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

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a facility that produces nuclear material and called for bolstering the country ...

Milky Way Crispy Rolls have been absent from UK supermarkets for three years but have been brought back after much demand ...

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 ...

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 ...

The three junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as Ecowas, the body said.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

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

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

The Israeli prime minister will be the first foreign leader to visit Washington in Mr Trump’s second term in office.

Construction has begun on Riverside Park in Sunderland city centre, a key feature of the Riverside Sunderland development project, one of the ...

England captain Heather Knight says having a “point to prove” could be the factor that helps the Three Lions bounce back from a string of losses and avoid a total Ashes whitewash. Starting on Thursday ...

Several people were feared dead and many more injured in a stampede early on Wednesday as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river at the massive Maha Kumbh festival in ...