident happened in the early hours of Friday, April 6, when a woman approached a taxi driver at the taxi rank outside the Centre of Life on Westmorland
A MAN has been arrested after a crime spree in Teesdale last night.The man has been arrested on suspicion of burglary after three business and a garage were targeted in the early hours.It is believed the suspect carried out three burglaries in Barnard
FILM fans were treated to two screenings ahead of Robin Askwith’s triumphant return to The Forum. The actor delivered his one-man show for a third time at Darlington Film Club. The evening started with a showing of Ripper Tour, a new horror
AT 1pm, 150 years ago, the great and the good entrained at Darlington and were soon entranced by the first railway journey into one of the country’s most beautiful, and remote, areas. At Barnard Castle, the Darlington contingent budged up in their
A SECOND Durham rugby player has died in Sri Lanka. Thomas Baty, 26, has been in hospital since Sunday and has now died. Thomas Howard, 25, from Durham city, died on Sunday. Both men were admitted to hospital on Sunday after they started
FIVE people are being hunted by police after raiding an enclosed yard. A silver 4x4 containing the five managed to gain access to the yard in Pen Court on Standard Way, Northallerton, on May 4. And between 9.41pm and 10.18pm they searched the
TWO nights of police activity in a town plagued by alcohol-fuelled youth disorder have been hailed a success.Operation Staysafe was launched in response to escalating anti-social behaviour in Sedgefield, where large groups of young people from across
SOCIAL work charity Frontline is hosting an interactive workshop looking at the needs of disabled children from a safeguarding perspective. The event on Wednesday is at The Education Centre at Stockton Sixth Form College between 10am and 3pm.
A PENSIONER has hailed the return of her stolen purse and the precious family photographs it held as a miracle. Audrey Chapman’s purse contained pictures of her late husband and daughter when it was taken from her handbag while she was shopping
POLICE have dropped their investigation into a shocking act of road rage that caused a terrified woman to flee for her life. A bat-wielding attacker remains at large almost four months after smashing up the car of a motorist who had stopped in
TWO men have been jailed for their part in a violent mob attack which left two men fighting for their lives. Kenneth Burton and Jonathan Grimes were part of gang of men armed with an axe, baseball bats and a machete who chased and attacked the
HE was a trailblazer on the bike and Graeme Obree continues to challenge norms off it. The 52-year-old, nicknamed 'The Flying Scotsman', once grappled with depression and attempted suicide. Now Obree, who twice held the world hour record and
COACHING sessions are proving to be just what the doctor ordered as students receive expert help to fulfil their dreams of becoming leading professionals.Students from Barnard Castle School and Teesdale School, who are interested in medicine, dentistry
THE editorial comment on Saturday (Echo, May 12) was unbelievably disappointing. Its entire tone was downbeat and implying that the Tees Valley mayor, Ben Houchen, has done nothing but spin and score political points all year. Given the initiatives he
I READ with some amazement Councillor Bill Dixon (Echo, May 12) waxing lyrical about what has been achieved by Darlington Borough Council’s departing CEO, Ada Burns, behind the scenes. As a public service employee, commanding such a generous salary, I
IF ever there’s a royal hatch, match, dispatch or scandal I keep the television and radio off for at least two weeks. I still get my Northern Echo but remove all pictures and reports of the above at the newsagents and put them in the rubbish bin. I will
RESPONDING to Jo Jones (HAS, May 9), I offer mitigation for our “determination to spread”. Life is tough for all creatures, but if (as a human) you are fur-less, have rubbish eyesight and endowed with muscles barely sufficient to take on a sabre-tooth
I CANNOT for the life of me understand why so many local Labour MPs are addicted to the European Union. The argument that so many jobs in the North-East depend on the EU is a complete distortion of the truth. It would be foolish to principally blame the
A DRUNKEN knifeman who was bundled out of store by a shopkeeper after a bungled robbery attempt has been jailed. Alcoholic Jeremy Crompton had been on a three day drinking spree before he tried to hold up Costcutter in Chester-le-Street with a
THE East Coast rail franchise could be scrapped this week, according to reports. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling is set to announce who will operate trains on the line between London and Edinburgh in the wake of Virgin Trains East Coast withdrawing
TWO pub poker players are heading to the bright lights of Las Vegas this month to compete to be crowned the UK Pub Poker champion.Liam Hamilton of the Wheatsheaf on Yarm Road and Dawn Burnip of the Red Lion on Priestgate Road are Darlington’s qualifiers
A POPULAR restaurant at a Richmond tourism complex has closed unexpectedly after a bailiff possession notice was placed on it. Season’s Restaurant, based in the former platform space of the Station, Richmond, was closed on Tuesday morning with
A ROLLER hockey team is sporting a smart new look thanks to support from a social housing provider.Spectrum Roller Hockey Team, based in Willington, received £480 from County Durham Housing Group to replace youngsters’ faded and ill-fitting kits with
WHEN Gareth Southgate was promoted to the position of Middlesbrough manager in the summer of 2006, he sat his former team-mates down in a meeting room at Rockliffe Park. “I know this is going to be awkward for you because you call me ‘Gareth’ or ‘Gate
CHILDREN’S favourite The Gruffalo, a Turner Prize winning artist and the site of a 1930s hard labour camp have become the focus of a heated row in the heart of a huge forest. Low Dalby in the 1930s Residents of Low Dalby in the North York
DOZENS of firefighters tackled a major fire in a scrap yard in Sunderland on Monday evening with a large plume of smoke visible from miles around. A spokesperson for the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service said emergency services were alerted
A WOMAN in her mid-thirties lies on the side of a bustling Indian road, half covered by a blanket, crawling with maggots. Her infected head wound needs urgent attention; you can smell it, but nobody stops to help. After 20 years of rescuing and supporting
A MAN is pulling on his trainers to take part in his latest challenge and this time it is for a charity incredibly close to his heart.Keld O'Shea is tackling the Windermere Marathon in aid of Real Life Options as a way of saying thank you to the charity
A SCIENTIFIC study has shown that sharks are music fans. Researchers at Australia's Macquarie University Fish Lab show that music - especially jazz - helps attract sharks to feeding stations.
TWO people who were protesting at the site of an opencast coal mine have been arrested. The protesters used a lock-on device to form a human barrier at the gates to the Bradley site, between Leadgate and Dipton, near Consett, County Durham.
A GROUP of youths have been found drinking alcohol and behaving anti-socially in the rose garden in South Park. The East Neighbourhood Police team, of Darlington Police, reported that the number of youths congregating in the garden has increased
A WOMAN alleged to have been at the centre of a deadly love triangle is facing incitement-related charges ten months after a murder. Sarah Bramley is said to have sent a photograph of her performing a sex act on another man to her ex-partner and
MATTHEW BATES is the second youngest managerial appointment in Hartlepool United’s history, and is determined to repay the faith shown in him.Bates, 31, took caretaker stewardship at Pools for the last 13 games of the season, but has now been tasked with
THE county town of North Yorkshire is celebrating the silver anniversary of its links with a town in northern France.Northallerton has been twinned with Ormesson-sur-Marne, a small town to the east of Paris, since 1993. And the town twinning association
RAFAEL BENITEZ has ruled out a summer return to Napoli, with Newcastle United skipper Jamaal Lascelles urging Mike Ashley to do ‘whatever it takes’ to keep the Magpies manager on Tyneside.Benitez’s representatives are due to hold further talks with Lee
IN many ways, Jack Grealish and Adama Traore are cut from the same cloth. Both are 22, both were on the fringe of things as Aston Villa crashed out of the Premier League, and both are regarded as mercurial midfield talents who can infuriate as well as
TONY PULIS has warned Aston Villa they would be wrong to focus all their defensive attention on Adama Traore ahead of this evening’s play-off second leg, and is confident Middlesbrough boast sufficient attacking options to fire themselves to Wembley.Boro
DETAILS of a programme of investment to help regenerate a town centre have been revealed.Work to breathe new life into Stanley is continuing with the completion of improvements on Front Street and an extension into the Clifford Road retail park.As well
THE Durham Miners’ Association has clarified its position after reportedly telling five MPs they would not be invited to the Durham Miners Gala. The move was widely interpreted as a ban for Labour MPs Phil Wilson (Sedgefield), Paul Williams (Stockton
THIS week 15 years ago, a taxi driver was celebrating after winning the national lottery. John Henderson, a father-of-three from Newcastle scooped £553,689 in the lottery draw just three weeks after his fellow cabbie, Bob Frazer won £14m.He said Mr Frazer
DARLINGTON'S dreams of promotion from the fourth tier of English football came crashing down, ten years ago this week after a play-off penalty shoot out defeat to Rochdale.The side threw away a two-goal advantage and with it a glorious chance of a
AN ARCHIVIST will give a talk about how surnames are passed along the family and at what point they started to be inherited in the way they are today.Dawn Layland, an archivist with the Durham County Record Office, will lead a naming traditions sessions
AN urgent call for more than 400 new foster families in the North-East has been made by a leading charity.According to The Fostering Network, 450 new foster families in the region need to be found in the coming year to make sure children's specific
VOLUNTEERS behind a North-East shopping event are hoping to raise a record amount for charity to mark its 30th anniversary.The Durham Shopping Extravaganza, one of the longest running charity events in the region, has raised more than £400,000.Organisers
FOUR budding boxers are preparing to head across the Irish Sea to take part in an international competition.Bishop Auckland Boxing Club will be represented when the fighters compete in the Monkstown International Box Cup in Ireland next month.Alex Pickering
FIVE-YEARS-AGO this week, The Northern Echo revealed that Cleveland Bridge had won a £35m contract that will transform lives on a tropical island and secure the firm's future.The Darlington firm signed a deal with the government of Sri Lanka to build
THE whole of this week is dedicated to increasing the understanding of food allergies, a condition which has seen the number of cases double in the last decade. Thankfully the number of deaths has dropped due to increased public awareness and the requirement
POLICE have launched a new campaign - 'If you saw what I saw' - in a bid to shock motorists into driving more safely.It will highlight the experiences of officers and staff in North Yorkshire who have to deal with the consequences of collisions
BUDDING cricketers donned their whites in glorious sunshine at the weekend. Eight teams gathered at Norton Cricket Club, near Stockton, to compete for the first ever Tees Valley Cup and the £250 prize. Omar Rashid, a former Pakistan international
THEY usually pay tribute to the role miners played in shaping their community back home but this year Thrislington Banner Group will also honour the part they played at war.When the group, based in West Cornforth, near Ferryhill, marches in Durham Miners
A NEW pro-European group has been set up in North Yorkshire to mobilise opposition to the Government’s Brexit plans and press for a new referendum on the deal.North Yorkshire for Europe, is staging a series of events across the county to promote public
A WELL-known pub in the Yorkshire Dales has gone on the market.The Bolton Arms in Redmire is for sale at an asking price of £600,000.Originally a farmhouse, the traditional Dales pub boasts two main trading areas and an enclosed garden with views over
A CHALLENGE to inspire young people and encourage them to give something back to their communities has proved so popular it’s being launched for the sixth year.North Yorkshire Police’s Lifestyle Challenge is for youngsters aged ten to 17and runs over
A PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition inspired by months of research into life during the First World War has opened. The display, which has been put together by the Wider Worlds and Cheesy Waffles Projects, based at Belmont Community Centre, in Durham, is
A COUNCIL has been condemned after it emerged the authority was not planning to tell elected councillors for 11 months about the findings of a highly critical report stating it was failing to be sufficiently open with residents. A report sent by auditors
Rachel Shenton, who wrote and starred in the Oscar-winning short film The Silent Child, explains why she is backing Local Newspaper Week, which started yesterday “I AM a huge supporter of local newspapers because they do so much good for the communities
A MOTORIST responsible for an accident in which an elderly passenger in another car was injured is facing his first prison sentence. The warning was given to Luke Michael Todd after he admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving during
DECISIONS on controversial housing developments are being made by councillors who are unaware of all the necessary information, it has been claimed.Opposition Darlington Borough councillors have highlighted a bizarre situation surrounding planning applications
A VOLUNTEER is attending the Prince Charles’ 70th birthday garden party at Buckingham Palace. Margaret Fox-Baldwin, a volunteer from Durham Samaritans, based in Sutton Street, Durham, is attending the event next Tuesday. Ms Fox-Baldwin, from
KYNREN’S role in reviving public pageantry will be the focus of a free public lecture. Dr Mark Freeman will discuss the similarities between Bishop Auckland’s live open air historical production and pageants as part of the Insights lecture series
YOUR home is being watched and you are under surveillance, according to scammers attempting to fleece people across the region.Fraudsters are calling members of the public in a bid to convince them that they will be arrested if they do not respond to
A MAN who suffered from depression over a 30 year period has teamed up with his local health authority to make a film to help others and mark Mental Health Awareness Week.Ian Cartwright worked with the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group to create
SCREEN star Dame Joan Collins is bringing her one-woman show to North Yorkshire.Joan Collins Unscripted will be at the Grand Opera House in York on September 19.The London-born actress and author will reveal stories and secrets from her long career and
A CRASH on the A66 has prompted a police appeal. A black Volkswagen Golf hit a barrier on the A66 westbound in Middlesbrough, between Newport and the A19. No one was injured in the crash at 1.55pm on Sunday. A grey Toyota Yaris was driving
Q With the recent hot weather, I’m worried that my six-year-old daughter may become dehydrated. How do I know if she’s okay?CharlotteA As summer approaches, and with the promise of more hot weather, it is important for us all to stay well hydrated, especially
AN MP has pressed the Government over inequalities in dental care.Dr Paul Williams said in parts of his Stockton South constituency children were more than twice as likely to have teeth removed than the national average.Despite this he said local dentists
YOUNGSTERS from a County Durham village have sent an urgent letter to the Royal family with some last-minute fashion advice for the future princess. Fashion-concious children in Bishop Middleham, near Sedgefield, designed a range of dresses for
A POPULAR local nature reserve with an enviable record is set to expand with a further 100 acres being dedicated to wildlife conservation. The Nosterfield reserve, in the Hambleton district, will grow to more than 250 acres and include two new lakes,
RARELY have the Conservatives suffered such damaging and draining internal turmoil as is the case now. The bad blood, which has been spreading through the party, is fast degenerating into open warfare.It has generally been the case in the past that the
