The latest production by Darlington Operatic Society has proved to be a real hair-raiser for charity. Hairspray ended its 11-show run at Darlington Civic Theatre tonight with a deserved standing ovation. A collection has been held each night
ON May 1, 1915, Emily Anderson and her daughter Barbara, who was a month shy of her third birthday, boarded RMS Lusitania at Pier 54 in New York.Emily was five months pregnant with her second child and she was suffering from tuberculosis. She was returning
WEST AUCKLAND WMC are pomoted to division one after beating Evenwood Town 4-2 in their final fixture today. Scorers for West in their fourth consecutive league win were Liam Hargreaves, Martin Hutchinson, Josh Ridley and Anthony Bowes. Whilst promotion
WITTON PARK won the Albert Vickers cup for the first time in beating Howden Australian 5-0 at Willington today. But it could and should have been a very different scoreline. Howden needed to start well and they did shading the first fifteen minutes. Twice
AFTER LOSING out in three previous finals this season Middlestone Moor Masons Arms tasted success last night with a 2-1 victory over Shildon Railway in the South Durham Bowl final. Jamie Abley gave Masons a first half lead but Railway were level at
DARLINGTON Book Fair is held next Saturday in the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College. There will be scores of sellers from across the country offering antiquarian and secondhand books, and there will be lots of other printed material for sale.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have proudly shown their baby princess to the world - just hours after she was born. William and Kate could not contain their happiness as they left hospital holding their daughter, who is fourth in line to the
POLICE have issued images of clothing similar to that worn by a young woman whose body was found in the River Wear. She is described as white, in her early 20's, 5 feet 6''tall, who was slim with brown shoulder length hair. The body was found
THERE has been a lot of interest, but not a lot of information, in Little Burdon, following the snippet in Memories 226.Little Burdon is a derelict Grade II listed farm on the A66 on the eastern edge of Darlington, near Sadberge. It was built in the 18th
DUTCHMAN Moreno Hofland won stage two of the Tour de Yorkshire in York on Saturday as Team Sky's Lars Petter Nordhaug tacked on a few more seconds to his overall lead ahead of Sunday's decisive finale. Hofland gave the LottoNL-Jumbo team their
SO Sam Robson can bat after all. The man who totalled 14 runs in four innings against Durham in 2013 kept them at bay for all but five minutes of the day to make 178. Middlesex closed on 329 for four with Adam Voges making 57 as he continues to
HARTLEPOOL UNITED’S season ended in some style with a manic 3-3 draw at Carlisle on the final day of the season. Trailing 3-0 at half-time after a desperate opening half, they stormed back to pull level and send the 2,224 away fans back home ecstatic
THE "Old Skipper", Frederick James Rayner, had a remarkable life, and he liked to reminisce in Darlington's Brinkburn Dene and to tell his stories in his favourite working men's clubs. He also told them to a reporter from the Darlington and Stockton
Full-time: Sunderland 2 Southampton 1 SUNDERLAND secured a Premier League lifeline at the Stadium of Light when Jordi Gomez was spot on to secure three vital points to Wearside. Despite gifting Southampton’s Sadio Mane a calamitous equaliser
JOHN CARVER has sensationally accused Newcastle United defender Mike Williamson of deliberately getting himself sent off during this afternoon’s 3-0 defeat at Leicester City. Having already been booked in the first half, Williamson was dismissed
LOUISE Mahe won the inaugural Tour de Yorkshire women's race in a photo finish in York on Saturday. The IKON-Mazda rider edged out Eileen Roe (Wiggle Honda) and Katie Curtis (Pearl Izumi) by a matter of inches after four laps of the 20km circuit
THE anticipated afternoon of toil duly materialised as Durham again took only one wicket in the session and Middlesex reached 220 for two at tea. Having never previously looked like scoring many against Durham, Sam Robson is still there on 118
RESIDENTS of a tiny village made a big difference to their environment by giving their neighbourhood a spring clean.People from Bolam, near West Auckland, teamed up to hold a community litter pick.Darlington Mayor Councillor Gerald Lee joined the event
THE COOLER and cloudier conditions gave anglers a lot more sporting action this week at Witton Castle Lakes. This, combined with the continued hatches across all the lakes, gave the 65 anglers who paid us a visit a very decent rod average of 4 fish.
A 22-YEAR-OLD student has spoken of the trauma she had suffered after a mugger ran her down on his bike. Laura Johansson was walking home along Corporation Road in Middlesbrough when a man in his late 40s or early 50s deliberately rode a bike into
Full-time: Leicester 3 Newcastle 0 NEWCASTLE’S record-breaking run of defeats continued as they slumped to a 3-0 reverse at Leicester City that leaves them in grave danger of suffering the drop. John Carver’s side have become the first team
COLOURFUL. Controversial. One of Labour’s most vigorous personalities. Labour’s strong man. The Mr Big of Darlington.These are some of the descriptions that were applied to Cecil Spence during his heyday in the 1950s and 1960s.Another of them was extremely
MIDDLESBROUGH will face Brentford in the Championship play-offs after Aitor Karanka’s side laboured to a 0-0 draw against Brighton. The Bees’ 3-0 win at home to Wigan Athletic propelled Mark Warburton’s side to fifth place, with Boro dropping below
MORE than 300 officers and ratings from Sunderland's adopted warship HMS Ocean were greeted by crowds of well-wishers as they exercised their Freedom of the City earlier today (Saturday, May 2). Led by The Band of HM Royal Marines Scotland, the
A WOMAN has broken both legs after falling from her horse. Police said it is believed she was thrown from the horse after it was startled by a passing lorry on Burnopfield Road in Rowlands Gill at 11.05 this morning (Saturday, May 2). The ambulance
DURHAM decided not to risk Graham Onions because of a minor knee problem at Lord's this morning and Sam Robson must have been mightily relieved. He has never looked comfortable against Onions and on the evidence of a total of 14 runs in four innings
A MILITARY parade attended by the Queen took place at Richmond Castle to mark the amalgamation of two regiments of Royal Lancers. The event, which was attended by hundreds of family members, military personnel and civic leaders, saw 400 officers
A FORMER MasterChef finalist and other leading chefs from North Yorkshire will feature at this weekend’s Dales Festival of Food and Drink. The three day event near Leyburn, one of the largest festivals of its kind in the region, opens today (Saturday
A BOUQUET was placed at the top of a cathedral tower to mark National Flower Arranging Day.Helena Johnson, a member of the National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies (NAFAS) board, placed several small bouquets around Durham Cathedral including
A PARLIAMENTARY candidate made a brave revelation that she is a victim of rape during a hustings on female issues organised by the Darlington and Durham Rape and Sexual Abuse Counselling Centre. Liberal Democrat candidate Anne-Marie Curry told
A BIKER has died after coming off his motorcycle and hitting the central reservation of the A1. The 46-year-old local man was pronounced dead at the scene near Washington services by paramedics and closures were put in place while police examined
5:00pm PLAY-OFF FINAL: Darlington 2 Bamber Bridge 0 Darlington are going up - get in! 4:54pm PLAY-OFF FINAL: Darlington 2 Bamber Bridge 0 Brig keeper Lee Dovey sent
A YOUNG swimmer has struck gold after competing abroad for the first time.Jay McCabe, a student at St Aidan’s Academy, in Darlington, took gold in the 100m breaststroke swimming for Team GB at the international in Berlin.At the same contest she added
WITH a reputation that precedes them, it was unsurprising the Borodin Quartet filled Sage Gateshead’s Hall Two to its top tier when they dropped in as part of their 70th anniversary world tour. Formed when four students met to play at the Moscow
THROWING himself into tackles, breaking up play, displaying fierce determination and being a general nuisance makes Leon Scott the archetypal battling midfielder. If there’s a ball to be won he’ll be there with a crunching tackle, and you wouldn
DARLINGTON are 90 minutes from promotion as they take on Bamber Bridge today at Heritage Park, just three days after their thrilling semi-final with Spennymoor Town. Quakers won the five-goal thriller 3-2 at a packed Heritage Park, the winner scored
BILLY JONES admits October’s eight-goal humiliation at the hands of Southampton will be at the forefront of Sunderland players’ minds when they line up against the Saints again this afternoon. With last weekend’s 1-1 draw at Stoke City having plunged
THE Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a daughter at 8.34am this morning, Kensington Palace has announced. The royal baby - who is fourth in line to the throne - weighed 8lbs 3oz and Her Royal Highness and her child are said to be both doing
A TEAM of North-East experts helping Nepal prepare for an earthquake have spoken of their shock that the country’s biggest quake in 80 years hit just two days after they left.Professor Alex Densmore and Dr Katie Oven, from the Institute of Hazard, Risk
A PASSENGER who sparked a major fire on a North Sea ferry while "so drunk he could barely stand" richly deserved his tough sentence, top judges have ruled. Boden George Hughes, 27, caused £800,000 worth of damage aboard the DFDS King Seaways after
JOHN CARVER does not think Tim Krul wants to leave Newcastle United this summer after another frustrating campaign on Tyneside. Krul has been linked with a move to a number of clubs over the last few months including Crystal Palace, despite Alan Pardew
JOHN Carver has revealed how a Newcastle United supporting white van man left him feeling like he had received a ‘pot of gold’ just a couple of days after the strains of the job were highlighted by his run-in with a few fans at St James’ Park.Two of the
By Martin WalkerFORMER Middlesbrough goalkeeper Jason Steele has won his first piece of silverware - but it's a managerial achievement the young footballer is celebrating.Steele watched on proudly as his Sunday morning pub team, Newton Aycliffe Working
AS he trudged away from Kenilworth Road, Ronnie Moore wondered if their time was finally up.After finally escaping the bottom two relegation places, Hartlepool United were doing their best to fall back into the bottom two.A 3-0 defeat at Luton two weeks
ARTHUR Watson, who was born in 1845, had a quiet start to life on a farm in Holwick before working in a dale lead mine. The only travelling he did was a few miles on foot, walking over the Tees at Winch Bridge and then back home. That was his route to
DURHAM are hoping to complete a Lord's hat-trick over the next four days and leap to the top of the LV County Championship.They had just started their surge to division one safety and the Royal London Cup triumph last September when they beat Middlesex
HE might only have taken over from Gus Poyet six weeks ago, but Dick Advocaat will be assuming full responsibility for Sunderland’s plight if he is unable to keep the club in the Premier League. The Black Cats head into this afternoon’s home game
A MOTHER-OF-TWO facing prison for stealing more than £26,000 worth of lottery tickets from the newsagents where she worked has been given three months to find a way to repay the cash. Lisa Johnston stole thousands of lottery tickets and scratch
IT might be a meaningless fixture on paper, but Middlesbrough head coach Aitor Karanka insists this afternoon’s dead rubber with Brighton could still have a significant impact on the club’s play-off hopes. Boro entertain Brighton on the final day
