POLICE are appealing for witnesses after two teenage girls were injured in a hit-and-run. The girls aged 15 and 16, were hit by a small dark vehicle - possibly a Vauxhall Corsa - on the crossing outside Meadowside Primary School, on Halfpenny Lane
A PENSIONER has proved it’s never too late to learn a new skill by mastering the guitar at the age of 83. Brian Richards earned a standing ovation from family and friends at his first public performance earlier this month when he joined a professional
THE body of a man has been found in a river in York, North Yorkshire Police confirmed tonight. The body was discovered at about 5pm today in the River Foss at Foss Bank, near to the entrance to Sainsbury's. A statement released by North Yorkshire
A TRUST FUND a dying mother set aside for the care of her Down’s Syndrome daughter was fleeced by a conman who had posed as a friend of the family. Widower Trevor Lazaro has described how David Reid groomed his family for several years, knowing
A CALLOUS conman, who cruelly fleeced an estimated £3.5m from friends and clients in an long-running investment scam, has been jailed for six years. Police described the actions of David Reid as “disgusting” after he admitted stealing “generations
A SCHOOL has hosted a soup lunch in aid of charity. St Godric’s RC Primary School, in Newton Hall, Durham City, welcomed parents, grandparents and carers to a simple soup lunch to support Cafod, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development.
THE Reduced Shakespeare Company will present The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) at Durham’s Gala Theatre next month (Thursday, April 3). The comedy show, on Thursday, April 3, is part of a national tour, running until late April.
A FAMILY dentist has made good on a promise made to a sports-mad schoolboy 14 years ago - by buying a toothbrush for every child at his former school. Dentist Paddy Jones made the wager with a young John Baines - then a keen runner - that he would
AMERICAN singers, songwriters, dancers and actors have been encouraging North-East children to discover their creative side. The 45-strong Young Americans group are spending three days working with youngsters at Durham Johnston School, in Durham
EVENTS have been taking place in the region for this year's Sport Relief, to raise money for charity projects across Britian and worldwide. Pupils and staff at at Sunnydale Community College in Shildon, County Durham, joined in a sponsored run
The village hall at Hilton, near Stokesley, will play host to a jumble sale on April 6, from 10am to noon. All proceeds will go to the village hall and church.
NORTH-EAST workers will lose their jobs after a women's clothing retailer fell into administration. Administrators say 19 workers at Internacionale UK in Gateshead will be made redundant. The move is part of eight closures at the troubled high
THE funeral of a North-East soldier killed in Afghanistan is to be held next week. Family and friends of Sapper Adam Moralee, from Ryton, Gateshead, will say their final farewells on Friday. Sapper Moralee, who served with 32 Engineer Regiment
STUDENTS have been at the sharp end of preparations for an African adventure. Darlington School of Mathematics and Science pupils were given yellow fever jabs in the run up to the academy’s first ever trip to the continent. Twenty-one students
AN ART exhibition in a village hall has been hailed as a success. Peter Sarginson’s collection of contemporary paintings, Time and Tide, was launched in the exhibition space in the new village hall at Grewelthorpe, near Masham, on Saturday, March
BOWLING EVENT: Spennymoor Indoor Bowling Club will celebrate its 50th anniversary tomorrow (Saturday, March 22) at its base above the Ken Warne shop, on Whitworth Terrace, Spennymoor with a tournament, from 4pm to 6pm, followed by a 1960s night, from
FIVE more people have been arrested in the investigation into the sexual abuse of vulnerable women and girls. The total number of Operation Sanctuary arrests now stands at 64 (62 men and two women) from across the Northumbria Police area. Eight
GREEN fingered volunteers rolled up their sleeves and helped prepare a community garden for spring planting season today (Friday, March 21). People of all ages descended on the Pioneering Care Centre in Newton Aycliffe for the event, which is part
TRIBUTES have been paid to a woman who helped inspire a local history society. Joyce Urwin, who helped found Tudhoe and Spennymoor Local History Society, died at the University Hospital of North Durham, on Sunday, March 16. The 76-year-old
POLICE have named a man who died after being hit by a car in Durham City late last night (Thursday, March 20). Investigators from Durham Constabulary believe Andrew Cook, 34, of Garden Lane, Durham City, was lying on the road when he was struck
PAST pupils of a Ferryhill school are invited to a reunion. Anyone who graduated from Broom Cottages Secondary Modern School in 1974 is invited to attend the event at Ferryhill Masonic Hall, on North Road, from 7pm to 11pm on Saturday, May 10.
A FAMILY has put up a £1,000 reward for information about a suspected arson attack. A greenhouse at the Durham Road allotments, in Spennymoor, County Durham, was destroyed by fire overnight on September 9, 2012. An investigation by the fire
AN art gallery that attracts thousands of visitors from across the North has been named after a volunteer curator who helped it get established. Bob Abley was instrumental in the creation of the gallery at Spennymoor Town Hall, in County Durham
AN MP has donned a blindfold to take a walk around a busy town centre and experience what life is like for visually impaired people in the North-East. Jenny Chapman, MP for Darlington, joined Adele Waterfall-Brown, an RNIB and Guide Dogs volunteer
AN amateur actor who dreams of playing Sally Webster’s brother in Coronation Street has landed the lead role in West Side Story. As well as aspiring to tread the legendary cobbles, self-confessed comedian Tim Peacock said he would also like to
THE outlook is now starting to look much healthier for the housing market, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender Halifax has revealed. Its latest survey shows prices rose by 2.4 per cent during February, leaving them 7.9 per cent higher than a year
IF BIGGER really is better when it comes to your idea of an ideal property, Nidd Park House should more than raise a smile. Even the most discerning of buyers would battle to find fault with the property, from its location on the edge of the village
A CORONER will raise concerns with prison chiefs over how their chaplains share information after an inmate’s suicide attempt several months before he killed himself went unreported to other staff. Boniface Umale was seen standing on a chair with
A COUNCILLOR has criticised Stockton Borough Council’s plan to spend £400,000 on a new car park in Billingham – so retirement homes can be built on one that already exists. Coun Phil Dennis said he has taken the issue up with the council's Conservative
YOUTH THEATRE: The Children’s Amateur Theatre Society is seeking youngsters aged between eight and 14-years to audition for its High School Musical show. Singers and dancers are being sought for the play which is set to be performed in October. Auditions
POLICE divers have once more taken to the water in the continuing search for missing Ben Clarkson. Officers from the underwater search team today, March 21, scoured the River Foss in York between Heworth Green and the basin at St George’s Field
TELEVISION and film students have found themselves in the frame for high praise after completing an ambitious project for the police. Students at Darlington College spent weeks filming and editing a video designed to boost public confidence in
FIVE furniture and carpet retailers have changed their pricing practices after an investigation into the way discounts are advertised. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) says it has closed its investigation after ScS, Carpetright, Dreams, Furniture
A REVIEW of firearms licences is being carried out by Cleveland Police as they reveal there are more 9,000 weapons registered in the force area. The review, which is expected to take a number of months, is part of the force’s aim to ensure that
PEOPLE are being invited to herald the coming of spring on a free five-mile guided walk and sing-along on the North York Moors. The walk between Hutton-le-Hole and Lastingham on April 6 at 1.30pm is being led by Judith Wilson, a member of Malton
2:22pm Newcastle United v Crystal Palace Here's those teams in full: NEWCASTLE UNITED (4-4-1-1): Krul; Yanga-Mbiwa, Coloccini, Williamson, Dummett; Sissoko, Anita, Tiote, Gouffran; De Jong; Cisse. Subs: Elliot, Ben
A FINANCIAL advisor has been jailed for six years for conning more than 50 people out of millions of pounds. Police described the actions of David Reid as "disgusting" after he admitted stealing "generations of families’ inheritance". The 50
A TRAIN company has revealed attacks on its staff have fallen by more than a third. There were 95 reported assaults on Northern Rail employees last year, a decrease on 2012’s figure of 154. Northern said this was half the number of assaults
ARTWORK created by textile artists and students will go on show in Darlington next month. Students and artists based at the Bobbin Shed 21, in Lingfield Point, Darlington, will showcase their work at an exhibition at the site on Saturday, April
THE distinctive presenter of the BBC Tees Breakfast show took to the airwaves today (Friday, March 21) under his new when he nailed his colours to the mast of his beloved Middlesbrough Football Club. Ali Brownlee has gone the extra mile and officially
PLUCKY pupils pulled on their dancing shoes to help inspire North-East women to enter this year’s Race for Life. Students from Tiffany School of Dance, in Darlington, joined fundraisers from Cancer Research UK to perform the Cancer Slam – a feisty
A PAEDOPHILE who is serving an indefinite sentence has appeared in court on fresh child abuse charges. John Sykes, 50, pleaded guilty to eight counts of indecent assault on a male dating back to the 1990s. He will be sentenced at Teesside Crown
A CHILDREN’s author and illustrator helped schoolchildren explore the wonderful world of books this week. Darlington author Liz Million ran two story illustration workshops at Sedgefield Primary School as part of the school’s annual book week.
A MAN attacked his girlfriend's ex-lover with a wine bottle when he found them together in his home. John Burlinson was furious that Craig Mosley had taken alcoholic Lesley Tough to buy more booze. Ms Tough had already had a bottle of vodka
A LIVE folk music night will take place at Sedgefield Cricket Club in Sedgefield, County Durham, at 7.45pm on Friday, April 4. Sedgefield Folk Club have organised the event, which will feature musicians Paul Tilly and Tom Townsend, Robson Field, John
A BENEFITS cheat could be jailed for a six-year swindle which netted him £46,000 he should not have had. Keith Brown lied about the extent of his health so he could rake in Disability Living Allowance, a court heard. Even when the 56-year-old
SCHOOL pupils have competed in a new age kurling tournament. Youngsters from across north Durham contested the event, held at Durham Trinity School, Durham City. A team from Burnside Primary, Stanley, were crowed winners, while a squad of pupils
A Spring Equinox party, featuring song, dance and poetry, will be held at the Old Church, Sacriston, on Sunday (March 23) at 5pm. Exercise session: An exercise drop-in session for people aged 40-plus is held on Mondays in the Chester-le-Street
RAIL enthusiasts have been given Government approval to clear land which formed part of the original 1825 Stockton and Darlington Railway. The Brusselton Incline Group was set up to seek repairs for the Accommodation and Milk Road bridges at Brusselton
THE man who founded York's Richard III Museum and helped launch the careers of several comic stars when he ran a local club, the Comedy Shack, has died, aged 55. Father-of-two Mike Bennett had been suffering from multiple sclerosis since 2007 and bowel
DONALD McCain can strike gold with Cloudy Joker in the Betfred Novices’ Handicap Hurdle Race Final at Sedgefield. He qualified for this race when finishing second at the track back in October but has since been campaigned over fences, winning three
MOUSE MORRIS will consider dropping Rule The World back in trip for a potential second clash with The New One in next month’s Doom Bar Aintree Hurdle. The seven-year-old was four lengths behind Nigel Twiston- Davies’ stable star when runner- up
TYSON FURY made an abrupt exit from a press conference to preview his rematch with Dereck Chisora, tossing the top table aside and storming out after promising to knock his opponent out. Fury had done most of the talking in London on Monday at
JIM CULLOTY already has one eye on Lord Windermere’s Cheltenham Gold Cup defence next March after revealing his stable star will not run again this season. The eight-year-old got the better of On His Own by a short head and survived a stewards’
SIR STEVE Redgrave is convinced a dramatic shiftchange in the nation’s attitude to sporting success can pave the way for Great Britain to exceed its 65- strong London medal haul at the Rio Olympics. Five-time Olympic champion Redgrave insists there
ENGLAND’S form going into their World Twenty20 opener against New Zealand may leave plenty to be desired, but newcomer Moeen Ali is relishing his first taste of international cricket. The Worcestershire batsman, who prefers to be known as an all-rounder
GARETH BREESE’S prospects of playing any more first-class cricket for Durham have been dealt a blow by his late withdrawal from the squad for the MCC v Champions match in Abu Dhabi. The players flew out on Wednesday to prepare for the four-day
MANCHESTER UNITED and Chelsea fans are keeping watch on the draw for the Champions League this morning. United made it through to the last eight after they overturned a two-goal deficit on a thrilling night against Olympiacos. The Red Devils
TRIBUTES have been paid to a long-serving council executive, who is leaving his post next month after 14 years with the authority. Richard Alty, director of place for Darlington Borough Council, will leave his £90,000-a-year role on April 22.
MICHAEL CARRICK has seen too many false dawns this season to know the epic comeback against Olympiacos does not mean Manchester United will end the season on a high. After a chastening few days for David Moyes, his Manchester United team finally
HIGHWAYS Agency bosses have said the £380m scheme to upgrade 12 miles of the A1 between Leeming and Barton in North Yorkshire will be built in three stages to best deal with the various challenges contractors will face. At a public exhibition at
Final Score: Benfica 2 Tottenham Hotspur 2 TOTTENHAM’S hopes of winning a trophy are over for another season yet they will return from Portugal with renewed optimism after Nacer Chadli’s brace ended a three-match losing streak in a Europa League
A WHIST drive, organised by Durham County Federation of Women’s Institutes, will be held at Evenwood and Ramshaw Randolph Centre at 2pm tomorrow (Saturday, March 22). Admission is £3, including refreshments. SPIRITUAL NIGHT: Trimdon Station Community
IF you won £108m, would you tell the world? No, me neither. But Neil Trotter did. When he had his massive Euro Lottery win, he told everyone because he said he didn’t want to be deceitful with his friends. Which is nice and sort of trusting. He
PAUL O’Grady has spent £8,000 on treatment for his nine-yearold terrier Olga who had cancer. It seems a ridiculous amount to spend on a dog. On the other hand, he can afford it and plenty of people spend that much on handbags, holidays and designer
SO there I was, on Hadrian’s Wall in a howling wind and a spit of rain. The marvellous March heatwave had petered out somewhere around Corbridge. It was freezing. The fort’s museum was full of prep school boys giggling, as only 12-year-old boys
DAME Vera Lynn is bringing out a new album this summer, at the age of 97. Meanwhile, Laura Thomas, 94, is celebrating 75 years as a successful driving instructor and has no plans to retire. Not surprising then that new research shows that people
Dear Sharon, LIKE many another teenage lad, I had a go at growing sideburns. At my school, we had a woodwork teacher whose party piece was to lift a pupil by his sideburns. This is amazingly painful and should not be tried at home. Martin Birtle
THE issue of how much carry-on luggage passengers are permitted to take on planes has become almost farcical in recent years. A new survey by Skyscanner reveals that 82 per cent of people would like to see a standardised cabin bag allowance introduced
JAMES MARTIN is hosting an evening of fine dining on April 8 at the Talbot Hotel in Malton. The celebrity chef, who is at the helm of the two AA rosette-awarded restaurant, won’t only be hard at work in the kitchen, as he will also take the opportunity
TWO of the North-East’s best loved landmarks have joined forces to give visitors a glimpse of life in days gone by. Historic Lumley Castle, at Chester-le-Street, County Durham, has teamed up with nearby Beamish open air museum to create a mini-break
IT was late February. The weekend before, my wife Sarah and I had battled our way across the Pennines in snow, wind and rain. By contrast, various relatives were off around the globe, enjoying sunnier climes. We needed a proper break. This
GARY LINEKER, Davina Mc- Call, David Walliams, Claudia Winkleman, Jack Whitehall and Fearne Cotton present a night of celebrity performances, comedy sketches and charity challenges for this year’s Sport Relief. And Friday night telly with the feel-good
AT times, there is a feeling this comedy was made by feeding data from previous hit sitcoms into a computer, and then the cast and script tried to make the best of the result. Add one Inbetweener (Blake Harrison); the long-suffering mum from Him
ART historian and Bafta-nominated broadcaster Dr James Fox returns for a new three-part series for the Beeb, in which he’s discussing the era when Britain embraced cutting-edge art, literature, architecture and science. As he explains in the programme
MARVEL movie fans will be in their element in the coming months as The Amazing Spider-Man 2, X: Men Days of Future Past and Guardians of the Galaxy hit the big screen. Meanwhile, Joss Whedon’s flashy TV saga this week sees the small-screen agents
COUNCILLORS have clashed over aborted plans to create the region’s first engineering centre of excellence in Darlington. Alan Coultas, a member of the opposing Conservative group on Darlington Borough Council, was among the supporters of plans
WHEN Opera North came to round-off its latest visit to Newcastle with From Paris with Love, there was just one slight hitch – lead tenor Peter Auty had unfortunately woken that morning to discover he had lost his voice. In the true tradition of
A FAMILY-run opticians has been praised for its charity work. Wade Opticians received a gold award from Optometry Giving Sight, after raising £300 in the charity’s 2013 World Sight Day Challenge. The organisation helps people with sight problems
BRITPOP band Space will headline one of eight stages at Stockton Calling, a music festival featuring 70 acts in one day. The ‘Female of the Species’ hit makers, who came to prominence in the mid-90s, are performing at Ku bar on Saturday, April
THE search has been launched to find the best exponent of one of Yorkshire’s truly rural crafts – dry stone walling. The CLA has launched its 2014 Dry Stone Wall Competition, an event aimed at preserving the ancient skill. The biennial competition
A MAN has suffered a broken jaw after being assautled in a Middlesbrough pizza shop. The 30-year-old was punched once in the face at 3.40am on Friday, February 7 inside Soprano's Pizza shop on Wilson Street, Middlesbrough. The injured man required
A RETIRED farmer who has restored thousands of tradesmens’ tools for people in Africa is appealing for help to continue the charitable work. Mark Henshaw, 78, said he may scale back his work for charity Tools for Self Reliance, unless he can set
A CONTROVERSIAL review said to put Durham University’s world-renowned collegiate system at risk appears to have been put on hold. Student leaders claimed an internal review into how the university manages its accommodation, commercial services
RESIDENTS have claimed a scheme to demolish former police cells and build a new base for a dance school could create gridlock in a town centre. Thirsk-based Butterfly School of Dance, which provides lessons for more than 450 students in hired halls
ALEM is a person with a story, as we all are. He’s 14, a refugee from wartorn Africa, left in an unfamiliar world of foster care, his fate resting uncomfortably in the hands of a mechanical judicial system. Fisayo Akinade has a wonderfully understated
I RECENTLY had the misfortune to watch the James Bond film Quantum of Solace on television. What a waste of time. Imagine, if you had paid good money to see such rubbish at the cinema. It deserves a special rating of R10. Meaning, not to be
THE idea of a percentage pay rise is a total con. It makes the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. One per cent of £150,000 is a lot more than one per cent of £20,000. WHERE is the justice in this, as well as the common sense? I did not agree
AFTER watching the BBC Panorama programme on Monday, regarding the accident and emergency department at North Tees Hospital, in Stockton, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for the staff. No one should put up with any physical or verbal abuse from
CT RILEY (HAS, Mar 15) accuses me of making allegations without providing the relevant evidence to back them up. He specifically impugns my statement that Stalin and Mao between them murdered scores of millions of people. In all seriousness, at
HAVING a large number of people who were pupils at Eton in the Government does not help the majority of voters, who are working class. The well-off come from a different environment and have little knowledge of what voters want. Worse, they do
WILLIAM HAGUE says the vote in Crimea was illegal (Echo, Mar 18). Apparently, 97 per cent of those who voted want to join the Russian Federation. When neo-Fascist right wingers ousted the elected president of Ukraine there was a deafening silence
CHARLOTTE BULL (HAS, Mar 15) asks why everyone is picking on Ukip leader Nigel Farrage. It’s probably because we’ve sussed him, Charlotte. My dictionary definition of sussed is: to work out or discover the true facts of. Dave Cook, Sacriston
I SYMPATHISE with people in Bedale over the acute, and very dangerous, problems at the junction known as Five Land Ends, where an elderly man on a mobility scooter was killed some time ago. This same junction, which connects the very busy Firby
AM I alone in experiencing difficulty following the logical of C T Riley’s letters? He faults Christians for historic anti-Semitism while he is deafeningly anti-Christian. Is this not rather inconsistent? Or are there different standards? Then
LAST Friday I heard a speech by Tony Benn on TV. What he said was the truth – how the Tories were screwing the people of Great Britain, selling off our assets and putting themselves on the board of directors to reap all the benefits for themselves
A LONG serving County Durham councillor has died. Coun Bill Waters, from Byers Green, near Spennymoor, passed away yesterday (Thursday, March 20) at the age of 77. Former miner Coun Waters was first elected onto Spennymoor Town Council in May
SPRING THING: The annual Spring Thing Folk event in Darlington will continue this weekend with concerts and musical activities taking place at the following times and locations: Saturday, March 22: Headline festival concert featuring John Tams and
THE leader of the North-East’s biggest council has defended the national bargaining system for setting local government workers’ pay, after about a million were offered a pay rise of one per cent. Durham County Council leader Simon Henig said:
Spennymoor manager Jason Ainsley is hoping that Moors can strongly enhance their promotion prospects by winning their top three clash at Celtic Nation today. Third placed Moors go into the game – which is expected to attract a crowd of over 1,000
OUT on my bike last weekend, I got caught in a spring downpour. A shower of song cascaded from the sky into every field that I passed. I stopped and stared into the bright blue in hope of spotting the source of the song, but all I saw were dead
THE UK is home to the most watched football league in the world and has some of the world’s best players, most iconic stadiums and finest training facilities. Yet, despite Britain’s passion for football, our national teams have not always shone on
AS we said yesterday, George Osborne’s fourth Budget was devised with the approaching General Election very much in mind. It was nevertheless a sure-footed Budget which made political sense, featured important changes on pensions and savings, and
PLANS to move a special school to the site of a former comprehensive have been unveiled. Consultation is underway over plans to move Hare Law School to the former Greencroft Business and Enterprise Community School, at Greencroft, near Stanley.
A PEDESTRIAN has died after being hit by a car in Durham. Police say it is believed the dead man was lying in the road when he was hit by a Vauxhall Corsa. The accident happened shortly before 10.30pm last night in South Road, Durham. The
QUICK thinking friends who braved thick smoke and fire as they sought to see if anyone was trapped in a house fire have been praised. Kelly Wilkinson, 24, and Amanda Gray, 30, of Ferryhill, saw a bungalow on fire at 1pm on Tuesday, March 11.
New Darlington signing Adam Mitchell goes straight into the squad for today’s game at Prescot Cables. The youngster, who signed for Quakers yesterday, can play up front or on the wing and has joined for the rest of the season from Sunderland, where
Tickets are on sale for a comedy night to be held at Blackwell Meadows, Darlington, next month in aid of the Back to Darlo fund. The Hilarity Bites Comedy Club are providing the comedians for the evening, which takes place on Saturday, April 12
A WOMAN'S dream of setting up a not-for-profit community shop offering everyday essentials has been scuppered after a last-minute change of heart by the ruling committee at the village hall where it was to be based. The decision means Kirston Clulow
AWAY from home this season, and Hartlepool United have set their standards. Now, with four games remaining away from Victoria Park, they need to hit them again. The performances in convincing wins at Mansfield, Sheffield United and Exeter in the
THE boss of Darlington Building Society has been criticised after receiving a £27,000 increase in the financial package paid to him last year. David Dodd, who plans to retire later this year, saw his overall remuneration leap to £186,161 - a 16.5
THE Scottish Nationalists have been accused of sabotaging a long hoped-for upgrade of the A1 – despite pledging closer links with the North. Alex Salmond’s party is refusing to help fund a study into creating a badly-needed dual carriageway north
SEVEN weeks of the season to go, and the Premier League title race promises to be one of the tightest and most entertaining ever. With just six points separating the top four teams, it is impossible to predict the identity of the eventual winner
MIKE ASHLEY has given Newcastle United's recruitment team the green light to step up their pursuit of a number of “realistic” attacking targets ahead of the opening of the summer transfer window. In a move that suggests there is no immediate intention
JONATHAN WOODGATE will not be fit in time for Middlesbrough’s game against Queens Park Rangers tomorrow, but Aitor Karanka is more than happy with his current defensive pairing. Woodgate has been suffering with a calf injury after limping off at
The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane resumed at first light but - as yet - an international task force has found no trace of the aircraft. Search planes joined a freighter to scan rough seas in one of the remotest places on Earth after
GOVERNORS who resigned en-masse from a North Yorkshire school have lodged a complaint with the Department for Education. The former governing body at Richmond School has also contacted Ofsted after its relationship with senior teachers at the school
THE latest in a series of fundraising events for a £5m steam engine to be assembled in Darlington will be held in the region this weekend. Hot on the heels of Top Gear presenter James May making the first component for Prince of Wales last month
ORGANISERS of a new food festival that will celebrate the North-East’s rail heritage have called on local community groups and schools to take part in the three day event. The Distinctly Delicious Darlington Festival of Food will feature a food
A TEACHING assistant with a penchant for crisps has saved a packet on her wedding dress after a colleague made one from wrappers of her favourite snack. Jane Gettings, who is tying the knot this weekend, can get through three of four bags a day
GUSTAVO POYET has outlined a desire to focus on the long term at Sunderland despite the uncertainty surrounding the club’s Premier League future – and he is ready to accept partial responsibility for any relegation pain. Sunderland head in to tomorrow
A CONVICTED killer trawling the internet grooming young girls for sex was caught in a police sting, a court heard. Michael Wilkinson was caught after falling for a “fishing expedition” to weed out online paedophiles when he replied to a website
Springthing Folk Festival, Darlington A fun weekend of concerts, dance, singarounds, workshops and a craft fair based in and around The Dolphin Centre. Musicians include Loose Connection, Flossie, John Tams and Darlington Mummers. A full
UNION leaders and an MP have pleaded with the Government to save hundreds of public sector jobs at risk in the North-East. A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (DBIS) consultation on the future of the Land Registry ended last night
THE latest version of the C-RV promises improvements across the board. One of the main areas is efficiency. So does the smaller engined SUV cut the mustard? On the road: A WHILE back if you wanted a diesel powered C-RV you had to have a big
A TEENAGER is hoping for success in a national singing competition. Sophie-Jean Richardson, of Willington, will compete in the regional audition of TeenStar (CORR) at the Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre, in Newcastle, on Saturday (March 22). This is
FOOTBALL fans have paid tribute to the forgotten founder of the Northern League to mark the competition’s 125th anniversary with a service at his graveside. Charles Samuel Craven, a 25-year-old engineer, was the man behind the Northern League when
