Water companies United Utilities and South West Water have said they will raise dividends to shareholders as they confirmed consumer bill increases of 32% and 23%, respectively, over the coming five ...

Alison Hitchcock, co-founder of From Me To You Letters, has created a 24-hour letter writing marathon to mark World Cancer ...

Plans for a house in multiple occupation (HMO) in a County Durham village have been approved by the council. The property, 50 Newton Drive in Framwellgate Moor, will become a small HMO after proposals ...

A top end drug dealer, involved in supposedly covert phone chats to source, buy and sell “vast” amounts of cocaine and cannabis, has been ...

Tees, near Darlington, has been transformed into a new wedding venue following a £2 million refurbishment funded ...

The three junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as Ecowas, the body said. It is the culmination of a year-long process ...

Stargazers across the North East have their telescopes at the ready to capture a rare 'planet parade' event next month.

Plans to convert a Darlington house into a HMO have been submitted to the council, weeks after similar plans were withdrawn due to a ...

Looking back at the special memories created during last week’s Dementia’s Got Talent show at Darlington Hippodrome – the world’s ...

MICHAEL Carrick knows what Middlesbrough captain Jonny Howson is going through right now. Howson has been a driving force for Boro since joining the club in 2017 and has racked up more than 300 ...

A Barnard Castle businessman who launched a campaign of stalking and abuse towards a man he accused of burgling his home has landed himself in court.

A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has revealed that one in three North East children are living in poverty ...