A SPECTATOR is refusing to pay a fine after stripping down to his underpants and joining a race at a Highland games. Guy Wilson, from Linthorpe in Middlesbrough, took part in the 800m in his boxer shorts at the Lonach Highland Gathering in Aberdeenshire
COLIN Turkington is tonight celebrating becoming the 2009 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Champion following a nail-biting final race of the season on the world-famous Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit today. Three drivers - Turkington, Fabrizio Giovanardi
NORTH Yorkshire teen motorsport sensation Sarah Moore was this afternoon crowned champion of the Ginetta Junior Championship, making her Britain’s top female racing driver at the age of just 15. Sarah, from Tockwith near York, clinched the title at the
In September I completed training in collaborative practice. Six solicitors in Tees Valley, along with many others across the North East region and the country nationally, are now offering a new way to divorce. It’s a revolutionary approach which
HATE CRIMES TACKLED: Building Confidence, Creating Community is the theme of an event on Thursday at Malton and Norton Rugby Club, which builds on the launch earlier this year of Third Party Hate Incident Reporting Centres in Ryedale. The event will
THE North Yorkshire Moors Railway is to host it’s annual re-enactment of the events of 1943 in Railway at War. The event, now in its 17th year, is a re-creation of the Home Front and commemorates the part played by Britain's railways during the Second
FREE skips will be placed around an East Durham town as part of a campaign to crack down on littering and flytipping. Durham County Council and North Peterlee Pathfinder are providing the skips in an effort to encourage residents to dispose of their
HUNDREDS of scouts braved gale-force winds and rain to enjoy a successful activity weekend. About 750 Scouts and Explorer Scouts descended on Moor House Adventure Centre at Rainton Gate, near Durham, for their annual Camp Confido. Scout leaders said
PARENTS and carers in a north Durham community will be able to learn how to talk easily with their children about sex and relationships with the help of a group of newly qualified trainers. The eight new trainers have all completed Level 3 of the Speakeasy
SERVICES which support unpaid carers in County Durham are to receive a major funding boost, it has been announced. A new joint funding arrangement between Durham County Council and NHS County Durham will mean an increase in funding for core carer
RESIDENTS, businesses and community groups are being urged to take advantage of a new project designed to spearhead the environmental regeneration of a vast area of north Durham. The Green Futures initiative, run by Groundwork North East, is aiming to
RESIDENTS of east Durham are being given the chance to take part in an intergenerational project aiming to explore community life past and present. The initiative called Who do we think we are? will bring together people young and old to discuss
A WOMAN was airlifted to hospital after being hit by a tree brought down by high winds. A mountain rescue team and air ambulance were called to an isolated area near Keld, in Swaledale, on Saturday afternoon. A group of people training for their Duke
TWO people have been arrested following a failed heist on a bank in Redcar. A man, 44, and a 26-year-old woman, both local to the area, are being questioned by Cleveland Police today on suspicion of attempted robbery. A man, believed to have been brandishing
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a head-on crash last night which left a teenage motorist seriously injured. An 18-year-old man sustained serious head and leg injuries in the accident on Durham Road, Middlestone Moor, near Spennymoor, County Durham
THREE train passengers were taken to hospital with minor injuries as a result of a collision at Darlington railway station. A Northern Rail train collided with the back of a National Express East Coast Mainline service at platform four just
FIVE people arrested following the death of a ten-year-old boy in a hit-and-run incident have been released on bail. Sean Robert Harry Hamilton, from York, was pronounced dead at York District Hospital following the incident on the city's Holgate
