Tributes have been paid to Leyton Orient manager Justin Edinburgh, who has died at the age of 49 after suffering a cardiac arrest. The former Tottenham defender was taken to hospital on Monday, just weeks after guiding Orient to promotion back to
THE SHADOW attorney general has called for more affirmative action in the struggle for women's rights. Baroness Shami Chakrabarti was addressing a small but enthusiastic crowd that braved the rain to support the Durham’s Women's Gala on Saturday
A COMMITTEE of MPs is to launch an inquiry into the steel industry following the collapse of one of the biggest companies in the sector. The move by the Business Committee follows the recent liquidation of British Steel and concerns about the impact
GATESHEAD have been placed in National League North next season. The Heed have suffered turmoil off the pitch and were last month suspended by the National League for the 2019/20 campaign after multiple breaches of league rules. The very existence
Life as a jockey is inevitably a mixture of ups and downs. On the one hand this week, Danny Tudhope reached 1000 winners, which is a serious achievement. He deserved all of the attention that he got and he is already enjoying another really successful
The Seaham Food Festival has been cancelled on Saturday due to the 'horrendous' weather, but will be back on Sunday, organisers have announced. A Durham County Council spokesperson said: "Organisers of Seaham Food Festival have taken the very difficult
A ROAD has been closed due to flooding following heavy rain overnight. The junction of Bruce Crescent and Winterbottom Avenue in Hartlepool is closed, and motorists are being urged to avoid the area. Durham Regatta: Today's races cancelled
ORGANISERS of the Durham Regatta have cancelled racing on Saturday and Sunday due to the amount of rainfall overnight, it has been announced. Durham Regatta spokesman Colin Lawson previously said racing would be cancelled on Saturday and they would
Earlier in the week we highlighted the chance of Prejudice (2.10) in the opening 12f Handicap at Haydock Park this afternoon, suggesting the 6/1 available with BetVictor was too big a price. Only six go to post for today’s prize and the brother
MARTIN DUBRAVKA has distanced himself from speculation linking him with a possible move away from Newcastle United and expressed his satisfaction about his season-and-a-half on Tyneside. Dubravka’s performances last season were a key factor in
A CARE home threw a special party to help one of its residents mark her 100th birthday. Queenie Jones was joined by friends and family at Sandringham Care Home, in Bishop Auckland, for the celebration. Mrs Jones, nee Flemming, was born in Dawson
A TEN-year-old charity champion is the first winner of a new awards scheme launched by the police to recognise special young people. Schoolboy Ethan Fletcher was named Barnard Castle Neighbourhood Policing Team’s first Young Heroes Award winner,
THE 9th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry made it off Gold Beach on D-Day, having jettisoned the bikes they were supposed to be pedalling into the French countryside. Part 1: The story of D-Day from the Durham who was there Part 2: All hell let
THIS week's D-Day special brought back memories for Margaret Littlefair who has lived all of her life in the Teesdale village of Hilton, between Staindrop and Ingleton. “We were on a farm, and the soldiers used to often come on manoeuvres, shooting
SPONSORED CONTENT THE Hoppings, Europe’s biggest and best travelling funfair, will return to the Town Moor, Newcastle, for the 137th time from 21st to 29th June - it is not to be missed! Whether you want to ‘waltzer’ your way through the night
DARLINGTON College is hosting a higher education event designed to help students secure the skills they will need to boost future prosperity in the Tees Valley. The site will offer an insight into how people can improve their existing qualifications
MUCH else may be on the rocks, but British ice hockey has rarely been in a better place. Helped by Robert Dowd and Ben O’Connor – good North-East lads – the GB national team has just confounded all expectations by securing its place in the world elite
YOUTH disorder is being tackled with a new initiative set to reassure residents. A new initiative aimed at tackling the behaviour of youngsters in North Tyneside has taken place. The project follows a small number of incidents in the north west
AN INTERNATIONAL day of music will see the town join thousands of places from across the globe in one large music festival. Darlington will be taking part in this year's Make Music Day on June 21. Held every year on the summer solstice, Make
A NEW prize has been awarded to a law student in honour of a former lecturer. The Leo Blair Prize for student advocacy was named for the former criminal law lecturer at Durham University, who kindled a passion for advocacy in successive generations
IT must be half a century, almost to the minute, and more of minutes anon, since last I covered a council meeting beneath the stained glass dome of Spennymoor town hall. It might have been another fifty years, come to think, but for the marvellous
A DISABLED duck is back on her feet after overcoming the odds two weeks after a vet told a school to euthanise her Jimmy the female duck has battled back from pneumonia, but was left with a lame right leg and close to death – despite antibiotics
SPENNYMOOR Town will be playing on a Football League quality surface in next season’s National League North campaign. The club has been plagued with pitch issues for the last two years, forcing postponements and depleting the quality of the surface
THE future of a community fruit project is uncertain as it is losing both of its bases in the space of a few months. Fruitful Durham, which started as a project turning waste apples into juice, expanded in 2017 when it took over the walled garden
A TRIO of talented swimmers have picked up medals in the North East Regional Long Course Swimming Championships. The Open Championships were held in Sheffield and are for swimmers aged 15 & above. In her first year as an Open swimmer, Harriet Rogers
AN exceptionally talented 17-year-old Ripon Grammar School student blew away the competition at a prestigious regional cycling championships. Abi Smith won both the junior and women’s titles to be crowned Yorkshire champion, but also was the overall
TOURIST attractions and leisure businesses across North Yorkshire have been boosted by a record-breaking year for visitors to the region. The latest figures show 1.39 million international visitors were welcomed to Yorkshire in 2018, which is an
JOHN PETER ASKEW is an artist who uses a camera to see the world. He began to make photographs when studying at Sunderland University, and since graduating he has shown in many of the most important galleries and festivals across Europe. His exhibition
COMEDIANS well-versed in entertaining audiences for television shows and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival will be bringing their wit and humour to the upcoming Darlington Comedy Festival. The annual event was first held in 2011 and has seen dozens
“SHILDON is one of the ugliest places on the earth’s fair surface,” said The Northern Echo on November 8, 1875, with a turn of phrase that will not have endeared it to many living in the paper’s heartlands. “It was once a swamp, the malaria from
A DENTAL practice in Stanley has beaten competition from across the UK to be crowned Dental Team of the Year 2019. Honour Health, based on Front Street in Stanley, has won the accolade at the prestigious Dental Awards in Birmingham. The award
TWENTY talented musicians of all ages have gathered at a North-East cultural centre for a celebration of one of the oldest instruments in classical music. Players from across the country congregated at Ushaw Historic House for a special event weekend
MORE than £2,000 was raised by Tour de Yorkshire supporters in Bedale who created 300 special bikes to help decorate surrounding towns and villages. The cut out bikes which sold for a minimum of £15 each were created by Dave Allison and sold by
THE second of two extensions have been opened as part of the continuous improvement of a farm-based children’s nursery in Richmondshire. A new washroom, including two toilets, have been built in the pre-school room at High Bank Day Nursery in Stapleton
A DEVELOPER has submitted an application to build 70 homes on the outskirts of a village. Persimmon Homes is seeking to develop the site off Station Road, Coxhoe, where outline permission for 50 homes was granted in 2016. The company is proposing
A 99-YEAR-OLD who dedicated his life to education after surviving more than three years as a prisoner of war has been awarded a British Empire Medal. Len Gibson, from West Herrington, near Houghton-le-Spring, survived the notoriously tough conditions
A TEESSIDE firm has been fined more than £19,000 after travellers reported 'odours' during maintenance works in 2018. BioConstruct NewEnergy Ltd of Imperial Avenue in Middlesbrough appeared at Teesside Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (June 7). Other
POLICE officers and staff have been commended for going beyond the call of duty. Chief Constable and Judge’s Commendations were presented at a ceremony at Durham police headquarters, by outgoing chief Mike Barton. Eight officers and a special
AMID the glorious plains of Bishop Auckland Golf Club there’s a Texas scramble and shotgun start, appropriate because the day’s beneficiary is himself Texan. But why a Texas scramble? None knows. “Back home we just call it a scramble,” says James
ATHLETES from a North-East kettlebell club have returned from the European Championships in Germany with a bunch of medals. Four competitors from the Tu Nova Kettlebell Club in Darlington flew to Stolberg last weekend and returned with nine medals
A PRIMARY school mentor has been praised for saving a toddler's life when he was choking on a coin. Caron Harrison, 54, a learning mentor at Beech Grove Primary in Middlesbrough, was in school the day before Autumn term started when Kirsty Nicholas
BUYERS who fancy owning a little piece of local history might well find themselves falling in love with Tower House for two reasons: its characterful accommodation and interesting past. A significant landmark in Lartington, Tower House – an iconic
