A TOUCH rugby family fun day raised valuable funds for a North-East hospice on Saturday. The event, in aid of Butterwick Hospice, was organised by Industrial Technology Systems and was held at Mowden Park Rugby Club. The touch rugby tournament
A MUM has thanked a helicopter crew who came to her aid when her toddler suffered a medical emergency.Maria Ellis's 11-month-old son Oscar gave her a shock when he began having violent convulsions.After calling an ambulance for help, the North-East
THE Food Standards Agency (FSA) has said it is investigating allegations that traces of meat were found in vegetarian and vegan ready meals.Laboratory tests reportedly found traces of pork in Sainsbury's "meat free" meatballs and traces
JERMAIN Defoe has dedicated his OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours to his "best friend" Bradley Lowery, who died last year aged six. The England forward bonded instantly with Bradley, who suffered from neuroblastoma, a rare and debilitating form
A PILOT has swapped sojourns over the North Sea for emergency missions with the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS).Keith Chick spent 26 years ferrying offshore workers on North Sea oil routes, but has now joined the charity as a relief pilot.Mr
YOUNGSTERS have been warned about potentially endangering lives after reports of children playing on a helicopter pad used by emergency services.The youngsters were spotted on the helicopter pad at Middlesbrough’s James Cook University Hospital.The platform
A WOMAN is believed to have been knocked unconscious after being hit by a horse and carriage at Appleby Horse Fair. The woman is understood to have suffered head injuries in the collision in the Cumbrian village at 12.30pm on Friday. Speaking
A BUSINESSMAN who has dedicated more than 45 years to serving his local community has been awarded an MBE for services to business, charity and the community. Bill Calvert, 66, from Thirsk, founded Calverts Carpets, which has branches across the
A ROAD has been closed today following land slippage. The back road between Binchester and Bishop Auckland was closed this afternoon due to the damage caused to The Batts. A notice on Durham County Council's website said the route, which runs
I’ve got some good rides at Haydock today, and I’m looking forward to them a lot.Euro Nightmare takes her chance in the Group Three Betway Pinnacle Stakes over an extended 12 furlongs.She won nicely last time over ten furlongs at Ayr when she comfortably
A SUCCESSION of women were duped into handing money to a serial fraudster who preyed on their vulnerability, a court heard. Andy Clark, who met several of his victims through online dating sites, came up with a variety of stories over why he was
A BODY has been recovered near Darlington during a search to locate a missing woman. A 49-year-old woman was last seen at her family home in Darlington at 9.20pm last night, Thursday. Just before 11.15pm, her black Land Rover Freelander was
Haydock Park stage today’s feature meeting and the highlight is the Group 3 John Of Gaunt Stakes.Confidence in Dutch Connection (4.00) has ebbed somewhat when I saw the fact that the six-year-old has been drawn out on the wing in stall eight.The selection
Tom Latham has insisted that Durham can turn the page from their Royal London One-Day Cup disappointment by shooting up the Specsavers County Championship Division Two table.The club failed to progress from the group stage of the 50-over competition for
ALL eyes in the Dukes ECB North East Premier League are at the top, as Hetton Lyons in third position, travel to champions South North.Skipper Jarvis Clay has a full squad to choose from and Cameron Grimwood returns for Victor Spencer .Clay admitted:
A TEAM of colleagues and loved ones are tackling a mammoth charity challenge in memory of a consultant who dedicated his career to helping others.John Hindmarsh was a prominent figure in the local health community, spending much of his career at the
CYCLISTS have donated £2,000 to a mountain rescue team which helped a friend and colleague seriously injured in a mountain biking accident. Popular cyclist Geoff Proffitt, a chartered senior engineer based in Northallerton, was involved in a serious mountain
A PIONEERING local charity helping those with dementia has been given a cash boost thanks to an innovative recycling initiative.The Dementia Friendly Middlesbrough project received a £5,000 donation after families gave consent for the recycling of metals
A SURVEY has revealed significant structural problems at a seafront cinema and will remain closed.The Regent Cinema had to be shut in April after a routine condition survey highlighted significant structural defects.Independent building surveyors Billinghurst
THE FOUNDER of The Big Issue pledged to ‘evangelise’ for good causes in the North-East when he visited the region yesterday.Lord John Bird toured a number of facilities around Teesside as he met those he has helped to support through the Big Issue Invest
MORE than 120 golfers came together yesterday to raise funds for two North-East charities.Bishop Auckland Rotary Club’s annual golf day attracts players from across the region and has raised in excess of £55,000 for good causes over the last ten years.This
A LEWIS Carroll-themed development at a five-star resort is nearly complete. Woodland cabins known as 'Arctic Pods', a glass house, adventure playground and woodland trail are almost complete at the development at Rockliffe Hall Hotel, in Hurworth
THE life and work of one of the world’s best loved authors is the focus of a special exhibition at her North-East home town.Dame Catherine Cookson wrote almost 100 books, which sold more than 123 million copies, and her novels were translated into at
AN annual celebration of the region’s mining history is expecting more huge crowds to take part this year. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is one of the line-up of speakers set to take part at the 134th Durham Miners’ Gala, which takes place this year
A UNIVERSITY has appointed its first community liaison officer in a bid to ease tensions with city residents. Hannah Shepherd will be working for Durham University to develop relationships though a new community engagement task force.Tensions between
PARKRUNS all over the country are being taken over today to mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS. They are taking place all over the region, including at Durham, Darlington, Sedgefield, Chester-le-Street, Blackhill, near Consett, Hartlepool, Tees
A CELEBRATION of community life in Sedgefield will take place this month.Sedgefield Day will be held at Ceddesfeld Hall from 10.15am on Saturday, June 23.Organised by Sedgefield Community Association, the free event is designed to give residents in the
TICKETS are still available for a North-East folk festival set to make its return this summer.The 13th annual Sedgefield Folk Festival will descend on the town for three days on Friday, August 31.Organiser Joan Edmondson said: “Tickets are selling well
HEALTH chiefs working on a way forward for Northallerton’s Friarage Hospital have revealed they’re planning to produce a business case on options for the future by the autumn.Watchdogs say the most important thing is that the proposals are realistic and
JORDAN HENDERSON is hoping his performance in Thursday’s friendly win over Costa Rica helped cement his place in England’s starting line-up for their World Cup opener against Tunisia.Gareth Southgate’s side fly to Russia at the start of next week to start
NORTH Yorkshire Police have unveiled their rainbow-wrapped police van which will form part of the York Pride parade today.The van, painted with the colours of the rainbow flag, is a fully-operational police vehicle which will attend incidents, but will
New staffA SPECIAL open day to recruit more staff to Hambleton District Council’s waste and street scene team has found three new employees. The council recently opened the doors to its Darlington Road depot in Northallerton to allow anyone interested
A MEMORIAL to a policeman who was stabbed through the heart after stopping to help a teenage hitchhiker looks likely to finally be erected, 41 years after his death.Plans have been submitted for a Balmoral stone memorial with gold lettering to be placed
A TEAM of archaeologists have pieced together the stories of Scottish soldiers found in a mass grave for a new exhibition. Using cutting-edge technology, they have been able to find out about the lives of the men whose skeletons were discovered
A TEAM of crime-fighters are to climb the three highest peaks of Scotland, England and Wales in 24 hours for a suicide prevention charity.The nine-strong squad, mostly from Chester-le-Street CID, will take on the gruelling challenge in memory of former
BILLINGHAM Forum was the latest place to be visited as the RAF 100 Baton Relay tours around the country.After arriving on a number of superbikes, RAF members from different regiment’s ice hockey teams took to the ice in order to complete 100 laps to tie
A TEENAGER has appeared in court in connection with robberies at two town centre phone shops. The 16-year-old boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, appeared at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court yesterday. He faced two charges of
A FEUD between Stockton Borough Council and Yarm Town Council has intensified after Yarm's clerk accused the borough's chief executive of 'prodding' him after a heated meeting. Yarm Town Council chair Peter Monck submitted an official complaint
A CHARITY is warning North-East customers to be extra vigilant when buying electrical goods online. Electrical Safety First has found that one in four residents in the North-East unknowingly buy counterfeit electricals from popular sites such as Amazon
A 24-HOUR relay is taking place next week to raise money for a charity supporting mental health projects.Run to the Sun, which takes place every June, raises money for Durham-based charity RT Projects. This year’s event takes place from 12pm on Saturday
Vintage displayTHE Speakeasy in Chester Street, Bishop Auckland, is transforming itself into a 1940s bar from 3pm to 11pm today as part of Bishop Auckland’s 1940s Weekend. The Smokehouse Railway Street are creating food inspired by the ear for the event
A VILLAGE which lost its post office more than a year ago is getting a new one. The post office in Wheatley Hill closed last February, with customers having to use a mobile service run by the postmaster from Sherburn instead. The branch will
A PUB is holding a fundraising night in aid of one of its regulars who died while on holiday. Talented young footballer Daniel Sirrell, from Peterlee, died in Amsterdam after falling in a canal. The 21-year-old died on Sunday, May 20 and his
PROTESTORS opposed to the creation of an opencast coalmine in North-East countryside have vowed to fight on, despite failing the block the development at the 11th hour.Durham County Council has said Banks Group has now activated the existing planning
PUPILS at a Newton Aycliffe school have been sharing their experience of university-style learning with an MP.Sedgefield MP Phil Wilson visited Year 5 and 6 children at Sugar Hill Primary School this week to hear about their progress with the The Scholars
PATIENTS desperately waiting for a heart transplant are benefitting from ground-breaking technology being used to keep a donor heart beating for up to eight hours.Surgeons at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital are now able to use the ex-vivo perfusion system
DEVANTE RODNEY is ready to reject the offer of a new deal at Hartlepool United. And Pools are likely to come up against him next season with Salford City his most likely destination.The newly-promoted National League North champions have already signed
