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Fresh calls to reopen Bishop Auckland A&E department 13 YEARS after closure

Bid to reopen Bishop Auckland A&E department 13 YEARS after closure
Dehenna Davison MP has launched a bid to reopen the A&E department at Bishop Auckland hospital after it closed 13 years ago.

Darlington confirms it WILL bid to host the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023

Darlington confirms it WILL bid to host the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023

Conservative Party hustings take place at the Hippodrome theatre in Darlington. Picture: CHRIS BOOTH

Rishi Sunak vs Liz Truss: Five things we learnt from Darlington leadership debate

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss during a hustings event in Darlington this evening

LIVE: Darlington hosts Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss leadership hustings debate

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss clash over cost-of-living at Darlington debate

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss clash over cost-of-living at Darlington debate

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have arrived in Darlington for tonight's hustings event amid shock warning that energy bills could top £4,200 in the new year.

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Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss arrive at Hippodrome for Darlington hustings

Rishi Sunak at an event in Ribble Valley, as part of the campaign to be leader of the Conservative Party and the next prime minister. Picture: PA

Rishi Sunak responds after controversial “deprived urban areas” funding comment

The forecasted rises in fuel bills is like a

Rise in energy bills 'time bomb waiting to explode' for North East families

Consumer champion Martin Lewis has urged Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to put the Tory leadership contest aside to help households Pictures: PA

Martin Lewis issues warning to Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss ahead of Darlington hustings

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak will come up against each other in another hustings showdown in front of Conservative party members as the pair visit the region for the first time on their UK tour
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Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to go head to head in Darlington hustings tonight

Protesters have gathered outside the Hippodrome where Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are due to take part in a hustings event in Darlington

Protesters gather outside Darlington Hippodrome ahead of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss hustings

Raab said limited tax cuts would do little for the most vulnerable (PA)

Liz Truss's tax-cutting plans risk 'electoral suicide' says Dominic Raab

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss set for levelling up scrutiny in Darlington debate

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss set for levelling up scrutiny in Darlington debate

RSPB calls for 'urgent investigation' and stop to dredging after sea life deaths

RSPB calls for 'urgent investigation' and stop to dredging after sea life deaths

Joseph Swan and a lightbulb

PREMIUM Switched on by Rishi's lightbulb moment

Rishi Sunak and Ben Houchen at a campaign event on Teesside last month. Picture: PA

Ben Houchen defends Rishi Sunak after 'awkward' video surfaces

Rishi Sunak speaking at the event in Kent

Rishi Sunak made 'weird and dumb' claims he diverted public funds from ‘deprived urban areas’

Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, during the Bank of England's financial stability report press conference, at the Bank of England, London. Picture date: Thursday August 4, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story ECONOMY Rates. Photo credit should

THE ECHO SAYS... Politicians go absent at time of crisis

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves gives an outside interview as she arrives at BBC Broadcasting House in London, to appear on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday Morning. Picture date: Sunday March 20, 2022..

OPINION: RACHEL REEVES How Truss has revealed her true Tory colours

Covid-19 rule breaches behind nearly 1,000 school exclusions

Three kids booted out of North East schools for 'breaking' Covid rules

Kids kicked out of class over drugs, booze, weapons and sexual misconduct

Kids kicked out of class over drugs, booze, weapons and sexual misconduct

Newcastle is in the running to be the home of Great British Railways. Picture: NQ STAFF

Great British Railways' new HQ 'must be based in the North East' campaigners say

Manchester City's Erling Haaland and Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold taking a knee before the FA Community Shield (PA)

Premier League players to no longer take knee before every match this season

Fishermen staged a protest in the River Tees in May. Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

Measures in place to prevent further fishermen protests on River Tees

Liz Truss. Picture: PA

Tory leadership hopeful's commitment to levelling up in question after pay row

Devolution deal signed by officials at the National Railway Museum in York

York will not be junior partner to North Yorkshire in new deal, Minister says

Left to right: Anthony Hewitt, assistant director for transport and capital projects; Cllr Jonathan Dulston, leader of Darlington Borough Council and Councillor Andy Keir, cabinet member for local services

How Darlington could be transformed as it bids for £20m in levelling up funding

Conservative leadership hopeful Liz Truss. Picture: PA

Liz Truss forced into U-turn saying 'levelling down' pay cut plans were 'misinterpreted'

Archive image of Ben Houchen and Liz Truss in 2018. Picture: NQ STAFF

Tees Valley Mayor left 'speechless' by Liz Truss' 'levelling down' plans

Applications are now open to join an independent panel on North Yorkshire councillors’ pay and expenses

Here's how you can influence councillors' pay and expenses

Liz Truss has been slammed for her plans to

Liz Truss slammed for plans to "level down" by cutting North East workers' pay

Conservative leadership candidate Liz Truss. Picture: Owen Humphreys/ PA Wire

THE ECHO SAYS... Liz Truss has just lost the north with here "horrifically bad" plan to level down

The existing bungalows on Commercial St Picture: Google

Asbestos filled 'prefabs' to be demolished but people want to save them

Councillor Carl Les says the devolution deal will bring real benefits to North Yorkshire

Government set to sign major deal for this council - bringing NINE-FIGURE sum with it

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, and a part of the 'dangerous' image of Rishi Sunak stabbing Boris Johnson which she shared

Tory row as Nadine Dorries shares 'dangerous' image of Sunak stabbing Johnson

child fuel poverty.

OPINION: MARY KELLY FOY Labour must never fail our children in the way the Tories are

Billingham town centre

The North East town centre set to get a £6m boost to help regeneration

Rishi Sunak MP for Richmond and Peter Gibson at Darlington market where they spot the Echo's sister paper, the Darlington & Stockton Times, reporting on the new Treasury campus in the town

OPINION: PETER GIBSON Why I'm backing Rishi as our next Prime Minister

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss attempt to win over Northern voters in Leeds hustings

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss attempt to win over Northern voters in Leeds hustings

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have responded to calls from newspapers across the North, including The Northern Echo, not to

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss reveal pitch to the North East as they fight to become new PM

Rishi Sunak with Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen earlier this month

What Rishi Sunak would do for the North East if he became Prime Minister

What Liz Truss would do for the North East if she became Prime Minister

Lisa Nandy in Darlington earlier this month

What Lisa Nandy says Labour would do for the North East if they got into power

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss on the BBC leadership debate

THE ECHO SAYS... Can we trust the candidates' levelling up pledges to the north?

Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen with (in the background) Redcar and Cleveland Council leader Mary Lanigan and staff from Esh

Ben Houchen criticised over his attendance at scrutiny meetings

Councillor Carl Les has repeatedly emphasised the county has no right to devolution and that North Yorkshire and York have had to develop a case for the government giving up some of its powers

Hope that region's devolution deal is agreed soon after 20-months of discussion

Sedgefield constituency MP Paul Howell

PAUL HOWELL MP The best for Sedgefield: why I'm backing Rishi Sunak to be the next PM

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss taking part in the BBC Tory leadership debate, Our Next Prime Minister Picture: PA

Northern MPs clash on Levelling Up pledges to the region

Liz Truss and Rushi Sunak during The Sun's Showdown: The Fight for No10, the latest head-to-head debate for the Conservative Party leader candidates, at TalkTV's Ealing Studios, west London

TalkTV/Sun Tory leadership debate with Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak taken off air after 'crash' in studio

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak on the debate set with the BBC's Sophie Raworth

THE ECHO SAYS... Is Rishi too eager to be Prime Minister?

Liz Truss and Rushi Sunak during latest head-to-head debate for the Conservative Party leader candidates. Picture: PA

Why Talk TV Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak debate was pulled off air after ‘medical issue’

Our message to Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss - Don't turn your back on the North

'Don't turn your back on the North' - Northern Echo joins campaign urging PM candidates to deliver on levelling up

What time is Rishi Sunak v Liz Truss TV debate and where can I watch it?

What time is Rishi Sunak v Liz Truss TV debate and where can I watch it?

Grahame Morris MP, inset, is calling for an investigation if the incorrect burial of Tom Bell is found not to be a one off. Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

Calls for investigation after Durham family discover someone else was buried in dad's grave