Ian Pattinson endued a typically up-and-down 24 hours on his second day of competitive action at the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy. Pattinson was unable to make the start line for the first of two outings yesterday in the Monster Energy Supersport race,
Yorkshire are still unsure as to how long they will have Mitchell Starc as their overseas player for. The White Rose county are in dialogue with Cricket Australia about the 22-year-old's availability ahead of and during his country's A tour of England
BISHOP Auckland's Ian Pattinson has set his sights on completing every race he enters at this year's Isle of Man Tourist Trophy after a fine start on Saturday. Pattinson finished 18th in the opening outing of the 2012 TT, fuelled by Monster Energy, the
Hutton Magna's Olly Tweedy completed his zipwire across the Tees this morning. No ordinary zipwire this, it stretched from Scar Top in Barnard Castle across the Tees to the Startforth side, a distance of some 200 metres. With generous sponsorship
The Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations at Durham Cathedral were enriched with a sterling performance led by The Tallis Scholars. The evening took in music from the renaissance to contemporary and included the debut of two prize-winning works
A PUB landlord has praised customers who closed a busy road allowing the air ambulance to pick up a diner who had suffered a fatal heart attack. However, Christian Burns, landlord of the Colliery Inn, in Crook, County Durham, questioned why police
A FAMILY are desperately trying to raise £72,000 to send a two-year-old boy to the US for a life-altering operation to help him walk for the first time. Oliver McConnell, whose grandmother lives in Catterick Village, North Yorkshire, was delivered
A MOTHER whose son has battled cancer is urging women to join the fight against the disease by signing up for the Race for Life. Jocelyn Atherton, from Darlington, has issued the rallying cry of “it’s us versus cancer” to mothers, daughters,
Darlington have taken their latest step towards rebuilding by making six signings, which include two former Quakers returning to the club. Martin Gray and a four-strong backroom staff were appointed last weekend, and the manager has wasted
It has been a right royal knees-up over the past few days with the region marking the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. THE NORTHERN ECHO reports on the ongoing celebrations. In Firthmoor, Darlington hundreds of people attended a Jubilee street party
TWO teenagers are behind bars after “a night of madness” in which they went on a drunken rampage, culminating in an arson attack outside an elderly woman’s home. Richard Addison and James Anthony Johnson were sent to a young offenders’ institution
THE owner of a bar facing a licensing review after a teenage party at the venue said the incident was blown out of proportion. David Storer, co-owner of The Grange, in Grange Road, Darlington, said the party, held during the February halfterm
A SAUCY cabaret club which promised to bring Vegas-style glamour to a sleepy cathedral city has closed after only five weeks’ trading. The Eazy Street cabaret club opened in the former Loft nightclub, in North Road, Durham City, in late April,
THE extent of Durham's extraordinary fall from grace was underlined on Saturday by the fact that they emerged from the agonising two-wicket defeat by Lancashire with minus one point. Having four points deducted for their slow over rate is unprecedented
BEN Stokes' outstanding century against Lancashire will only increase the likelihood of him missing a chunk of Durham's season. After featuring in the England one-day squad last year, he needed to prove to the selectors that he had fully recovered from
EVERYONE, at whatever level of football, has been heckled by someone or other. Professionals get it in the neck every week from the stands, Northern League players from the terraces and so down to Sunday League players on the Rec, who may be on the
Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale has heaped praise on his bowlers despite the fact his side couldn't grind out a win against Northamptonshire at Headingley in the LV=County Championship on Saturday. When bad light forced the players off with 22 overs remaining
