The renovation project is funded using money from the Towns Fund – a £23.3m project funded by the government that aims to restore and rejuvenate key parts of Darlington. The wider Northgate project ...

Plans for a HMO in Durham have been refused by the council in the same week that two other HMOs were approved in the area.

Irish actor Brendan O’Carroll has apologised over a “clumsy” joke where a “racial term was implied” during rehearsals for the upcoming Christmas special of Mrs Brown’s Boys.

The Welsh actor has been named as the host of Destination X, a reality competition series based on an award-winning Belgian ...

The TV star said he ‘genuinely fell in love with dancing’ so will continue dance training after his operations.

Shadow Cabinet Office minister John Glen said Labour frontbenchers have been “beset by a series of scandals” involving freebies, as he asked several questions about the Government’s approach to ...

Two construction students from Nigeria have broadened their career ambitions after completing summer work placements on key regeneration projects in the Tees Valley. Seun Olowomuwagun and Elijah ...

The former landlord of The Fox Hall Inn, on the A66 at East Layton, Richmond, has explained why he took a step back from the venue.

The rumour that police will not prosecute the shoplifting of goods under £200 is ‘simply untrue’, a police and crime commissioner has said.

A prison holding Gary Glitter and hundreds of other sex offenders is failing to challenge their criminal behaviour, a watchdog warned. Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor said there were ...

There is an “urgent need for a rapid turnaround” of England’s health watchdog owing to “significant failings” in how it works, according to a damning review. The final report of senior NHS leader Dr ...

Jones rigorously dismissed suggestions she was made to feel ‘uncomfortable or offended’, describing claims as ‘total nonsense’.