The January round of league games at the Game Time Central Venue League (CVL) took place this week with The Losers in the junior league extending their lead to 8 points at the top of the table after winning all 4 games. 13 year old Marshall Patterson
Last Wednesday in the company of fellow members of our local business club, I enjoyed a tour behind the scenes at Darlington's Civic Theatre. As well as getting to stand on the stage, we peeped at areas the audience never gets to see whilst the manager
TWO people killed when their helicopter crashed while trying to take off from a luxury golf resort have been named by police tonight as husband and wife Paul and Linda Spencer from Brighouse, West Yorkshire. The middle-aged couple died when the private
SPURS head coach Juande Ramos refused to be drawn on whether Jonathan Woodgate is poised to move to White Hart Lane. There have been reports that the Middlesbrough defender has secured a three-and-a-half-year deal and passed a medical with Spurs, who
NEARLY 450 drugs finds have been discovered in a North-East prison in the last three years, it has been revealed. Between November 2004 and 2007, there were 443 incidents in which drugs - both illegal substances and unlawfully held prescriptions - were
A NORTH-EAST double lung transplant patient is to marry the medical receptionist who visited him throughout his treatment. Cystic fibrosis sufferer Anthony Peart, of Hartlepool, met Lynn Sharp at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, while he was waiting
Two crew members were rescued after their fishing vessel suffered a fouled propeller in high seas off Sunderland earlier today. Volunteers from Sunderland's RNLI lifeboat Wolseley were called out this morning when the the 33ft fishing vessel ran into
A PENSIONER who attacked his wife with a metal bar after a dispute over his canaries has walked free from court. Former police officer Oliver Clarkson, 71, broke into his former marital home in order to see his birds. But after feeding them, the chairman
NOVAK Djokovic became Serbia's first ever grand slam champion today after beating the unseeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final of the Australian Open. The third seed from Belgrade conceded the first set to the world number 38 but rallied to register
ONE ticketholder won the jackpot in Saturday's Lotto draw, Camelot said. The jackpot was £18,992,109, making the lucky recipient the eighth largest Lotto winner. The winning numbers drawn were 13, 43, 02, 06, 38 and 01. The bonus number was 24. Set
A GLOSSY council magazine is being sent to more than 3,000 homes outside Darlington borough. Heighington councillor Gerald Lee has discovered that out of the 3,240 homes in the DL4 postcode which receive copies of Town Crier, only five are within the
HARSH lessons must be learnt from the construction of Darlingtons pedestrian heart, the cost of which has soared more than £2.2m over budget, councillors have warned. The detrimental impact to businesses in the centre of Darlington and the costs incurred
A DEAL has been reached to keep a struggling community centre open for at least the next six months. Trustees of Alington House community association have cut the maintenance costs for their building, on North Bailey, Durham, and increased room hire
A FORMER Newcastle United footballer has unveiled plans for a new golf development in the shadow of Auckland Castle and Binchester Roman Fort. Allan Barker's company, Castle Golf, is building an 18-hole golf course with a restaurant, clubhouse, health
MIDDLESBROUGH and England defender Jonathan Woodgate has held "advanced talks" with Newcastle United and Tottenham about a move from Middlesbrough. And, after much deliberation, Woodgate is understood to have decided against an £8m return to Tyneside
