A cordon is currently in place on Spennmoor High Street outside the Quinn's Inn pub, B&H Jewellers and Ells beauty salon. Follow our live ...

The publisher of the Daily Mail has agreed a £500 million deal to buy Telegraph Media Group. Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) agreed to purchase the Telegraph from Redbird IMI after an attempted ...

Boris Johnson has dismissed the inquiry report that found chaos in his government, and that a failure to take Covid-19 seriously cost 23,000 lives in the pandemic’s first wave, as “muddled”. The Covid ...

A decision on the future of a huge arena and conference centre planned for the Gateshead Quayside will not be made until next year.

Pop star Olly Murs has announced he is retiring from music, revealing his eighth album will be his last. Taking to Instagram on Friday morning (November 21), Murs told fans: "Murs army, morning! Yes ...

Lucy Pittaway, an artist who has seven galleries across the North-East, North Yorkshire and the Lake District, has revealed her new collection.

Call the Midwife has shared an exciting update with fans on the BBC show's future. The drama set in Poplar, London, first aired on the BBC in 2012 and was originally based on the books by Jennifer ...

Robert James Purkiss, 38, appeared in a London court earlier this month to declare he does not consent to his extradition to the African nation, after the Kenyan director of public prosecutions said ...

More than 300 children and 12 teachers have been abducted by gunmen during an attack on St Mary’s School in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said.

Three North East postcodes have won thousands of pounds in the postcode lottery over the last week. Check to see if you (or your neighbours!) ...

Plans to split Darlington’s historic Binns building into six separate shops in a bid to “keep options open” for the future have been approved.

A Stanley who man left a passerby with a fractured skull after punching him in a totally unprovoked attack at York Railway Station has been jailed.